Step one Warming-up

1. Greeting.

2. Ask individual Ss to retell the story.

3. Check the homework, giving some explanation if necessary.

Step two Lead-in

1. Ask the Ss to find out the sentences from the passage that they think read most beautiful or sound sweetest.

2. Enjoy the sentences Ss pick out, especially the sentence：“We will not let our history and culture be destroyed, and we will do everything we can to save our city! ”

Step three Reading

1. Scanning Ask the Ss to read the passage on page 124 and finish the following two exercises shown on the screen.

▲Fill in the blanks with the words from the passage

1. The word which has similar meaning to “finish” is ________.

2. ________ means to go or run quickly.

3. The word ________ means to save.

4. A ________ is a place where people worship ( v.崇拜) the god.

5. To ______ large areas means that water covers large areas.

6. If something is needed, it is ________.

7. When you are seriously ill, your life could be ________.

8. When you see people eating breakfast, you can say “They are ________.”

9. The water of a river, a lake or a sea is called ________.

10. To go up or to get higher means to ________.

【KEYS】1.complete 2.To rush 3.rescue 4.temple 5.flood 6.necessary 7.in danger 8.at breakfast 9.waters 10.rise

▲ Fill in the blanks with proper words.

1. A dam was built.________ a result, the water level of the lake rose ________ 63 meters.

2. They decided to move the temple stone ________ stone.