Unit 1 Cultural Heritage
Listening and Speaking
In this class, you will
1. practise listening for the main idea and detailed
information of a natural conversation about a youth
project;
2. practise using the context to guess the meaning of new
words;
3. talk about the protection of the cultural heritage by
using information collected from previous listening
activities.
Learning objectives
Warming-up
Warming-up
Listen to the conversation and choose the main idea.
A. Students from different countries are working creatively to
protect a temple in China.
B. Youths from seven countries are working together to protect
cultural relics on Mount Tai.
C. Doing a project on cultural heritage protection in China is
interesting and exciting.
Listening
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Reporter: Hello. What are you guys doing?
Stephanie: We’re creating an app about Mount Tai. We’re part
of an international youth project.
Reporter: That’s interesting. How many students are taking part
in the project?
Stephanie: There are 23 senior high school students from seven
countries.
Listening
youths from seven countries
are working together
Reporter: Why is the project here at Mount Tai?
Lin Bin: Well, as you know, Mount Tai is one of the most
famous mountains in China. The mountain and
the temples have been protected for over 3,000
years, so it’s a great example of how people
preserve their cultural heritage. We feel so proud
to have a chance to do something.
Listening
protect cultural relics on Mount Tai
Listen again and help the reporter to complete the
interview notes.
Listening
International youth project, ___ high school students from 7
countries
Mount Tai, one of the most ______ mountains in China
It has been _______ for more than 3,000 years.
22 temples, around 1,800 _____ with writing on them
Dai Temple on _________ ; over 6,000 ____
Listening
23
famous
protected
stones
Mount Tai steps
Guess the meaning of new words.
EXAMPLE
The palace was destroyed years ago. By studying old
photos of the former palace, they have made the new one
look exactly like the old one.
Listening
Guess: The former palace means “the palace that
____________________________”.was built before but was destroyed
Listening
Reason
ü The word is an example of a group/type I know.
ü The word is explained by the speaker.
ü The word means the opposite of a word I know.
ü The word means the same as a word I know.
ü I know the general meaning of the word.
ü The speaker gives an example of the word.
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Listening
Listen to the conversation again and use the context to
guess the meaning of the three words. Tick the reason
why you were able to guess the words.
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Guess the meaning of new words.
Preserve
The mountain and the temples have been protected for over
3,000 years, so it’s a great example of how people preserve
their cultural heritage.
Listening
Guess the meaning of new words.
Promote
We want to promote Mount Tai; that is, we want to tell
teenagers in other countries about the mountain and
Chinese culture.
Listening
Listening
Listen to the conversation again and use the context to
guess the meaning of the three words. Tick the reason
why you were able to guess the words.
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Guess the meaning of new words.
Cypress
This game is about six cypresses that were planted on
Mount Tai during Han Dynasty. You learn about the trees
and also the life in China over 2,000 years ago.
Listening
Complete the news report.
Post-listening
Complete the news report.
Post-listening
International Youth Camp Members Create Mount Tai App
Tai’an, 18 June 2019. A group of high school students who
are taking part in an international youth camp at Mount Tai
are creating a(n) ___ about China’s most famous mountain.
The purpose of the camp is to _______ Mount Tai by
introducing it to young people in a fun and easy way.
app
promote
Complete the news report.
Post-listening
The students are making an app about Mount Tai and
taking photos of the ______ and stones. The volunteers
also visit middle schools in the area in order to talk to local
teenagers. Liu Bin, a member of the camp, says that he is
_____ to help Mount Tai as people have done for more
than 3,000 years.
temples
proud
Post-listening
Think about the questions.
1. What is usually in a title of a news report?
2. What is the lead sentence of the news report?
What is included in the lead?
3. What is the structure of the news report?
Post-listening
Think about the questions.
1. What is usually in a title of a news report?
International Youth Camp Members Create Mount Tai App
who what
Think about the questions.
2. What is the lead sentence of the news report?
What is included in a lead?
Post-listening
Tai’an, 18 June 2019. A group of high school
students who are taking part in an international
youth camp at Mount Tai are creating an app
about China’s most famous mountain.
where when who
what
Think about the questions.
3. What is the structure of the news report?
Post-listening
Would you like to take part in a project like
this? Why or why not?
Could you think of more ways to protect the
cultural heritage?
Speaking
A consonant cluster(辅音连缀) is a group of
consonants(辅音) with no vowels (元音) between
them. Groups are of two, three, or four consonants at
the start, within, or at the end of a word.
EXAMPLE:
Start: pr-, gr-, sm-, sl-, sp-, str-, sw-, scr-, etc.
End: -lk, -nt, -nd, -nk, -sk, -st, -xt, etc.
Pronunciation
Pronunciation
Listen and tick the word that you hear.
1 present / pleasant 2 crew / grew
3 scream /cream 4 exist / exists
5 twelve / twelfth 6 confident / confused
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Pronunciation
Listen to the sentences and tick the word you hear.
1 Yuanmingyuan? Just across the street. / Yuanmingyuan?
Just cross the street.
2 Bruce referred to the guidebook. / Bruce preferred the
guidebook.
3 The dragon followed its tail. / The dragon followed its trail.
4 It is a different context. / It is a different contest.
5 The trays were dark green. / The trains were dark green.
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Homework
1. Read the news report in Activity 6 aloud.
2. Write a paragraph about more ways to
protect the cultural heritage.