Unit 4 Protecting our heritage sites Reading (II)（教学设计） I. Learning objectives By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: 1. master the following core vocabulary: awe; civilization; preserve; urgent; wear down; ruin; incredible; violence; conflict; outcome; specialist; assess; collapse; suspend; 2. understand the core vocabulary in the text; 3. use the core vocabulary in new situations; 4. analyse some complex sentences in the text. II. Key competence focus Master and use the core vocabulary in new situations. III. Predicted area of difficulty 1. Use the core vocabulary in new situations. 2. Understand some complex sentences in the text. IV. Teaching procedures Step 1 Revising the lecture transcript T: Now read through the lecture transcript carefully and complete the article. Many natural wonders and human civilization are (1)_____ (fascinate) but in danger so that UNESCO (2)_____ (struggle) to preserve them since its establishment. Heritage sites face threats (3)_____ nature and human activities. They can (4)_____ (wear) down gradually by the long-term natural forces like wind, water and temperature. Besides, great damage can be caused by wars. (5)_____ (strange) enough, many problems may be caused by World Heritage status, which (6)_____ (give) rise to floods of tourists (7)_____ make the sites suffer continuous wear and tear. What’s more, human population growth also contributes to the (8)_____ (increase) demand for production and (9)_____ (consume) of goods so many heritage sites are in danger. Such (10)_____ (danger) not only do harm to the sites but also to humans. So we should take action to protect and preserve them. 【设计意图：这是课文的缩写，是课文理解和知识运用的结合。既能督促学生再次深入课文去把握重要的细节信息，又为导入新课语言知识点的学习做好铺垫。】 Step 2 Building core vocabulary 1. T presents the core words and expressions and studies them together with Ss. (1) awe 1) n. feelings of respect and slight fear; feelings of being very impressed by sth/sb 2) v. to fill sb with aweawesome adj. very impressive or very difficult and perhaps rather frighteningawful adj. very bad awe n. awesome adj. awe n. awful adj. awfully adv. (2) civilization 1) n. a state of human society that is very developed and organized2) n. a society, its culture and its way of life during a particular period of time or in a particular part of the world3) n. all the people in the world and the societies they live in, considered as a whole civil adj. civilize v. civilization n. (3) preserve 1) v. to keep a particular quality, feature, etc.; to make sure that sth is kept 2) v. to keep sth in its original state in good condition preserve v. preservation n. reserve [r z v] v. reserved adj. reservation n.conserve [k n s v] v. conservation n. (4) urgent 1) adj. that needs to be dealt with or happen immediately2) adj. showing that you think that sth needs to be dealt with immediately urge v. & n. urgent adj. urgently adv. urgency n. (5) wear down 1) to ... ...
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