1. UNIT 7　READING
A CITY OF HEROES
课件制作　　王新生

2. A City of Heroes

3. Both Peter the Great and the people of St Petersburg
What is the name of the city?
Who are the heroes of the city?
What is the difference between “A city of Heroes” and “Heroes of a City”?
St. Petersburg
Both Peter the Great and the people of St Petersburg
“A City of Heroes” focuses on a city, where there are many heroes; while “Heroes of a City” focuses on heroes, who live in a city. So the passage tells mainly about the city of St Petersburg

4. Pre-reading
Discuss these questions with your partner:
1.Some cities, like Paris and Beijing, are called great cities of the world. In your opinion, what makes a city great?
A great city has a long history.
A great city is usually the capital of a country and has a large population.
A great city will produce many great people.
A city is great if something important once took place….

5. 2.What are your favourite cities? Why?
3.What cultural relics are there in the place where you live? How important are they?
Sample:
They tell us who our ancestors were and what their life was like.
They help us better understand who we are and where are from.
They show the development of human civilization.

6. Reading Main ideas of each paragraph
Paragraph 1: the build of the city
Paragraph 2: the decline of the city
Paragraph 3: the rebuild of the city
Paragraph 4: the present situation of the city

7. Styles of the text √ Clues of writing: Order of time Narration记叙文
Description描写文
Exposition说明文
Argumentation议论文 √
Styles of the text
Clues of writing:
Building of the city
The 1917 Russian Revolution
The battle in 1941
Rebuilding of the city
St. Petersburg today
Order of time

8. Questions: Which river flows through it? When did they build it?
What were the palaces like?
When did the Germans attack the city?
How long did they attack it?
Did people there give in?
The Neva River
Three hundred years ago
Large and beautiful , look like something out of a fairy tale
In 1941
900 days
No, they never gave in.

9. Why do people think St Petersburg is a great city?
Why was it so difficult for people to rebuild the old palaces?
What did people use to help them rebuild the city?
Why are the people of St Petersburg heroes?
Center of many important historic events
Survived the German attack in 1941
As wonderful as it once was
Badly damaged. Few modern Russian artists knew exactly what it looked like and there were many missing parts and pieces.
The Russian artists used old paintings and photos to rebuild St Petersburg.
They have made something impossible possible. They have successfully rebuilt the palaces without destroying their old beauty.

10. True or false:
The city of St Petersburg was rebuilt by Peter the Great.
The Germans attacked St Petersburg a hundred years ago.
A portrait of Peter the Great was destroyed by the Germans.
It was difficult for people to rebuild the old palaces.
Workers and painters used old photographs to help them rebuild the city.
St Petersburg will never be as beautiful as it was before. √ √ √

13. Useful expressions: Where there is a river, there is a city
Where there is smoke, there is fire.
Where there is water, there is life.
Where there is a will, there is a way.

14. Angry and afraid, she didn’t give a reply.
Strong, proud and united, the people of St. Petersburg are modern heroes of Russia.
Angry and afraid, she didn’t give a reply.
He went to bed, cold and hungry.
Full of fear, he returned to his cave.

15. Tell the text again using about 100 words .
Retell the text using about 100 words.
He drank the coffee at one mouthful, and filled his pot again.
After three hours’ terrible fight, they gained the control of the top of the hill again.
With the disappearance of SARS, some theatres and restaurants opened again.
The students are asked to do their homework again.
I think all of us need to think again about our attitudes toward the public health after SARS.
Key: refilled/regained/reopened/redo/rethink

16. flow through during his lifetime out of a fairy tale in history in ruins in pieces come true under attack
on the bank
give in
give up
bring…back to life
bring back
put back together
with the help of
look out over the city

17. under age
未成年
under care
adv.
被照管
under construction
(正在)修建中
under control
被控制住
under correction
有待改正
under repairs
在修理中(的), 在修缮中
under question
在受盘问时
(在)讲座中的问题
replace
vt.
把...放回原处[原位]
使恢复(原职)
代替, 取代(by, with); 接替, 替换
归还; 赔偿
【化】置换
replace coal by [with] gas
用煤气代替煤作燃料
replace borrowed money
还借款
R-the magazines after reading.
杂志阅后放回原处。
Can anything replace a mother's love and care?
有什么东西能取代母亲的爱和关怀吗?

18. Restore vt.
(使)恢复, (使)复元, 使恢复意识; 使 复职, (使)复辟, 使放回原位
归还, 交还
修复[补]; 重建; 补正, 校补
restore sb. to consciousness
使某人恢复知觉
restore sb. to life
使某人苏醒过来
restore sb. to his old post
使某人复职
restore the book to the shelf
把书放回书架
restore an extinct kind of animal
制作绝种动物的模型

19. A city of heroes St. Petersburg What when attacked What kind of people
What after 1941
Never give in
Strong, proud, united
Rebuilt the city and restored its culture
When built
Where built
St. Petersburg
Over 300 years ago
On the Neva River
Palaces, paintings, statues
Kept as museums
Destroyed by Germans
What cultural relics
What happened after the Russian Revolution
What happened in 1941

20. Fill in the blanks according to the text:
The city is built on the banks of the Neva River flowing through its center. After the Russian Revolution, the palaces there were kept as museums. The city was under attack for three months during the Second Word War, but people there didn’t give in. The Germans destroyed the buildings and everywhere you could see paintings and statues in pieces and the whole city was in ruins. After the war, Russian people began to rebuild the city. They wanted to bring the city back to life. Now, many missing pieces have been replaced, old portraits have recreated, and the city has restored. Dreams can come true.

21. 俄罗斯第二大城市——圣彼得堡
圣彼得堡１９８８年与中国上海市结为友好城市。

22. WINTER PALACE
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