Unit7 cultural relics-A City of HeroesTeaching aims:1 to enable the students to learn how cultural relics and sites can be successfully restored and rebuilt.2 to instruct the students to understand that cultural relics are important part of a city s and peoples culture.Important and difficult points:1 knowing about how the people of St Petersburg protected the history and culture and how they rebuilt the city.2 knowing about the spirit of a city is more important than its buildings.Step1 lead-inThroughout the world there are many well-known cities. And quite a few of them are particularly great. Some of the cities are well received by the people, and some others have a number of famous cultural relics.First let me show you some pictures which were drawn by some of your classmates.Q1:Do you know these cultural relics?Q2:Did you visit these places before?Well now lets have free discussion about the following questions:Q1: whats your favorite city?Q2: what cultural relics are there in the place where you live?Q3: how important are they?Today we will pay a visit to a foreign cultural relics-St Petersburg. It is the second largest city in Russia . Please look at the title- A City of Heroes what is the difference between A City of Heroes and the Heroes of a City ? In our text, St Petersburg is regarded as a great city,Q1: why is it so called?Q2:Is it great in your eyes?Please read the text quickly and try to get a general idea about it. Now, who would like to tell me :Q1: who is the great hero according to Russian people?Q2: who are the modern heroes?Step2 skimmingSkim the text quickly to find the main idea of each paragraph.( the topic sentence always lies in the beginning or at the end of a paragraph.)Para1: the Russian Czar Peter the Great built a new capitalSt Petersburg.Para2: St Petersburg has also been the centre of many important events in history.Para3: the people of St Petersburg began rebuilding the city.Para4: the people of St Petersburg are the modern heroes of Russia.Step3 scanningShow the questions on the screen, then ask them to give answers.Para1: Where is St Petersburg?What does Peter the Great look like?What does the city and the palaces look like?Para2: How long was it under attack?What did the people of St Petersburg do?What did the Germans do as they left?What were the cities like then?Para3: Was it easy to rebuild the city? And why?What did the people do to restore the city?Did they succeed at last?Para4: Who are the heroes of the city? And why?Step4 do “T” or “F” questions in the textbook.Step5 Group workThe people of St Petersburg tried their best to protect the cultural relics. But nowadays not everyone has a sense of responsibility to protect our cultural relics. And some of them even destroy our cultural sites.Q1: is it necessary for us to protect our cultural relics?Q2: what do you think we can do to protect or to save our cultural relics?Please discuss in groups. Five minutes later ,I will ask some group leaders to express your discussion.