3. to help the students get into a good habit of reading.
teaching aids: a recorder, a multi-media computer, etc.
teaching procedures:
step1: warming up
1. greetings
2. comment on the students’ report about the culture capsule.
3. go over the ways of giving advice or making suggestions.
step2. pre-reading
t : throughout 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 in or around them a number of famous cultural relics .now let’s have a free discussion about the following questions:
1. some cities, like paris and beijing, are called great cities of the world .in your opinion, what makes a city great?
2. what are your favorite cities?
3. what cultural relics are there in the place where you live? how important are they?
step3reading
task1.fast reading.
t: read the passage quickly, and find out where you have the problem understanding the whole story. discuss the problems in pairs first and in groups later. deal with some common problems in class. finish off the following qs .
1. what’s the name of the city? which river flows through the center of it? who built it?
2. why is it called a city of heroes?
3. true or false questions:
t: this time i’ll play the tape for you .please listen to the tape while looking at the sentences on the screen, making a decision about whether the following statements are true or false.
1) the city of st petersburg was built and rebuilt by peter the great.
2) many great palaces in the city, which were large and beautiful, were built after peter’s death.
3) the germans attacked st. petersburg a hundreds ago.
4) when the palaces and buildings were rebuilt, people changed their old beauty.
5) the germans destroyed a portrait of the great.
6) it was difficult for people to rebuild the old palaces.
7) workers and painters used paragraphs to help them rebuild the city.
8) st petersburg will never be as beautiful as it was before.
4.vocabulary ask the ss to complete the sentences with the right words from the passage. (workbook p. 122 )
t: now please complete the sentences with the right words from the passage. (workbook p. 122 )
task 2. intensive reading
reading the passage carefully and answer the following questions.
1. why was the city important in the past?
2. why did it seem impossible for people to restore the city and its cultural relics after the german left?