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Module Six Old and New Teaching Aims: 1. Knowledge and Skill a. Talk about the great building projects in world history. b. Write a news bulletin about changes that have taken place in your region. c. Grasp the usage of some adjectives to express their strong feelings. d. To get them familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of the Three Gorges Dam e. Understand and grasp the usage of Non-defining relative clauses and contraction of relative clauses. 2.Emotion and Values a. To get them familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of the Three Gorges Dam and believe that it will make a great contribution to our society and next generation. b. To make them know something about their hometown and cultivate their feelings of loving the place where they were born 3. Cross-cultural awareness: a. Know something about Chinese and foreign tallest buildings or projects and take famous construction projects as a topic to communicate with the foreign friends orally b. Understand the development and changes of our times, broaden their outlook, and strengthen the consciousness of the world and responsibilities of era. 4. Character-building: a. To help them know more about the Three Gorges Dam and know the importance of the western development of their motherland. b. To let them know the importance of cooperating with others in a group. Difficulties and Importance: a. Use the adjectives to express strong feelings freely. b. Help the students understand the text exactly and retell the text in students’ own words. c. Master the usage of Non-defining relative clauses and contraction of relative clauses. Teaching Method: a. Task-based methodology b. Communicative Approach Teaching Time: Five periods: Period 1 vocabulary and speaking Speaking Period 2 Reading and Vocabulary Period 3 Grammar 1 Non-defining relative clauses Pronunciation Period 4 Grammar 2 contraction of relative clauses. Listening and Vocabulary Period 5 Cultural corner Function and Everyday English