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Book2. Unit 1 Cultural relics. 金台高级中学 李景萍. Warming up. Let’s enjoy some pictures about cultural relics. Ming Dynasty vase. The Taj Mahal (In India). ivory dragon boat. Mogao Caves (In China). The Pyramids in Egypt. The Sydney Opera (in Australia). The Big Ben (In England).
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Book2 Unit 1 Cultural relics 金台高级中学 李景萍
Let’s enjoy some pictures about cultural relics. Ming Dynasty vase
Discussion: Do you know what a cultural relic is? It is something like buildings where important events happened. It can be any objects that are helpful for us to know people’s life in the past. It can be any artwork made thousands of years ago.
It is any object, building or that was made something in the past. It may be many thousands of years old or it may be a few hundred. It may or may not valuable.
It tells us something of the way people lived at the time it was made. This may be because of its method of manufacture or how the item was used.
Unit 1 Reading
Words preview amazing select honey design fancy style decorate jewel adj. 令人惊奇的 vt. 挑选; 选择 n. 蜜; 蜂蜜 n. 设计; 图案; 构思 vt.设计; 计划; 构思 adj. 奇特的; 异样的 vt. 想象; 设想; 爱好 n. 风格; 风度; 类型 v. 装饰; 装修 n. 珠宝; 宝石
Words preview n. 艺术家 vi. 属于; 为……的一员 n. 群; 组; 军队 n. 接待; 招待会; 接收 vt. 移动; 搬开 adj. 木制的 n. 怀疑; 疑惑 vt. 怀疑; 不信 adj. 以前的; 从前的 artist belong troop reception remove wooden doubt former
Expressions preview belong to in return at war less than 属于 作为报答; 回报 处于交战状态 少于
Pre-reading 1. Have you ever seen a piece of amber? What do you know about it? 2. Look at the title and the picture of the reading passage and predict what it is about. Then skim it quickly and see if you were right.
amber Can you imagine a house made of amber? rare/precious beautiful
Background The Amber Room was made of almost seven thousand tons of amber. It was built in Prussia. Then, the king,Frederick William I, sent it to Peter the Great as a gift of friendship. And it soon became part of the winter palace. Later, Catherine Ⅱ had her artists add more details to its design. In September, 1941 the Nazi German army secretly stole the Amber Room and then it disappeared mystically.
Listening • Listen carefully and find out characters ,years , and places in the passage. places characters 3 1 years 2
FrederickⅠ Peter the Great Czar characters Frederick WilliamⅠ CatherineⅡ
pass down FrederickⅠ Frederick WilliamⅠ
give as a gift Peter the Great Czar Frederick WilliamⅠ
Frederick William I Peter the Great In return
Summary Nazi FrederickⅠ Peter the Great Czar Frederick WilliamⅠ CatherineⅡ
Fill in the form: In 1716 , Frederick William I gave the Amber Room to Peter the Great , as a gift of friendship from Prussia to the Russian people. In 1770, the Amber Room was completed the way Catherine Ⅱ wanted it.
In September, 1941, the Nazi German and Russia were at war, and the Amber Room was lost. In the spring of 2003, a new Amber Room was built at the Summer Palace to celebrate the 300th birthday of the city of St Petersburg.
places Prussia winter palace in St Petersburg Russia summer palace outside St Petersburg Germany Konigsgerg on the Baltic sea ?
Read again paragraph 2-5 Prussia As the palace of FrederickⅠ As a small reception hall for important visitors. Catherine Ⅱ spenthersummersthere. SummerPalace 2003
Do true or false exercises according to the text. 1.Frederick William I was the King of Russia. 2.The Amber Room has a strange history and it remains a mystery. 3.The Amber Room was made up of seven hundred tons of amber. F Prussia T F thousand
4. Peter the Great made Amber Room his Summer Palace. 5.Catherine II added more details to the Amber Room and made it her Summer Palace. 6.The amber is as hard as stone and hard to be made into shapes. F winter T easy F
Read the text again and discuss the main idea of each paragraph.
Creation • Paragraph 1: ____________of the Amber Room. • Paragraph 2-3: __________ of the Amber Room. • Paragraph 4: ____________ of the Amber Room. • Paragraph 5: _______________of the Amber Room. History Disappearance Rebuilding
Amber fancy style 4 metres
Designed winter palace more details
small art objects the room itself ready / built celebrated
Post-reading The characteristics of the passage This passage tells the history of the Amber Room in the order of time so that we can clearly know what happened to it. Besides the passage uses the Past Tense.
Listening Listen to the tape and follow it to read the text. Discussion What should we do to protect our cultural relics?
Homework 1. Remember the useful words and Expressions. 2. Try to use your own words to retell the story of the Amber Room.