I Teaching Objectives:
1． Develop the student’s abilit of reading skills
2． Enable the ss to know more about modern aechitecture.
3． Enable the ss to learn some useful expressions.
II Teaching Methods: task-based teaching
III Key Points and Difficult Points:
Key Points: Enable the ss to fulfill the task of reading and understand some language points.
IV Teaching Aids: slide
V Teaching Procedures:
Step1. review and lead-in
T: yesterday, we talked about modernism and compared ancient buildings with modern buildings and we know that the disadvantages of modern architecture is that they look unnatural, unbeautiful and unfriendly, right?
S: yes.
T: but some architects are very clever, they learned from the ancient buildings. 正所谓，取其精华，去其糟粕，那么我们昨天所说的古代建筑的精华在哪里呢？
S: natural, beautiful and friendly
T: yes. They look natural. They only use natural materials. They look beautiful because they have different shapes and have many curves and don’t have many straight lines. 他们有不同的形状，房子设计大部分是曲线，很少有直线条。 And we feel warm in them, right?
S: yes.
Step.2 the task of reading
T: so let’s see how some architects learned from the ancient buildings. Turn to page 20. let’s see the picture in the middle of the page, the second one. 翻开书到20页，看第二幅图。Have you found it?
S: yes.
T: good. Let’s see it. It is a modern architecture, but it looks beautiful, right? Not like other modern buildings that like boxes. Look at the roof, please, what does it look like?
S; skin of fish
T: really? Let’s read the words on the left and see whether we are right or not. Read para.3 on this page and answer questions on the slide.
(slide1)
(the teacher explains the content on the slide)
T: are you clear?
S: yes.
T: ok, let’s start, 3minutes.
(3 minutes later)
T: have you found the answers now?
S: yes.
T: good. Let’s see. Who constructed the building?
S: Antonio Gaudi
T: yes. Right. And where does he come from?
S: Spanish
T: Spanish? Are you sure? He is a Spanish architect, so he comes from Spain. Spanish是西班牙人，Spain是西班牙 do you understand now?
S: yes.
T: and what about the third task? I need one of you to give me your answer.
S: …..
T: good. In some of his architecture…..
S: ………………
T: do you all agree with her?
S: yes.
T: I agree too. She is right. Let’s see it.
(teacher shows the answer)
T: Gaudi is a modern architect, but he uses designs from nature. His works makes us think about nature. There are other works that also use designs from nature and make us think about nature. What are they? Please read the last two paragraphs and find three buildings. I’ll give you 3 minutes.
(3 minutes later)
T: have you got it?
S: yes.
T: what are they? Any volunteers?
S:…………
T: ok, **, please. What are the 3buildings?
S: art museum in New York, Opera House in Sydney, the 2008 Olympic Stadium in Beijing
T: excellent. Sit down, please. So do you know what do they look like? Or what do they make you think of? Wright’s art museum in New York looks like Japanese seashells, and what about the Opera House in Sydney?
S: seashell, ship sails
T: yes. Both are righy. Some think it looks like seashells, some think it looks like ship sails. And the 2008 Olympic Stadium in Beijing looks like what?
S: nest.
T: yes. It looks like a bird’s nest. So we can see that some modern buildings can also be beautiful and natural and feel warm, right?
S: yes.
Step3. some language points.
T: ok, this is our reading text. It tells us something about modern architecture and its difference from ancient buildings. Now let’s see some language points appeared. Yesterday we had mentioned some points in para.2-5, right?
S: yes.
T: ok, now let’s have a brief revision about them. The whole class please read para2 and 3.
S:…….
T: good. Yesterday we mentioned “while ” and “equal” , while here means but,not when, right? And equal means match here. And in paragraph 4 we mentioned impress, right?
S: yes
T: it is a new word in this unit. Please translate the second sentence in thin para.
S:…..
T: yes, good. 这些建筑看起来就像盒子，平屋顶，尖锐的转角，以及可以充当镜子用的玻璃墙。 This sentence gives us a vivid description of modern buildings. 这句话生动描述了现代建筑的外形。 Ok, paragraph 5. I want one student to read it out. Any volunteers>
S: ……
T: ok, you, please.
S: ….
T: your pronounciation is good. Thank you. Sit down, please. There are examples of ancient architecture. What are they?
S: Taihe Dian, the Temple of Heaven, or the great European cathedrals.
T: yes. Do you know where is Taihe Dian?
S: 紫禁城
T: yes. It’s in the Forbidden City in Beijing. Thereér Taihe Dian, Zhonghe Dian and Baohe Dian. And Taihe Dian is also called……what?
S:….
T: it’s also called Jinluan Dian. Do you know what’s the Temple of Heaven?
S: 天坛
T: yes, right. And do you know what belief of ancient chinese people is included in this building?
S: …..
T: it’s the belief of “the heaven is round and the earth is square.” 反映了古代中国人民天圆地方的思想。 So architecture can express the culture of a country, right?
S: yes.
T: ok. This is paragraph 2 to 5, we talked about them yesterday and I gave you an assignment to finish exercise 4 on page 21, right? Have you finished it?
S: yes, no.
T: some say yes, some say no, let’s look at it together. We can find the answers in paragraph 3, right?
S: yes.
T: there are 2 groups of materials. We know ancient buildings use materials such as….
S: earth, stone, brick and wood.
T: yes. Right. Can we find them directly from nature?
S: yes.
T: so we call this group1 natural materials. Can you find out other natural materials?
S: 黏土，竹子……
T: yes, clay,and bamboos. And there are reed and marble too. So this is group 1. what about group 2? We can’t find them directly in the nature. They are made by men, right?
S: yes.
T: so we call them man-made materials. What are they?
S: Steel, glass, concrete….
T: yes. Good. Anything else?
S: 塑料
T: yes, good. Plastic, and also iron. Good, this is our homework yesterday. Now let’s continue to look at para.6. I’ll read this paragraph and you think over what does the word in bold refer to. Are you clear?
S: yes.
T: ….. ok, what does that refer to?
S: nature does not have any straight lines.
T: good. And what about his?
S: Gaudi’s
T: yes. It refers to Antonio Gaudi’s. very good. And there are some new words here, balcony?
S: 阳台
T: dragon?
S: 龙
T: fantastic?
S: 奇异的
T; this paragraph is not very difficult so I only want one student to translate the last sentence.
S: …..
T: 观赏高迪的建筑就像进入了梦境，色彩斑斓和形状奇异。
Step4. homework
T: ok, we have no time to learn the last 2 paragraphs. We’ll leave it to the next lesson. Today’s homework is to read the whole passage and finish word study on page 21. are you clear?
S: yes.
T: ok, class is over, see you next time.
S: see you.
Slide1:
1. Who constructed it?
2. Where does he come from?
3. Fill in the blanks:
In some of his architecture, balconies look like _____, other parts look like _____, the walls seem to be covered with _____ , while the roof looks like _____.
Blackboard work:
slide Modern Architecture
art museum in New York, seashells
Opera House in Sydney, seashells, ship sails
the 2008 Olympic Stadium in Beijing a bird’s nest