Teaching aims:
1. To enable students to draw the floor plan of his present house.
2. To get students to read the newspapers to find out the information about apartments they want to rent.
3. To make them a review of a painting or a building.
Important and difficult points:
Write a review of art and architecture, especially a painting or a building.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Revision:
Talk about a new classroom decoration to revise the grammar: have… done
---We should have the walls painted white.
--- We had better have … done.
Step 2. Lead-in
( Talk about how to deal with the old classroom.)
--- Now after I finished decorating the classroom, we moved into a new classroom. But what should I do to deal with our old classroom? Should we pull it down? No, I don’t want to do that. Anyway it’s not too old. Should we let it stand empty? No, not a good idea. We want to give it a second life. What shall we do? Please discuss again in groups and this time give me advice on how to deal with the old classroom.
--- Wow, you have so many wonderful ideas! I think I like to change it into … and we can rent it to somebody else. And thus we can give our old classroom a second life.
Step 3. Fast reading on “ Factory 798 ”
Thank you for your ideas to give our old classroom a second life. And the same story goes with another old factory that is no longer used in Beijing. It is the famous place called “Factory 798”. Has anybody ever heard of that? If no, let’s open our books and read the passage on Page 23. Try to find out: “What is Factory 798? ”
--- Who has found out the answer?→ an old army factory ; an arts center;
Step 4. Careful reading
--- Now let’s get some detailed information about Factory 798. Please read the second paragraph of the passage carefully again and find out:
--- What was Factory 798 like?
→ huge factory halls of bricks→ small round windows that remind you of ships→ bent roofs→ 20-foot high walls of glass
More questions to guide the reading:
1.When was Factory 798 built? Who designed it? Who built it?
2. Why is it very different from Chinese architecture?
--- We’ve known that Factory 798 was built in 1950s. As time went by and things developed, what happened to it then?→ no longer used/ needed→ stood empty
--- What has happened to it now?→ turned into an arts center
More questions:
3. How did Factory 798 turn into an arts center?
4.Why was Factory 798 welcomed by painters, music bands, artists and musicians?
Please fill in the table below
Building’s name (Factory 798)
Location In east Beijing
When In the early 1950s
Designer German architects with Russian aid
Features Small round windows, bent roofs and twenty-foot high walls of glass
Styles Modern
Present status A center for the arts
Conclusion It is a great way to save the architecture from the past to turn some of them into arts centers.
Step 5. Listening and reading
--- Now, let’s listen to the tape and get a better understanding of the text. Please follow the tape in a low voice and pay attention to the pronunciation of the new words and phrases which you’re not sure of. At the same time, please try to find out the following new language points in the text and see how much you can understand them in English.
1.pull down 2.stand 3.with… aid 4.remind … of 5.set aside
Step 6. Retelling
suppose you are a journalist from CCTV 9 and you’ve just paid a visit to the famous Factory 798. Please make a TV program to introduce Factory 798 to our citizens in your own words. Good evening, everyone! Welcome to this edition of Around China. Today we will take you to a visit of the famous Factory 798 ...
Step 7. Discussion
--- In almost every city around the world, there are old buildings, which are no longer used, such as schools, hospitals, factories or even churches. What do you think people should do with them? Why?
→To pull down the old buildings and set up new modern ones to keep up with the pace of the society.
→New uses should be given to old special buildings. It’s a great way to save the architecture from the past.
Step 8. Homework.
1. Finish the program about Factory 798 as a TV reporter.
2. Finish your plan about how to reuse our old school buildings.
1. the usual result of old buildings
2. a brief introduction of Factory 798
3. The new use of hall and workshops in the factory
4. how Factory 798 develop into an art center
5. The reasons why artists and musicians like it.
6. The buildings in other cities