Unit 23 Resuing the temple

教学目标

知识目标

一、教学目标与要求

　　通过本单元教学，使学生掌握有关提出建议或忠告的句型，对他人的一些具体问题提出自己的建议或忠告。阅读课文“The rescue of Abu Simbel”，让学生了解保护古迹文物的重要意义，并完成有关课文内容的练习。

二、重点与难点

　　1.重点词汇:in danger, face, date from, flood, make a good effort

　　2.重点句型

　　1).They are now at breakfast, talking about the plan for their trip.(现在分词做伴随状语)

　　2).There are plenty of interesting places to visit.(不定式做定语)

　　3).The dam, which is the biggest in the workd, is 3830 meters long. （非限定性定语从句）

　　3．语法:

　　复习非限定性定语从句。

　　4．日常交际用语

　　1).I’d prefer to do…2).I’d like to do…3).Can’t we …? 4). I think we should do that another day. 5).I think that’s a good idea. 6).How about…?

能力目标

　　1．运用有关交际用语及词汇来表达个人的愿望、想法，及提出自己的意见。

　　2．区别限定性定语从句和非限定语从句。

德育与美育目标

　　通过对Abu Simbel的挽救，激发学生热爱祖国悠久历史及灿烂文化的激情，并培养学生热爱历史文物、欣赏文物、从而保护文物的美德。

教学建议

课文分析

　　本单元的阅读是介绍阿斯旺高坝，以及由于兴建高坝而引起的拯救阿布辛波古庙的工程。阿斯旺高坝是世界上三大人造工程之一，另外两个是中国的长城和埃及的金字塔。通过本单元的学习，学生应了解保护古迹文物的重要意义。分为三部分：

Part 1 (Paragraph l ) The Aswan High Dam is one of the three biggest man-made projects in the world.

Part 2 (Paragraphs 2 -- 4) The description of the dam

　　　　(Paragraph 2) The High Dam was built for several reasons.

　　　　(Paragraph 3) The High Darn is the biggest in the world.

　　　　(Paragraph 4) There were several problems building the darn.

Part 3 (Paragraphs 5—8) The project of removing Abu Simbel

　　　　(Paragraph 5) Abu Simbel was in danger.

　　　　(Paragraph 6) The engineers decided to move the temple.

　　　　(Paragraph 7) The project lasted 4 years and cost l billion US dollars.

　　　　(Paragraph 8) The project was successfully completed.

　　本课阅读讲述了兴建高坝的原因和困难，列表如下：

Reasons

Difficulties

control the waters of the Nile

make electricity from the water

move 53,000 people from their villages

rescue the important old temples

Lesson 90 Aswan Dam 建议

　　1.给出有关埃及的地图，教师可在网上搜到地图或图片，如条件不允许可用手画。

　　The teacher tell the students today we are going to read/listen to a dialogue about Egypt. Draw a rough map of Africa on the blackboard to show the location of Egypt. And draw a rough map of Egypt to show the location of the capital Cairo, the River Nile, and Aswan in the south.

　　2.听录音,了解对话内容

　　Play the tape of the dialogue for the students to listen and repeat. Then let them practise the dialogue in pairs.

　　3．看视频，教师在播放视频过程中，让学生思考问题，给出一两道设问。

　　4．通过阅读了解本文的意思，教师通过让学生精读和阅读给学生一些设问。

　　5．教师在课堂中展示相关图片，做为拓展学生的课外知识，如尼罗河风光，埃及金字塔，阿司旺大坝纪念碑等。

　　6．教师分别给出话题，分组讨论阿旺大坝的利弊之处。教师帮助学生提供图片或相应的网站名称，最后学生给出结论，教师讲评。

语言点讲解

be covered by，be covered with

　　这两个短语都有“由……覆盖”之意，

　　介词by用于被动语态，引出动作的逻辑主语，表动作。

　　with用于主动或被动语态均可，指“用……覆盖／掩盖”，表状态。

　　When Sanxia Dam is finished, many towns and villages wi1l be covered by water. 三峡大坝完工后，许多村镇都将被水淹没。

　　He covered his face with his hands. 他双手捂着脸。

on/at/ along the edge of, on edge

　　at the edge of意为“在……的边缘”表位置

　　on the edge of 意为“在……边缘上面”和“即将，濒于”

　　along the edge of意为“沿着……边缘”

　　on edge意为“紧张、不耐烦，急切”。

　　He sat on the edge of a chair. 他坐在椅子边 。

　　We are now at the edge of Libyan Desert.我们现在是在利比亚大沙漠的边缘。

　　Grass grew along the edges of the road.草生长在路的两旁 。

　　He was on edge to have a look at it.他急于想看看那个东西。

　　rush at 意为“向……冲(扑)过去”。 

rush in/into意为“冲进”

　　rush off ( of )/from 意为“冲出”

　　rush through 意为“通过，匆匆做完，穿过”

　　They rushed at the enemy. 他们冲向敌人。

　　Firemen rushed into the burning building to save the child.

　　消防队员冲进着火的大楼去救那小孩。

　　When the bell rang the children rushed out of the classroom.

　　铃一响，孩子们冲出教室。

　　The fire broke out suddenly and they rushed through the window.

　　突然起火，他们跃出窗户。

date back (to)和date from均有“追溯到，从……就开始有”之意

　　date for意为“为……约会”