本單元閱讀文本介紹了幾種簡單的英語詩歌形式,旨在讓學(xué)生能理解和欣賞英語詩歌的美,包括形式美、內(nèi)容美、意義美,培養(yǎng)審美情趣,并從作品的意義美中獲得積極的人生態(tài)度和價(jià)值觀念啟示。 該文本是一則典型的說明性文本,用簡單易懂的語言向英語詩歌的初學(xué)者們介紹了五種比較簡單的英語詩歌形式。文題“A Few Simple Forms of English Poems”是整個(gè)文本的核心話題。正文內(nèi)容共七段,按“總—分—總”建構(gòu)。第一段為總起段,概述了英語詩歌的創(chuàng)作原因以及主要特點(diǎn),涉及了形式、內(nèi)容、意義等方面賞析英語詩歌的幾個(gè)主要維度;第二段至第六段分別介紹了童謠、清單詩、五行詩、俳句和唐詩五種英語詩歌形式;第七段收尾,鼓勵(lì)讀者嘗試英語詩歌創(chuàng)作。 在進(jìn)行文本教學(xué)設(shè)計(jì)時(shí),要引導(dǎo)學(xué)生梳理關(guān)于與詩歌要素和詩歌賞析有關(guān)的話題類語言,既包括format、rhythm、subject、image等名詞,也包括have a strong rhythm、be made up of、contain、consist of、convey這樣的動(dòng)詞和動(dòng)詞短語。
幫助學(xué)生通過討論與對主題的提升,反思自己的旅游方式,以便做出更優(yōu)化的安排,在今后的旅程中有更多的收益。 Activity 2: Further discussion of the 6 elements above and supplement of more background knowledge 本活動(dòng)為實(shí)現(xiàn)課時(shí)教學(xué)目標(biāo)2。 1.Target Q: The writer’s clear target of traveling, meeting the people and experiencing the culture, is closely related to his major in social studies. Then what is social studies? Social studies is a part of a school or college curriculum concerned with the study of social relationships and the functioning of society and usually made up of courses in history, government, economics, civics, sociology, geography, and anthropology. (Dictionary by Merriam-Webster) Reflection: When you go out to travel, what targets do you usually have in mind? 2.Research Q: Suppose you are traveling to Hangzhou during the school holidays, how will you do research on the city? (surf the internet, read books or travel brochures, consult friends, ...) What information will you be interested to know? (location, iconic sites, local cuisines, interesting customs, shopping malls ...) 3.Abandonment To make the most of time, we have to learn to abandon so that we can accomplish our plan. What will you be interested in doing if you go to Hangzhou if you have a week’s time? What if you only have 2 days? 4~5. Venturing & Experiencing Q: What did he venture to do during the trip? What new experiences did he have? In Sydney: attend his first open-air barbecue, enjoy many different but yummy meals In Catherine: observe the life and customs of the aborigines appreciate their music & try the musical instruments: the didgeridoo
本活動(dòng)旨在落實(shí)課時(shí)目標(biāo)3。 Think about the following questions and talk about your own attitude in pairs.Q1: As for this topic,what impresses you the most in the passage?Q2: What do you think of the future of China’s further exploration in sea? Are you in favor of the further exploration?Why or why not? 【設(shè)計(jì)意圖】該活動(dòng)是一個(gè)完全開放性的活動(dòng),每個(gè)學(xué)生都會(huì)有不同的答案。運(yùn)用遷移所學(xué),自由口頭表達(dá)自己對海洋探索的態(tài)度。對于中國海洋探索的未來,每個(gè)人的想法是不一樣的,有樂觀,有擔(dān)憂,有認(rèn)為值得投入,也有認(rèn)為不值得付出太大代價(jià),這里給學(xué)生自由表達(dá)的空間只要學(xué)會(huì)有支撐自己觀點(diǎn)的事實(shí)就可以了,進(jìn)一步培養(yǎng)學(xué)生批判性思維和正確的價(jià)值觀。 Assignment: 此任務(wù)旨在遷移一、二課時(shí)所學(xué),培養(yǎng)學(xué)生辯證分析問題的能力。 Write about your idea of the future of China’s sea exploration. And add your attitude towards the effort China have made in sea exploration. You’re expected to use the language and the writing technique learnt in the passage.
【核心素養(yǎng)提升點(diǎn)】學(xué)會(huì)將抽象信息進(jìn)行可視化表達(dá),提高信息處理能力和分析、推理等高階思維品質(zhì);在跨文化交際中學(xué)會(huì)以國際視野接受和包容不同的文化。 5.Read Paragraph 2, draw a mind map and answer the questions. Q1:What did Jo learn about Tombe’s life? Q2:What kind of life do the natives lead? Read paragraph 2-5 and draw a mind-map. (Focus on accommodation, possession, diet and belief) 【設(shè)計(jì)意圖】引導(dǎo)學(xué)生利用思維導(dǎo)圖和問題鏈等形式來厘清當(dāng)?shù)厝说纳罘绞剑玫靥幚砗蜌w納信息 【核心素養(yǎng)提升點(diǎn)】提高信息處理能力、分析和歸納能力,包容異國文化、擴(kuò)展國際視野。 6.Read Paragraph 3 and answer the questions. Q1:What was Jo’s feeling upon arriving her own home? Q2:Why would she feel that way? Q3:Do you think “It was such a privilege to have spent a day with Tombe’s family”? 【設(shè)計(jì)意圖】通過提問,讓學(xué)生理解Jo的苦并快樂的心情,并通過對“It was such a privilege to have spent a day with Tombe’s family”這句話的理解,體驗(yàn)志愿者生活的偉大。 【核心素養(yǎng)提升點(diǎn)】學(xué)會(huì)對信息的綜合和歸納,從而理解作者所表達(dá)的觀點(diǎn)。 Activity4: Summarize the change of Jo's feelings
本單元閱讀文本向中學(xué)生推薦職業(yè)能力測試(Career Aptitude Test),旨在建議學(xué)生利用職業(yè)傾向測試來發(fā)現(xiàn)自己更感興趣、更有潛力的學(xué)習(xí)或職業(yè)方向,并規(guī)劃自己的未來職業(yè)。 本文采用了建議性文本,全篇從職業(yè)生涯的重要意義講起,針對中學(xué)生對職業(yè)規(guī)劃比較迷茫的現(xiàn)狀,提出了職業(yè)傾向測試這一建議。全文共七段,其中第一段和第二段為第一部分,其余五段為第二部分。第一部分論述職業(yè)的重要性和職業(yè)生涯規(guī)劃的最佳時(shí)間是在校期間,第二部分提出解決職業(yè)選擇困惑可以通過完成職業(yè)能力測試,介紹了不同種類的職業(yè)傾向測試,結(jié)合圖表詳細(xì)說明其中一種操作步驟,并提醒職業(yè)建議也基于學(xué)歷和經(jīng)驗(yàn),最后一段概括論述,建議學(xué)生通過職業(yè)能力測試這一有效的工具,找到自己真正熱愛的事物。 在文本教學(xué)設(shè)計(jì)時(shí),要幫助學(xué)生梳理有關(guān)職業(yè)的話題語言。閱讀策略層面,指導(dǎo)學(xué)生通過學(xué)習(xí)圖表和圖形,在有限的空間內(nèi)獲取廣泛信息,如閱讀圖表標(biāo)題,圖表上的標(biāo)簽,X軸Y軸上的數(shù)據(jù)所指。
一、教學(xué)內(nèi)容:Part B Let’s learn Let’s play. Part C Task time Let’s check 二、教學(xué)目標(biāo)與要求 1、掌握四會(huì)詞組:went to a park, went swimming, read a book, went fishing, went hiking. 2、學(xué)會(huì)用句型What did you/ (name) do last weekend/ yesterday? I(name) (did) last weekend/ yesterday. Did you….? Yes, I did. 來進(jìn)行問答并完成Task time的表格。 三、教學(xué)重點(diǎn) 掌握四會(huì)詞組,并用所學(xué)詞組和句型進(jìn)行調(diào)查 四、教學(xué)難點(diǎn) 掌握四會(huì)詞組(不規(guī)則動(dòng)詞過去式變化),并用所學(xué)詞組和句型進(jìn)行調(diào)查 五、課前準(zhǔn)備 1、教師準(zhǔn)備所需的詞卡及圖片。 2、學(xué)生準(zhǔn)備詞卡。 六、教學(xué)過程 1、Warm-up 1) Free-talk: T: What day is today? A: Today is… T: What day was yesterday? (強(qiáng)調(diào) yesterday) B: Yesterday/ It was… T: What did you do yesterday? C: I (did)…yesterday. ( 用前幾課時(shí)已經(jīng)學(xué)的詞組) 2) Chain-drill: C: I (did)…yesterday. What did you do yesterday? D: I (did)…yesterday. What did you do yesterday? E, F… (ask the teacher) T: I went to a park yesterday. 2、Presentation and practice let’s learn (1)繼續(xù)Chain-drill,由T 引出并出示新授詞組:went hiking. (2)學(xué)生已經(jīng)了解了go 的過去式后, T 邊用I went ( 這個(gè)動(dòng)詞用動(dòng)作表示)yesterday.表達(dá)自己昨天去做什么了,邊做動(dòng)作.讓學(xué)生幫老師說出: went swimming, went fishing.
【教材分析】The topic of this unit is about teenage life, which belongs to the theme context of “humans and oneself”.As teenagers who shoulder the responsibility of “Chinese great dream”, they must fully know themselves, including their strengths, weaknesses and challenges etc. They are supposed to improve themselves continuously and readily study their subjects, and thus foster their strategies and confidence in lifelong studies.This period is entitled the freshmen challenges, which mainly concerns some big challenges for new students in Senior high school. In this period, a teacher should lead students to find out what their challenges are and guide them to figure out how to crack the challenges and better themselves. More importantly, a teacher should instruct students to absorb new language points and appreciate the language. Besides, a teacher must instruct students to acquire some skills concerning reading efficiently and inspire them to talk more about their new school life, especially their new problems and solutions both at school and in life.【教學(xué)目標(biāo)與核心素養(yǎng)】1. Enable students to acquire the basic usage of the new words and expressions concerning the freshmen challenges and learn to use them flexibly.2. Enable students to have a good understanding of the freshmen challenges in the new senior high school which is quite different from junior middle school.3. Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning and individual thinking capability. 4. Develop students’ different learning skills to solve different reading comprehensive problems.
Good expressions that students can choose to use: help the travelers choose which tour to take1. In my opinion, you could/might choose…, because you prefer to…2. …could be a perfect choice for you, for…3. As far as I am concerned, you would enjoy…, for…4. …would probably suit you, because you enjoy/love/hate doing…Step 5 Passage ConsolidationLanguage appreciation:1. You can then spend three days exploring the rainforest with a local guide and enjoying the plants and animals unique to the rainforest. 在接下來的三天里,您可以在當(dāng)?shù)貙?dǎo)游的陪同下,深入雨林進(jìn)行探索,欣賞雨林特有的動(dòng)植物。本句主體結(jié)構(gòu)為spend some time doing sth. 2. Inca builders cut stones to exact sizes so that nothing was needed to hold walls together other than the perfect fit of the stones. 印加的建筑工人將石頭切割成精確的尺寸,僅僅憑著石頭間的完美契合,即可穩(wěn)固墻體。本句為so that引導(dǎo)的結(jié)果狀語從句。nothing與the perfect fit為并列成分; other than在句中意為“除了”。Step 6 HomeworkSuppose you will travel to Peru, write a short essay about your three-day tour plan.
2. Sort out detailed information about Michael Jordan.(1) Understand the transitional sentence.Q: Which part is about Michael Jordan as a master? Which part is about the example he set?(2) Have the Ss Focus on why Michael Jordan is a master and what good examples Michael Jordan set when they’re reading. And think about these questions as below:Q1: How does the author describe his impressive skills?Q2: How do you understand “time seemed to stand still”?Q3: What does “graceful” mean?Q4. Which sentence do you think best describes his mental strength?Q5. Which words is important in the sentence in describing his mental strength? Why?Q6: How do you understand “unique”?Q7: What can we learn from Michael Jordan?Step 5 Discussing and recommendingRecommend their own living legends of sports.Work in groups to choose your own living legend of sports and give the reasons of your choice. Step 6 HomeworkReview the stories of Lang Ping and Michael Jordan, and try to retell them.
【教材分析】This teaching period mainly deals with the grammar: the restrictive relative clauses.This period carries considerable significance to the cultivation of students’ writing competence and lays a solid foundation for the basic appreciation of language beauty. The teacher is expected to enable students to master this period thoroughly and consolidate the knowledge by doing some exercise of good quality.【教學(xué)目標(biāo)與核心素養(yǎng)】1. Get students to have a good understanding of the basic usages of the restrictive relative clauses.2. Enable students to use the restrictive relative clauses flexibly.3. Develop students’ speaking and cooperating abilities.4. Strengthen students’ great interest in grammar learning.【教學(xué)重難點(diǎn)】How to enable students to have a good understanding of the restrictive relative clauses, especially the uses of the relative words such as which, that, who, whom.【教學(xué)過程】Step1: 語法知識(shí)呈現(xiàn)定語從句(一)—關(guān)系代詞的用法在復(fù)合句中, 修飾名詞或代詞的從句叫定語從句。定語從句通常由關(guān)系代詞或關(guān)系副詞引導(dǎo),說明事物的具體信息,從句位于被修飾詞之后。被定語從句修飾的詞叫先行詞,引導(dǎo)定語從句的詞叫關(guān)系詞,關(guān)系詞指代先行詞,并在定語從句中充當(dāng)成分。關(guān)系詞有兩種:關(guān)系代詞who, whom ,whose, that, which, as和關(guān)系副詞when, where, why。
5. Read to get detailed information about Paragraph 5.Q1. What shows the revival of Tangshan?Q2. How can Tangshan revive itself and get up on its feet again?Q3. In times of disasters, how can we go through it?T: In times of disasters, we should unify, show the wisdom and stay positive.Step 4 Activity 4 Highlighting the theme and reflecting1. Make a summary of the text.2. Further understand the titleQ: After our learning, why do you think the earth didn’t sleep on that night?T: An earthquake happened. The people in the earthquake suffered a lot, and the people outside Tangshan were concerned about the people there a lot.3. Reflect through discussion on what can be learnt after reading.T: Disasters are powerful. Unpreparedness can be deadly. Life is weak, but if people work together to help each other, disasters can be defeated.There is no love from disaster, but we have love in the human heart.Step 5 Assignment How does the writer convey that the earthquake was deadly, and that people were helpless during the earthquake? Try to find some attractive and impressive expressions and note them down.
Step 3: Read to sum upRead it again and sum up the problems of the three students, and then write down the advice that was given from others.Step 4: Work in pairs. List your learning problems in English and brainstorm some useful advice.Useful expressions ? I don't know how to…... Is a big difficulty for me. I cannot ...? You might try …. It's very important to…? I have no idea how/what .My biggest problem is .... ? I (also) have trouble with. My advice is …. This worked for me.? l cannot understand the teachers’ English in class.Step 5 Homework:為提高我校學(xué)生的英語口語水平,我們將舉辦英語演講比賽(English- speaking contest),請你根據(jù)下面的信息,以學(xué)生會(huì)(the Students‘ Union)的名義寫一份海報(bào),歡迎全校同學(xué)參加,屆時(shí)特邀本校美籍教師史密斯先生頒獎(jiǎng)。? 報(bào)名時(shí)間 9月30日以前(報(bào)名:signup)? 報(bào)名地點(diǎn) 學(xué)生會(huì)辦公室? 比賽時(shí)間 10月9日晚7:00~9:00? 比賽地點(diǎn) 學(xué)校大會(huì)議室? 獎(jiǎng)勵(lì) 前8名
This theme of the part is “ Describe people or things in greater detail”. Students have learned the grammar(restrictive relative clauses) in Book 1, and further review and consolidate its structure “prep+relative pronouns(which/whom)” and the relative adverbs(when, where and why), besides students should understand its form, meaning and functions. In this section, students should be able to express the grammar correctly in daily communication and in the writing. 1. Review the basic usages of relative pronouns and adverbs of attributive clauses . 2. Learn to use some special cases about restrictive relative clauses.3. Learn to write sentences with restrictive relative clauses flexibly according to the context.1. Review the basic usages of relative pronouns and adverbs of attributive clauses .2. Learn to use some special cases about restrictive relative clauses.3. Learn tow rite sentences with restrictive relative clauses flexibly according to the context.Step 1. Observe the following sentences, and mark the relative pronouns and the adverbs. 1. After listening to the scientists who had studied the problems, and citizens who lived near the dam, the government turned to the United Nations for help.2. Temples and other cultural sites were taken down piece by piece, and then moved and put back together again in a place where they were safe from the water.Step 2 PracticePlease complete these sentences with relative pronouns and relative adverbs and answer the following questions.Questions: 1. What is the head noun ?2. What relative words should be used ?3. What elements do they act in these sentences ?
This lesson aims at making a poster about protecting wildlife after reading some posters. During reading students are guided to understand the content and try to summarize the posters with one sentence. Then students are guided to try to make a poster about protecting wildlife.1. Read the two posters and try to understand the summary sentences.2. Look at the two posters and try to understand what emotions they express.3. Try to summarize the features of posters4. Try to make a poster about wildlife.1. Look at the two posters and try to understand what emotions they express.2. Try to summarize the features of posters3. Try to make a poster about wildlife.Step 1 Lead inLook at the the posters on the textbook and ask:Which emotions do the posters communicate ?Step 2 Read the poster and answer the questions.1. What do you think of the animals in the poster on the left ?I think it is frightening and ugly.2. Why do we should protect the ugly animals ?All species--the good, the bad, and the ugly-- should be treated equally.The world needs all kinds--without variety, our planet cannot survive.3. Why are billions of trees being cut down every year ?To make paper for humans.4. What result will be lead to after the trees are cut down ?A lost of animal homes are being destroyed./The habitat of wildlife is being destroyed.Step 3 Find the feature of posters1. What does each poster use to stir up emotions ?On the left, it makes us a little frightened and it looks a little ugly, but it can activate our curiosity--What is it? And What is wrong with it?On the right, it makes us feel a little sad and want to protect them.
The theme of the reading and thinking is about “Understanding how a problem was solved”.The Listening & Speaking & Talking is about international co-work to protect the Mount Tai, in which the students from seven countries came up with many solutions even create the Mount Tai App. This section aims at showing how to solve a difficult and even tough problem about protecting the cultural heritage by the international co-work. So in this section, cultivating students’ international awareness is very clear and important. Concretely, with the economic development, how to balance the protection of cultural relics and social development is a big challenge for human. In the 1950s, the Egyptian government wanted to build the Aswan Dam across the Nile to control floods, produce electricity and water farms. But the proposal led to protests because it would destroy a lot of cultural relics. The Egyptian had no choice but ask the UN for help. Therefore, a international cooperation about how to protect the cultural relics began, which involved the time length about 20 years and a large amount of fund. Then, the problems was solved. 1. Read quickly to get the main idea and the structure of the article; read careful to get detailed information.2. Learn to use the reading strategy---making a timeline3. Learn how to solve a tough problem by asking for help and cooperation4. Have the international awareness and understand the great strength of international cooperation.1. Read quickly to get the main idea and the structure of the article; read careful to get detailed information.2. Learn to use the reading strategy---making a timeline.3. Learn how to solve a tough problem by asking for help and cooperation.
The listening and speaking part aims at how to protect and help endangered animals by listening, speaking and talking about the facts and reasons. This lesson analyzes the decreasing clause of Tibetan antelope population and the measures of protecting Tibetan antelopes. So students can be guided to learn to analyse the title and use different reading skills or strategies, like scanning, skimming and careful reading.1. Read quickly to get the main ideas and the purpose of going to Tibetan; read carefully to understand what the author see and think.2. Understand the sentences of the present continuous passive voice such as “Much is being done to protect wildlife.” and the inverted sentence “Only when we learn to exist in harmony with nature can we stop being a threat to wildlife and to our planet.”3. Enhance the awareness of protecting wildlife.4. Cultivate the reading methods according to different materials.1. Read quickly to get the main ideas and the purpose of going to Tibetan; read carefully to understand what the author see and think.2. Understand the sentences of the present continuous passive voice such as “Much is being done to protect wildlife.” and the inverted sentence “Only when we learn to exist in harmony with nature can we stop being a threat to wildlife and to our planet.”3. Cultivate the reading methods according to different materials.Step 1 Leading-inWatch a video about elephants and whales and then ask:Why are they endangered ? They are killed/hunted
The theme of this unit is human and nature, focusing on the theme of wildlife protection. Nature is a complex ecosystem, in which there are delicate balance between animals and plants. Because of the role of the food chain, the extinction of one species will produce influence, causing a series of chain reaction. Large scale extinction of species will have a serious and even irreversible impact on the ecosystem, resulting in immeasurable losses. Therefore, it is of great significance to protect wild species. To protect wild species is to protect human beings themselves. The motto of this unit is "when the buying stops, the killing can too,” which is a public service advertising slogan to protect wildlife. It tells people that every rhinoceros horn, every fur, every bowl of shark fin soup, every Ivory product, and every tiger bone product, etc. consumed by human beings, are innocent wild animals slaughtered behind them. The mission of wild aid is to ban illegal trade in endangered wildlife and mitigate climate change. It aims to educate the public to reduce the consumption demand for endangered wildlife products through public publicity and improve the awareness of environmental protection.1. Improve the awareness of wildlife protection by acquiring the knowledge of wildlife protection.2. Focus on environmental protection and protection of all lives.3. Analysis of the living environment of wild animals with appropriate thinking mode.4. Skillfully use the vocabulary and grammar knowledge of this unit to cultivate self-study ability according to the unit content5. Develop cooperative learning ability through discussion and other ways1. Enable the Ss to talk about the current situation of wild animals.2. Guide the Ss to summarize the main idea of each paragraph as well as the main idea of the text.
This unit is about the Internet, which has a great influence to our humans and our lives. During the Listening & Speaking & Talking and Reading and Thinking section, the influence in examples has been shown. Thus, use the Present Perfect Tense is appropriate. However, in order to show the justice or weaken the doer of the behavior/action, it’s better to use the Present Perfect Passive Voice than the Present Perfect Tense. Besides, having learned to use the Present Perfect Passive Voice, students can beautify their language in their writing. 1. Learn the structure of the Present Perfect Passive Voice and its functions. 2. Learn to change the sentences with the Present Perfect Passive Voice into the sentences with the Present Perfect Passive Voice. 3. Learn to write sentences with the Present Perfect Passive Voice flexibly according to the context. 1. Learn the structure of the Present Perfect Passive Voice and its functions. 2. Learn to change the sentences with the Present Perfect Passive Voice into the sentences with the Present Perfect Passive Voice. 3. Learn to write sentences with the Present Perfect Passive Voice flexibly according to the context. Step 1 Observe the following sentences, then change the sentences into passive voice.He has been selected to take part in the sports meeting.(肯定句)他已被挑選出來參加運(yùn)動(dòng)會(huì)。The ink has not been removed from his overcoat.(否定句)墨跡還沒有從他外套上去掉。
Q5:What's Jan's next goal?Her next goal is to start a charity website to raise money for children in poor countries.Q6:What can we learn from her experiences?We learn that when we go through tough times, we can find help and support from other people online. We learn that we can feel less lonelyStep 5: While reading---rethinkingQ1: What is Jan’s attitude to the Internet ?Thankful/Grateful, because it has changed her and her life.Q2: What writing skills is used in the article ?Examples(Jan’s example, the 59-year-old man’s and the 61-year-old woman’s example)Q3: Can you get the main idea of the article ?The Internet has changed Jan’s life/Jan’s life has been changed by the Internet.Step 6 Post reading---Retell the storyMuch has been written about the wonders of the World Wide Web. There are countless articles (1)telling(tell) us how the Internet has made our lives more convenient. But the Internet has done a lot (2)more(much) for people than simply make life more convenient. People’s lives (3) have been changed(change) by online communities and social networks so far. Take Jan for example, who developed a serious illness that made her (4)stuck(stick) at home with only her computer to keep (5)her(she) company. She joined an online group (6)where she could share problems, support and advice with others. She considered the ability to remove the distance between people as one of the greatest (7)benefits(benefit). She was so inspired (8)that she started an IT club in which many people have been helped. She has started to learn more about how to use the Internet to make society better. Her next goal is to start a charity website to raise money (9)for children in poor countries. Jan’s life has been (10)greatly(great) improved by the Internet.
This unit is about history and traditions. From the opening page, we can know that this unit will introduce the history and traditions around the world. As Marcus Garvey says “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots”, it is important for students to realize the importance and value of knowing the history and traditions and their further meanings. And this part ( listening and speaking ) is divided into two parts: Part A---share views on historic sites, Part B ---talk about a visit to a historic tourist destination. By talking with a foreigner, the speakers introduce the historic attractions and their cultures. Part A is that William, a British student, who was going to visit the Confucius Temple and a Chinese student, Xiao Kong, who was going to the Confucius Temple to meet with the members of the research group, went together and exchanged their views on the Confucius Temple, Confucius, Confucius' descendants and Confucius' educational thoughts. Part B is a conversation between Xiao Yan, a youth hostel receptionist and Paul, a backpacker about the feelings and experience after visiting the Chinese famous tourist attraction Pingyao.1. Guide students to understand the content of listening texts in terms of the whole and key details; 2. Cultivate students' ability to guess the meaning of words in listening; discuss with their peers how to talk about historic spots and great person.3. Instruct students to use functional sentences of showing one’s excitement, surprise and disappointment.1. Guide students to understand the content of listening texts in terms of the whole and key details; 2. Cultivate students' ability to discuss with their peers the related topics.3. Enable students to use the functional items of showing one’s excitement, surprise and disappointment.