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课件网) Cultural heritage Unit 1 Listening and Speaking & Listening and Talking By the end of this period, you will be able to: 1. acquire more knowledge about Chinese cultural heritage Mount Tai by listening for the main idea and details; 2. practise using context to guess the meaning of new words; 3. listen for information about history and culture as well as present situation of the Kremlin and Red Square; 4. use functional sentences of the conversation such as “I beg your pardon, but…” “Forgive me for asking, but…” and so on to start the conversation about a new cultural site more politely and appropriately. LISTENING AND SPEAKING Have you ever been to Mount Tai Leading Peaceful Mountain/Eastern Great Mountain Enjoy a video what where who The two girls are looking for information about Mount Tai on the Internet. The two boys are taking pictures of the rock carving at Mount Tai and taking notes. In the classroom, the students are discussing Mount Tai. The girl is working on her computer. Activity 1: look at the pictures below. What are the students doing Activity 2: Listen to the conversation and choose the main idea. A. Students from different countries are working creatively to protect a temple in China. B. Youths from seven countries are working together to protect cultural relics on Mount Tai. C. Doing a project on cultural heritage protection in China is interesting and exciting. √ Youths Mount Tai protect cultural relics Activity 3: Listen again and help the reporter to complete the interview notes. International youth project, _____ high school students from 7 countries Mount Tai, one of the most _____ mountains in China It has been _____ for more than 3,000 years. 22 temples, around 1,800 _____ with writing on them Dai Temple on _____; over 6, 000 _____ 23 famous protected stones Mount Tai steps Activity 4: Practise using context clues to guess the meaning of new words. Look and fill in the blank. EXAMPLE The palace was destroyed years ago. By studying old photos of the former palace, they have made the new one look exactly like the old one. Clues: destroyed years ago; studying old photos; made the new palace like the old one Guess: The former palace means “the palace that _____”. was built before but was destroyed Activity 5: Listen again and use the context to guess the meaning of the words below. Tick the reason why you were able to guess the words. Reason Preserve Promote Cypress The word is an example of a group/type I know. The word is explained by the speaker. The word means the opposite of a word I know. The word means the same as a word I know. I know the general meaning of the word. The speaker gives an example of the word. √ √ √ For example, this game is about the six cypresses that were planted on Mount Tai during the Han Dynasty. You learn about the trees and also the life in China over 2, 000 years ago. We want to promote Mount Tai; that is, we want to t ... ...
