Unit 1 Cultural relics (Student’s Book 2)
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学习目标与要求：
Items
Studying aims and demands
Words
survive, select, design, fancy, decorate, remove, doubt, worth, explode
Expressions
in search of, belong to, in return, at war, less than, take apart, think highly of…
Functional
items
征求看法(Asking for opinion):
1) What will you say to him?
2) How can you be sure he was telling the truth?
3) Why/Why not?
发表看法(Giving opinion):
1) I (don’t) agree with you.
2) I don’t agree that…
3) I don’t believe …because…
4) I think they have said useful things.
Grammar
限制性定语从句：
It is your job to look into any reports of cultural relics that have been found in China.
非限制性定语从句：
This gift was the Amber Room, which was given this name because almost seven thousand tons of amber were used to make it.
Topic
Cultural relics protection; famous cultural relics in China and abroad
Warming up
1. What makes a city great and famous?
(1) a long history          (2) cultural relics        (3) many great people
(4) important events that took place there
2. What is a cultural relic? Why are cultural relics important?
(1) part of something old that has remained when the rest of it has been destroyed.
(2) something that can represent cultures, which has survived for a long time to tell the history.
(3) survive for a long time.            (4) tell people about the past.
(5) a physical remainder of what different peoples valued in the past and continue to value now.   
(6) very rare and valuable
(7) can be a craftwork, a building, a book, a painting, music, and so on.
(8) more than a works of art; it is a symbol of history and the people who lived in the past.
(9) help better understand cultural traditions and what life was like in the past.
(10) tell us the way (that) people lived at the time when it was made.
(11) Each kind of relics preserves some aspect of cultural heritage and each relic is still a unique cultural expression and contributions.
(12) a treasure left to us by our ancestors. It reflects the ancient civilization.
(13) valuable for finding out about the past
(14) help develop national pride
(15) protect heritage/ culture
(16)They show the development of human civilization.
(17)They help us better understand who we are and where we are from .
(18)They tell us how our ancestors were and what their life was like.
3. What should we do to protect cultural relics?
(1) pay more attention to the environment(al) pollution.
(2) It’s the first step we should take to protect our cultural relics.
(3) enforce our awareness of protecting cultural relics, and teach people publicly about how to do this.
(4) do something useful for the cause of protecting cultural relics.
(5) learn more about our culture.    (6) publicize it to our people and our foreign friends.
(7) take actions from ourselves to protect them.
(8) make the importance of protecting cultural relics known to all.
(9) write letters to an editor/ newspapers/ city leaders…
(10) advise the government to punish seriously those who damage the relics
(11) be volunteers by turns to watch people in such kind of areas in our town
(12) use hi-tech to take photos, just like those cars which break the rules at the traffic lights.
(13) depend on people’s own conscience        (14) value local historical sites
  (15) prevent further damage            (16) encourage repairs
relic  (17) give a speech/ talk to… about…        (18) raise/ collect/ contribute/ donate money
  (19) collect a list of people who agree with you
  (20) put up posters on protecting threatened buildings (21) do everything we can to save …
4. What do you think can represent the Chinese culture？
(1) the Great Wall    (2) the Yuan Ming Yuan  (3) ……
5. Are they what they used to be? Should we rebuild it?
(1) leave it as it is in order to remind the young of the shame    (2) not damage it any more
(3) never carve any words on the columns        (4) protect it carefully, and so on.
6. If you find a cultural relic, will you keep it for yourself or report it to the government? Why?
  Keep it, because … (1) spend much time and money searching for it
    (2) the finder deserves some compensation
    (3) discourage people from looking for them if not right to keep them
    (4) with so many relics, it doesn’t matter if one or two belongs to an individual