Unit 2 Witnessing time

Welcome to the unit

Teaching aims:

After learning this section, the students will be able to get more information about a lot of World Heritage Sites and become more aware of the need to preserve the cultural heritages. Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Leading in and brainstorming

1. Lead in by asking the question:

What can witness time?

Possible answers:

1) the precious antiques; 2) the historical Documents (历史文献); 3) the historic sites

(PPT5 在学生回答完上面问题后，呈现这些答案进行简单归纳。)

Show students an example: the picture of Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum and Terra-cotta Army (PPT6 呈现这张图片举例说明historic sites , 并导入下文。)

2. Have them try to think of some more famous Chinese historic sites with the following

question:

Can you name some famous Chinese historic sites you are familiar with?

Possible answers: The Great wall; The Palace Museum; Zhoukoudian: Home of the Peking Man; The Mogao Grottoes at Dunhuang; The Huangshan Mountain; Huanglong; Qufu, Confuc ius’Mansion, Temple and Cemetery; Ancient Buildings on the Wudang Mountain;

Potala Palace … ) （PPT7-PPT9）

Step 2 Reading and exchanging information

Lead in by asking: Do you know some historic sites in other countries?

Have you heard of them before? (PPT10)

Divide the students into four groups. Give one group a paper which has the information about two world heritage sites, getting them to know some background information about them. Each group has different sites. When reading, try to follow the following questions:

1. What is the Chinese name?

2. When and where was…built？

3. What was it used for?

4. Can you tell us more about it? (PPT11)

After reading, get them to exchange the information about the heritage sites according one or two of the questions. （PPT14-25）

Before exchanging information, give them an example about the Colosseum. (PPT12-13)

1. What’s the Chinese name?