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金台高级中学 李景萍

Warming up Warming up

Ming Dynasty vase

Let’s enjoy some pictures about cultural relics.

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)

The Great Wall

Temple of Heaven

The Imperial Palace

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

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

artistbelong troop

receptionremovewooden

doubt

former

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

Words 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

Expressions preview

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.

Pre-reading

Amber

amber

beautifulbeautiful rare/preciousrare/precious

Can you imagine a house made of amber?

In Search of the Amber Room

(Prussia)

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 had her Ⅱartists add more details to its design. In September, 1941 the Nazi German army secretly stole the Amber Room and then it disappeared mystically.

Background

• Listen carefully and find out characters ,years ,

and places in the passage.

characters

years

places

1

2

3

Frederick WilliamⅠ

Peter the Great Peter the Great Czar Czar

CatherineCatherineⅡⅡ

FrederickⅠ

What did these people do to the Amber Room?

FrederickⅠ Frederick WilliamⅠ

pass down

Peter the Great Peter the Great Czar Czar

give as a gift

Frederick WilliamⅠ

What did Peter the Great do after he received the gift?

Frederic

k Willi

am I

Peter the Great

In return

pass down

stole

FrederickⅠ

Frederick WilliamⅠFrederick WilliamⅠ

Peter the Great Peter the Great CzarCzar

CatherineCatherineⅡⅡ

Nazi

Fill in the form:

Year What happened to the Amber Room

1716

1770

In 1716 , Frederick William I gavethe Amber Room to Peter the Great , as a gift of friendship from Prussia to the Russian people.

In 1770, the Amber Room wascompleted the way Catherine Ⅱwanted it.

1941

2003

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.

Prussia

winter palace in St Petersburg

summer palace outside St Petersburg

Russia

Germany Konigsgerg on the Baltic sea

?

pla

ces

Names of places What is the amber room used for?

St. Petersburg (Winter Palace)

Summer Palace

For the people of St. Petersburg to celebrate the 300th birthday of the city.

Prussia

As a small reception hall for important visitors.

Catherine Ⅱ spent her summers there.

Summer Palace2003

As the palace of FrederickⅠ

Read again

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

T

F

Prussia

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

T

winter

easy F

Read the text again and Read the text again and discuss the main idea of discuss the main idea of

each paragraph.each paragraph.

• 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.

Creation

History

Disappearance

Rebuilding

Description of the Amber Room

Material 1._____

Color Yellow-brown

Design In the 2. ______ popular in those days

Decorations Gold and jewels

Length About 3. ______

Amber

fancy style

4 metres

History of the Amber Room

4. ________ for the palace of Frederick I.

Given to Peter the Great by Frederick William and became part of the Czar’s Ⅰ5. ___________.

Moved to a palace outside St Petersburg by Catherine and 6. ____________ were Ⅱadded to it.

Designed

winter palace

more details

Some furniture and 7. _______________ were removed from the Amber Room by the Russians in wartime, but some of the Nazis stole 8. _______________.

A new Amber Room was 9. ___________ for the people of St Petersburg when they 10. ___________ the 300th birthday of their city.

celebrated

small art objects

the room itself

ready / built

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.

Listen to the tape and follow it to read

the text.

Listening

Discussion

What should we do to protect our

cultural relics?

1. Remember the useful words and

Expressions.

2. Try to use your own words to retell

the story of the Amber Room.

Homework