高中英语人教版 (2019)必修 第二册Unit 1 Cultural Heritage教案

Book II   Unit 1 Cultural Heritage

Reading and thinking From Problems to Solutions

Analysis of teaching contents

This section focuses on “Understanding how a problem was solved”, which is aimed to guide students to analyze and discuss the challenges and problems faced by cultural heritage protection during the construction of Aswan Dam, as well as the solutions. On the basis of understanding, students should pay attention to the key role of international cooperation in solving problems, and attach importance to the balance and coordination between cultural heritage protection and social and economic development. Students are encouraged to face challenges actively, be good at cooperation, and make continuous efforts to find reasonable ways and means to solve problems.

Analysis of teaching material

   The theme of this unit is about the development of languages and the learning of languages, while the theme of the reading text is about “Explore the Chinese writing system”. This text is an expository writing, which introduces the development of Chinese writing system and its influence on China’s present and the past, on Chinese culture and uniting the Chinese people and culture

Teaching aims

1. Enable students to understand the main information and text structure of the reading text.

2. Motivate students to use the reading strategy “make a timeline” according to the appropriate text genre.

3. Enable students to understand how a problem was solved.

4. Enable students to understand the value of protecting cultural heritage by teamwork and global community.

Analysis of students

   Although our students have learned English for years, they haven’t mastered some basic language points and language skills, and they can’t get some detailed information in the text. Most of them lack reading strategies like skimming, fast-reading, careful-reading and prediction. This text is aimed to guide students to analyze and discuss the challenges and problems faced by cultural heritage protection during the construction of Aswan Dam, as well as the solutions. The text can activate students to protect the cultural heritages.

Teaching methods

Communicative approach, Task-based Approach, Cooperative learning method

Teaching important and difficult points

1、Guide students to pay attention to reading strategies, such as prediction, self-questioning and skimming.

2. Help students sort out the topic language about protecting cultural relics and understand the narrative characteristics of “time-event” in illustrative style.

3. Lead students to understand the value of protecting cultural heritage by teamwork and global community.

Teaching time

   40 minutes

Teaching procedures

Lead-in

Step I Watch a video about the Terracotta.

Teaching of the new lesson

Step II Predict

1. Read the title and look at the pictures. Predict what the text is about?

The passage is about how people solved ___________of protecting

the temples and ______________while building the Aswan Dam

Step III Skim and match the main idea of each paragraph

Para 1 A. The Egyptian government asked the UN for help.

Para 2 B. The global community can help solve difficult problems.

Para 3 C. It is a big challenge to balance the progress and the protection of cultural sites.

Para 4  D. The Aswan Dam project was successfully completed.

Para 5 E. The temples and cultural relics were both rescued.

Para 6 F. The Aswan Dam project started.

Answers: Para 1 C Para 2 A   Para 3 F

Para 5 D    Para 5 B

Step IV

Careful Reading

Task 1 Read the title    From problems to solutions

What do “problems” refer to? A big challenge

1、What’s the big challenge ?

______________ the right balance between progress and the _______________ can be a big challenge.

Answer: Finding and keeping

protection of cultural sites

2、What was the Egyptian government’s problem in the 1950s?

1、wanted to __________

     in order to ________________

2、But the proposal lead to ___________

3、Because water from the dam would likely damage

__________________and ______________

Answers:

1、build a new dam

control…, produce…, supply…

2、protests

3、a number of temples

destroy cultural relics

Step V The solution of the Egyptian government’s problem

Follow these times to read the passage carefully and use the way of filling the blank to answer some questions.

1959—1960—1961—over the next 20 years--1980

1959 1、A committee was established

2、Why was the committee was        established?

In order to ____________the Egyptian buildings and prevent the loss of ___________

Answers:

limit damage to

cultural relics

1960

The work ________ .

Answer: began

1961 How were the temples and cultural sites saved?

1、__________ piece by piece

2、______    to other places

3、_________together

Answers:

1、were taken down

2、moved

3、put back

1980

The project ________.

Answer: ended

Step VI Inspiration

What’s the spirit of the Aswan Dam?

1、cultural heritage protection

2、world cooperation

Step VII Learn some information about the Shell Leaf and Shell Leaf Sutra (贝叶经)

Step VIII Discuss:

How to protect the Shell Leaf Sutra (贝叶经)

Useful words and phrases:

1、organize some study activities

2、donate more money to protecting……

3、build museum

4、give salary to some people who are working for writing

the Shell Leaf Sutra             and so on

Citizen( 公民 )

Useful words and phrases:

1、take part in       

2、study…

3、protect and plant the shell leaf 贝叶 and so on

Step IX Emotional education

It is our responsibility to value and protect the cultural

heritage in China and all over the world

as possible as we can.

Step X Summary

1、In the 1950s, the Egyptian government wanted________ ( build）to a  new dam across the Nile.

2、But the government ________ ( meet ) a problem.

3、Turned to the United Nations ___________ .

4、With the help of the people from around the world, the    government 

__________ ( solve ) the problem at last.

5、To solve a difficult problem, sometimes we need world     cooperation.

StepXI Homework

Write a passage about protecting the Shell Leaf Sutra (贝叶经)by using what you have learned in this lesson.

Step XII

Have the Ss draw a lottery.

BlackboardDesign

Unit 1 Cultural Heritage

Reading and thinking From Problems to Solutions

heritage n. 遗产

preserve vt. 保存;保护

proposal n. 提议；建议

protest n. vi& vt

抗议    committee n. 委员会

establish vt. 建立；创立

investigate vi. & vt. 调查；研究

document n. 文件;文档