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Unit24 lesson 3 A Changing World

Learning objectives:

1. Practice one of the reading strategies—summarizing.

2. Pick out key information about hutongs from reading.

3. Practice using vocabularies related to hutongs by talking about your own opinions.

Important and difficult points:

 How to write a short summary of a written text.

Learning procedures:   

Step 1 Pre-reading

Look at the photos and the title, and make some predictions

1.       Where do these people live? What is their life like?

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2. What do you think the article is about?___________________________________________

Step 2 While-reading(Individual work)

Task 1 Read the text quickly and use the reading strategies-summarizing to do Ex.2&3 on P38

Task 2 Skim and answer the following questions

 1) What offers travelers a rare view into China’s past and leaves the tourists the strongest impression? ______________________________

2) What does the word “hutong” refer to nowadays?

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Task 3 Use notes of the main points and the key information to fill in the blanks

Step 3 Post-reading

Task 1 Work in your group. Use the following key words and the information you have collected while reading to retell the text.

As a modern city, should these buildings be preserved in Jinjiang? why or why not?

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Step 4 Homework

1. Review the new words and do ex.5&9 on page 39

2. Replace the underlined phrases with proper words

}         The homes of the upper class and wealthy citizens were in the hutongs closest to the royal palace.

}         The conditions in Beijing’s hutongs went down as the political situation throw a dark cloud on China’s history.

}         Conditions improved a great deal and the government made itself responsible for the protection of many of the oldest hutongs.