Unit 1 Cultural Heritage

Period 1 Listening and Speaking & Listening and Talking

 

【教材分析】

Listening and Speaking introduces the topic of “Take part in a youth project”.

The listening text is an interview about an international youth cultural heritage protection project. More than 20 high school students from seven countries participated in the project. The reporter interviewed two participants Stephanie and Liu Bin. By listening to the text, students can understand the significance of cultural heritage protection, and teenagers can use their knowledge, combine their own interests and advantages, etc. to participate in the action of cultural heritage protection.

Listening and Talking introduces the theme of “Talk about history and culture”.

The listening text is a dialogue between two tourists and tour guides when they visit the Kremlin, Red Square and surrounding buildings. The dialogue focuses on the functional items of “starting a conversation”, which is used to politely and appropriately attract the attention of the others, so as to smoothly start a conversation or start a new topic. The purpose of this section is to guide students to understand the history and current situation of Chinese and foreign cultural heritage in their own tourism experiences or from other people’s tourism experiences, explore the historical and cultural values, and be able to express accurately and appropriately in oral communication.

【教学目标】

1. Guide students to understand the content of listening texts in terms of the whole and key details;

2. Cultivate students’ ability to guess the meaning of words in listening; discuss with their peers how to participate in cultural heritage protection activities.

3. Instruct students to use functional sentences of the dialogue such as “I beg your pardon, but…” “Forgive me for asking, but…” and so on to start the conversation more politely and appropriately.

【教学重难点】

1. Guide students to understand the content of listening texts in terms of the whole and key details;

2. Cultivate students’ ability to guess the meaning of words in listening; discuss with their peers how to participate in cultural heritage protection activities.

3. Enable students to use the functional items of “starting a conversation”, which is used to smoothly start a conversation or start a new topic.

【教学过程】

Part 1: Listening and Speaking

Step 1: Lead in

The teacher is advised to talk about the meaning of the word “Heritage”.

Boys and girls, before our listening, let’s work in pairs and discuss the meaning of the word “Heritage”.

What does the word “heritage” mean? Share your ideas about your understanding of it and you can use examples to illustrate your meaning.

Heritage means the traditional beliefs, values, customs, etc. of a family, country or society.

For example, the Great Wall is the heritage of China.

Step 2: Prediction

After their small talk, the teacher can ask students to predict what the listening text is about by looking at the pictures.

The listening text is probably about how to protect a famous heritage site by some students.

Step 3: Summary of the main idea

Then play the radio which is about an interview about an international youth cultural heritage protection project. And after finishing listening for the first time, the students need to solve the following tasks.

1. Listen to the conversation and sum up the main idea.

Youths from seven countries are working together to protect cultural relics on Mount Tai.

2. Listen again and help the reporter to complete the interview notes.

International youth project, 23 high school students from 7 countries

Mount Tai, one of the most famous mountains in China

It has been protected for more than 3,000 years.

22 temples, around 1,800 stones with writing on them

Dai Temple on Mount Tai; over 6,000 steps

Step 4: Guessing the meaning of the unknown words

Listen to the conversation again and use the context to guess the meaning of the words below. Tell the reasons why you guess so.

Preserve: to protect

Reason: the word means the same of a word I know

Promote: to help sth to happen or develop

Reason: The word is explained by the speaker

Step 5: Speaking Project

Work in pairs or groups and role play a conversation.

Suppose you are a reporter and interviewing the students who devote their time to protecting the heritage.

Reporter: It is said that you are one of the volunteers to preserve the pine trees on Mount Huang. What are you guys doing?

Volunteer: We are making some signs which are designed to educate people to protect the pine trees.

Volunteer: Besides, we took a lot of pictures of pine trees and create an app which aims to promote people’s awareness of protecting the precious trees.

Reporter: Sounds great and anything else?

Volunteer: We often wear volunteer clothes and send some brochures in the park to call on more people to protect the trees.

Reporter: Does your hard work pay off?

Volunteer: Definitely. More and more tourists are now stopping carving names on the trees or climbing the trees.

Part 2: Listening and Talking

Step1: Listen to the tape, which is about a dialogue between two tourists and a tour guide when they visit the Kremlin, Red Square and surrounding buildings for the first time, and then ask the students to solve the following tasks.

1. Listen to the conversation and answer

(1).Where are the speakers?

On a street.

(2).What are they doing?

Sightseeing.

2. What do you know about the Kremlin and Red Square? Listen again and complete the fact sheet.

Step 2: Speaking Project

Activity 3 on page 7.

Work in groups. Choose a cultural site that you like and role-play a conversation between some tourists and their tour guide. Take turns to play the different roles.

Step 3 Homework

According to Activity 3, write down a conversation between the tourist and his/her guide.