1. Do you know these places?

2. If you know, what do you know about the places?

3. Which one would you like to visit? Why?

I: As is known to all, China is a country with a history of more than 5,000 years. In the long history, people in different periods have left us quite a number of cultural sites, many of which are world famous. Now look at the pictures and guess what heritage they are.

All these are cultural relics.

Do you know any other cultural relics in the world?

T shows the Ss some cultural relics abroad.

Task 1: ask the Ss to make a dialogue by saying.

Imagine you have a chance to travel these places. Which place would you like to go?

Why? When are you starting off? How are you getting there? How long are you staying?

Please make a dialogue with your partners. Then students answer the following questions:

What is your favorite city? Why?

(a long history; cultural relics; many great people; important events taking place there)

T:Unfortunately, some of them are in danger because they are destroyed, and some of them were lost because someone stole them.

Task 2: Now suppose that you work for the state office of cultural relics. You are sent to a small town where you find a relic that was stolen from a palace. It is a rare Ming Dynasty vase. The man who has it insists that it belongs to his family. What will you say to him?

Work in pairs to discuss this question, and then I'll ask some Ss to tell me your answers.

Step 3 Task 3 Speaking task on page 46

Debate Do you think China should save all of its cultural relics?

T: After watching so many pictures, now discuss with your partners the following question:

What is a cultural relics?

(Ss can find the answer from the Warming up.)

Step 4 Pre-reading

T: OK, class, do you think these cultural relics are beautiful?