intangible. Now please read the passage on page 78 and answer the questions in Activity 1.

After a few minutes, ask some students to answer the questions orally.

Sample answers:

1. Tangible cultural heritage are things one can see and touch. Intangible cultural heritage, which is also called living cultural heritage, are things one cannot see or touch, including oral heritage, living human treasures, endangered languages, traditional music of the world.

2. Examples of oral heritage: the Art of Chinese Xinjiang Uyghur Muqam the Pastoral Song of the Mongolian ethnic group.

3. Living human treasures are those who have the knowledge and skills required for the cultural traditions of their society.

4. The small number of people and being not taught to new inhabitants of the region make a language endangered.

5. An example of traditional music that is thought to be part of an intangible cultural heritage: Kunqu opera in Kunshan, near Suzhou.

Ask the students to look at the China's cultural heritage on page 81 and tell from intangible and tangible heritage.

T: Now please look at the list of China's cultural heritage in the box in Activity 1. Tell which items are examples of tangible cultural heritage and which ones are intangible?

Sample answers:

Tangible: the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, Mogao Caves at Dunhuang, the Qin Terracotta, Warriors and Horses, Confucius Temple at Qufu

Intangible: Kunqu Opera, Chen-style Tai Chi, Guqin Musis, Shaolin kung fu

Ask the students to write a short essay about an intangible human heritage that they know about.

T: UNESCO started listing masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 1998, with a view to saving, maintaining and protecting endangered and declining cultural heritage. What intangible human heritage do you know? Now