Teaching Aims:
1. Master the following words and expressions:
restore, replace, recreate, in ruins, under attack, give in ,in pieces, bring…back to life, come true
2. Improve the Ss’ reading ability.
3. Enable the Ss to be aware of the significance of protecting cultural relics.
Teaching key points:
How to improve the Ss’ reading ability.
Teaching difficult points:
1. How to grasp the main idea of a paragraph.
2. How to guess the meaning of new word in the context.
3. How to help the Ss understand the passage deeply.
Teaching aids:
1.a tape recorder
2.a laptop and OHP(overhead projector)
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Revision and discussion
1.T shows some pictures of cultural relics in Jingmen and get them to talk about these cultural relics.
2.T shows more pictures of cultural relics in other cities such as New York, London, Beijing and help the students discuss the Qs in pre-reading.
Qs: What is your favorite city?/What are your favorite cities? Why?
Some cities are called great cities, what makes them great?
How important are the cultural relics?
Step 2 Lead-in
T shows pictures of St Petersburg and say Let’s look at some cultural relics in Russia. What can you see in the picture? (statue, a man on his horse)Do you know who may it be on the horse? (Maybe a very important person such as a king or hero) Tell Ss they are going to learn a passage called ‘a city of heroes.
Step 3 Reading
1. Fast-reading. Let Ss listen to the tape and try to find out the answers to the two Qs:
What does the city in the title refer to?
Who is the man riding the horse?
Teach the pronunciation of St Petersburg and the Russian Czar Peter the Great if necessary.
2. Intensive reading.
T shows pictures of St Petersburg in different times and get the Ss to give a title for them. In this way, Ss will know the structure of the passage .(4 parts including built, destroyed, rebuilt, today)
Para 1 The city was built
Qs: When and where was St. Petersburg built?
What kind of person was Peter the Great?
What did the palaces built look like?
Para 2 The city was destroyed
Qs: Who came to the city in 1941?
What did they do to the city?
What was the result?
What did people of the city determine to do at that time?
Para 3 The city was rebuilt
Qs: When did people begin to rebuild the city?
What did people use to help them rebuild the city?
What was difficult for the people to rebuild the city?
Is the city as beautiful as before after it was rebuilt?
Para 4 The city today
Qs: Who was the hero on his bronze horse?
Who are the modern heroes of Russia today?
3. In paragraph 4, T helps Ss have a deeper understanding of the title by comparing ‘ hero’ to ‘heroes’ ,’St Petersburg’ to ‘Peoplesburg’. If possible, ask them why St Petersburg is called ‘a city of heroes’ in order to make Ss understand the spirit of the people in St Petersburg----patience, devotion and love for cultural relics
Step 4 Practice
T ask the Ss to finish T or F exercise on their books.
T or F:
1. ( F ) The city of St Petersburg was rebuilt by Peter the Great.
2. ( F )The Germans attacked St Petersburg a hundred years ago.
3. ( T )A portait of Peter the Great was destroyed by the Germans.
4. ( T )It was difficult for people to rebuild the old palaces.
5. (T )Workers and painters used old photographs to help them rebuild the city.
6. ( F )St Petersburg will never be as beautiful as it was before.
Step 5 Interview
T gives Ss two situations and ask them to choose one of it to prepare an interview in pairs.
Situation 1: Suppose you are a foreign reporter and your partner is a citizen of St Petersburg. Prepare an interview talking about the city’s history.
Situation 2: Suppose you are Peter the Great. You come back to St Petersburg by time machine and want to know the changes of this city from your partner who is a citizen. Prepare an interview talking about the city’s development.
Step 6 Homework
T shows pictures of cultural relics in danger and ask Ss to write a passage about how to save or protect them.
Leaning Tower of Pisa( in Italy) Abu Simbel (in Egypt)
The Sphinx (in Egypt) Yuanmingyuan