Teaching plan

Module Six

Old and New

Teaching Aims:

1. Knowledge and Skill

1. Talk about the great building projects in world history.
2. Write a news bulletin about changes that have taken place in your region.
3. Grasp the usage of some adjectives to express their strong feelings.
4. To get them familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of the Three Gorges Dam
5. Understand and grasp the usage of Non-defining relative clauses and contraction of relative clauses.

2.Emotion and Values

1. 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.
2. To make them know something about their hometown and cultivate their feelings of loving the place where they were born

3. Cross-cultural awareness:

1. 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
2. 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:

1. To help them know more about the Three Gorges Dam and know the importance of the western development of their motherland.
2. 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.

3. Master the usage of Non-defining relative clauses and contraction of relative clauses.

Teaching Method:

1. Task-based methodology
2. 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

Writing

Teaching Procedures:

Period 1

Step 1. Warming up

1. Brainstorming

 Q1.Can you think of some famous big projects in China？

Q2.What should be taken into consideration when a big project is planned？

Some possible answers：

Q1.（1）the Great Wall

（2）the Grand Canal

（3）Qin Shihuang Terracotta Warriors

（4）the Summer Palace

（5）the Three Gorges Dam

Q2.（1）aim

（2）environment

（3）pollution

（4）how it will affect local people

（5）advantages and disadvantages

2. Lead-in

Work in pairs. Discuss these questions with you partner.

Q1. How far is the Great Wall of China from where you live?

Q2. Which is the biggest airport in the country?

Q3. Is there a dam near your town?

Q4. Do you know the name of the reservoir that provides water for your town?

Step 2. Reading

Read the passage and answer the following questions.

Q1. How long was the original Great Wall of China?

Q2. Where does the wall start and end now?

Q3. How many passengers is the Chek Lap Kok Airport designed to accommodate a year?

Q4. What’s the length of the reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam?

Q5. Have you ever visited any of the places in the passage?

Q6. Which one is the nearest to your town or city?

Q7. What other things do you know about them?

Suggested answers:

1. 6300 kilometres long.
2. the easteren end of the wall is at Shanhaiguan. In the west, it ends near the town of Jaiyuguan.
3. 80 million passengers a year.
4. more than 500 kilometres long.
5. Open.
6. Open.
7. Open.

Step 3 Speaking

Work in groups of four. Discuss the following questions.

1. The Three Gorges Dam has caused the disappearance of many towns and villages. What do you think about this?
2. Has the Three Gorges Dam affected the lives of people in your area or anyone you know?

Homework:

1. Search more information about the Three Gorges Dam from the Internet.
2. Preview the passage The Three Gorges Dam.

Period 2

Step 1. Revision

Complete the description with these words.

wonderful; cliffs; river; gorge; sites submerged; relics; lake

 The Three Gorges

The Yangtze River, which flows for 6,380 km, is the longest        in China. The most beautiful part was the Three Gorges. The Qutang Gorge, which was only 8 kilometres long, was famous for its high        . Wu Gorge, which was 44 km long, was known for its         scenery and quiet beauty. The famous Xiling, which was the longest and most dangerous        , had many historical        with ancient         . This part of the Yangtze River was            forever in the artificial       behind the Three Gorges Dam.

Suggested answers:

1. river   2. cliffs  3. gorge   4. relics   5. sites   6. lake

Step 2. Pre-reading

1. Brainstorming

Answer the following questions?

1. How much do you know about the Three Gorges Dam?
2. Do you think the advantages are more important than the disadvantages?

b. Vocabulary Learning

Choose the correct answer with the definition provided.

1. A long narrow stretch of water that has been made for boats to travel along or to bring water to a particular area.

A、canal       B、dam       C、 cliff

2. A lake that is used for storing water before it is supplied for people.

A、River    B、 gorge   C、  reservoir  

3. If you want to bring a natural energy resource under your control and use it, which word should you use?

A、Construct   B、 harness    C、generate

4. Something made in an early period and kept to the present is called a ____.

A、Souvenir      B、 dynasty      C、 relic  

5. A ____ is where vehicles, passengers, or goods begin or end a journey.

A、terminal      B、historical      C、 civil

6. A high area of land with a very steep edge, especially next to the sea.

A、Dam           B、gorge            C、 cliff  

Suggested answers:

1. A  2. C   3. B   4. C   5. A   6. C

Step 3. While-reading

a. Skimming and scanning.

Read the passage quickly, and then choose the best answers.

1.Who dreamed of harnessing the power of the Yangtze River?

    A. Sun Yat-sen        B. Mao Zedong

    C. Deng Xiaoping         D. A great designer

2.How many tons of coal was used for heating and generating electricity in 1993?

   A. 1.2 billion     B. 20 billion

   C. 40  billion     D. About 800 billion

3. What problem does burning coal cause?

1. Air pollution.
2. Increasing global warming.
3. Destroying the balance of nature.
4. Both A and B.

4. Which of the following famous historical sites is NOT mentioned in the passage?

1. The Qu Yuan Temple.
2. The Han Watchtower.
3. The Grand Canal.
4. The Moya Cliff carving.

Suggested answers:

1. B  2. A  3. D  4. C

2. Fast-reading

Read the passage silently and quickly, and decide whether the following statements are true or false.

1. Mao Zedong once dreamed that there would be a great dam to harness the power of the Yangtze River.

2 .The Three Gorges Dam will provide enough hydro-electric power for the whole country.

3.The dam will generate a lot electricity causing much less air pollution.

4.A large number of historical relics have been damaged because of the dam.

Suggested answers:

1. T  2. F  3. T   4. F

3. Detailed reading

Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions.
Q1. what is the dream of Mao Zedong?

Q2. Why was the Three Gorges Dam built?

Q3. What is the size of the Three Gorges Dam?

Q4. Who first suggested the idea of a dam across the Yangtze River?

Q5. What is the advantage of the Three Gorges Dam?

Q6. What happened after the reservoir built?

Q7. How are people in different areas?

Q8. What has happened to the historical sites?

Q9. How should we protect and save the relics?

Q10. Why has Mao Zedong’s dream come true?

Q11. What are the three biggest construction projects in China until now?

Q12. What are the disadvantages of burning coal?

Q13. What about the inhabitants who lived in that area before?

Q14. What happened to the historical relics?

Q15. Who was Sun Yat-sen?

Suggested answers:

1. “Walls of stone to hold back clouds and rain till a smooth lake rises in the narrow gorges”
2. To control flooding and provide hydro-electric power
3. The dam is nearly 200 meters high and 1.5 kilometers wide.
4. Sun Yat-sen suggested the idea in 1919.
5. To generate heat and electricity and prevent air pollution and help reduce the global warming  
6. The reservoir has flooded 2 cities, 11 cities, 140 towns and more than 4000 villages.
7. They are living a happy new life in different areas.
8. Many historical relics and historical sites were flooded and have been submerged.
9. Some of them are being removed and some are being put into museum.

10. 1,3,5

    Because the Three Gorges Dam has been built and the power of the Yangtze River has been harnessed.
11. The Great Wall, the Grand Canal and the Three Gorges Dam.
12. Burning coal wastes much energy, causes serious air pollution and increases global warming.
13. More than a million people have moved from their home and are living a happy new life now.
14. About 800 have been submerged. Only some are being removed and some are being put into museums.
15. He was the leader of the 1911 Revolution and the first person who suggested the idea of a dam across the Yangtze River in 1919.

Step 4. Post-reading

a. Read the passage again and choose the best answers.

1. According to this passage, the word “harnessed” means _______

 A. equipped   B. controlled to produce  electricity

 C. fasten     D. saddle        

2._______ of china’s energy is produced by others, except for burning coal, according to this passage.

 A. 1/3         B. 2/3          C. 3/5         D. 1/4

Which of the following statements are Not true according to this passage.

1. ¾ of China’s energy is produced by burning coal.
2. Over a million people have moved.
3. Around 800 historical relics have been flooded.
4. The dam caused much air pollution.

Suggested answers:

B D D

b. Read the passage again and write questions for the answers.

1 Why _____________________________?To control flooding and provide hydroelectric power.

2 How high________________?Two hundred meters.

3 How ______________________?One and a half kilometers.

4 Who _________________________________________________  ?  Sun Yat-sen.

5 How much ________________________________________ Three quarters.

6 How many _______________________________________ ? Four thousand.

Suggested answers:
1. was the Three Gorges Dam built

1. is the dam
2. wide is the dam
3. first suggested the idea of a dam across the Yangtze River
4. of China's energy is produced by burning goal
5. villages were flooded when the dam was built

Step 5 Language Explanations:

【词条1】work out

【课文原句】   

 Try to work out what kind of word it is. (Page 52)

【点拨】work out 在此句中意为“弄清楚、理解，看懂”。整句话意为“设法弄清楚它是什么词类”。如：

Please look at the two pictures closely, and try to work out their differences.

【词条2】date from

【课文原句】

Most of the Great Wall dates from the Ming Dynasty. （Page 51）

【点拨】

date from 相当于date back to, 意为“起源于，始于”，这个短语无被动语态，且常用于一般现在时。如：

These old buildings possibly date from the 13th century.

【词条3】hold back

【课文原句】

“Walls of stone to hold back clouds and rain …”   (Page 53)

【点拨】该句为毛泽东的一句名诗，意为“更立西江石壁，截断巫山云雨”。hold back此处意为“阻止，阻挡”。如：

The villagers built dams to hold back the flood waters.

 No one can hold back the wheel of history.

【词条4】make sense

【课文原句】

If you take away the relative clauses, do the sentences still make sense?   (Page 54)

【点拨】

make sense 此处意为“有意义，讲得通”，主语常是物。如：

What he said just now doesn’t make sense at all.

【词条5】suggest

【课文原句】   

Sun Yat-sen, who was the leader of the 1911 Revolution, first suggested the idea of a dam across the Yangtze River in 1919.   (Page 53)

【点拨】suggest在此处意为“提出，建议”，常用搭配为：suggest + sth / doing sth。该句意为“1911年辛亥革命的领导人孙中山于1919年首先提出了在长江上建造大坝的设想”。如：

She suggested traveling by bus.

The teacher suggested what to do next.

【拓展】suggest后面也可跟that从句。

1. suggest当“建议”讲时， that 从句要用虚拟语气，即：suggest that sb (should) do sth。如：

She suggested that we (should) travel by bus.

2. suggest当“暗示、表明”讲时， that 从句不用虚拟语气，而要用陈述语气。如：

 The sad look on his face suggested that he was very disappointed.

【词条6】accommodate

【课文原句】

… is designed to accommodate 80 million passengers a year. (Page 51)

【点拨】accommodate 此处意为“容纳”，后面直接加表示数量的词。如：

 This hotel can accommodate up to 600 guests.

【词条7】remove

【课文原句】Some of them are being removed and some are being put into museums. (Page 53)

【点拨】remove此处意为“移走，移开”，整句意为“它们中有一些被移走，还有一些被放进了博物馆”。如：

The cars which are parked there will be removed.

【拓展】remove sth / sb from sb / sth 把……移走；从……开除。如：

Three children were removed from the school for their bad behavior.

He removed his hand