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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
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
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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