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Unit1 The First Period Warming up and Reading (I) Teaching goals 教学目标 1. Target language 目标语言 a. Key words and phrases (重点词汇和短语) rare, survive, valuable, dynasty, vase, amaze, amazing, select, honey, design, fancy, style, decorate, jewel, artist, belong, troop, reception, remove, wooden, doubt, former, worth b. Key sentences (重点句型) The amber which was selected had a beautiful yellow-brown color honey. It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, which took the country’s best artists about ten years to make. Later, CatherineⅡ had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside ST Petersburg where she spent her summers. In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted. This was a time when the two countries were ay war. There is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea. After that, what really happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery. In 2003 it was ready for the people of St Petersburg when they celebrated the 300th birthday of their city. 2. Ability goals能力目标 Enable students to learn about the history of Amber Room. Enable students to give opinions on rebuilding lost cultural relics. 3. Learning ability goals学能目标 After learning this reading passage, students should have the ability of reading passages about cultural relics, learn more languages about this topic and have the sense of protecting cultural relics. Teaching important points 教学重点 The main idea of each paragraph. Teaching methods教学方法 Listening to the tape (individuals) Group discussion and presentation (cooperative learning) Multi-functional teaching equipment (CAI) Teaching aids教具准备 A recorder, a projector and some slides Multi-functional teaching equipment (CAI) Teaching procedures and ways教学过程与方式 Step I Warming up The warming-up exercise raises students awareness that there are some well-known cultural relics both at home and abroad. Ask the students to try their best to think of the cultural relics that they k