Cultural relics Cultural relics Unit 1 warming up ,pre-reading and reading Book 2 unit I Cultural relics 课件制作人: 玉山一中 徐龙镇 吴永旺

Introduction Cultural relics are physical reminders of what different people used in the past whether they are buildings or personal items. Without these relics, we could not understand cultural traditions as much or appreciate the lives of the people who lived at that time.

Warming up Discussion Look at the three groups of pictures and discuss these questions. 1. Do you know these places? 2. If you know, what do you know about the places? 3. Which one would you like to visit? Why?

Group 1 The Pyramids (Egypt)

Group 2 The Great Wall (China)

Group 3 Stonehenge (Britain)

Reasons for their importance: Answer Reasons for their importance: Symbols of their countries A concrete annotation of their cultures Have a memorable significance Bring in money from tourism ……

As is known to all, China is a country with a history of more than 5,000 years. In the long history, people in different periods have left us quite a number of cultural sites, many of which are world famous.

Please: Look at the following pictures and guess what heritages they are in China

Forbidden City

Potala Palace

It lies at the rock side of the Mingsha Mountain in Ganshu province. Mogao Caves It is made up of 492 caves. It lies at the rock side of the Mingsha Mountain in Ganshu province. It’s worth the name of art treasure.

Mount Huang shan (1990)

Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area (1992)

Classical Gardens of Suzhou (1997)

the rare vases

ivory dragon boat

Pre-reading Do you know what a cultural relic is? Q: that it may or may not be valuable; that it tells us something of the way people lived at the time it was made. This may tell us how the item was used and made. that it is any object, building or item that was made in the past. It may be many thousands of years old or it may be a few hundred;

Do you know something about amber?

What is Amber ? Amber Amber is a hard yellowish brown clear substance

Can you imagine a house made of an amber? rare/precious beautiful Amber

Reading We will learn something about another cultural relic： ---The amber room

In search of the amber room

琥 珀 屋 Amber room

How many persons come up in it and who Task 1 How many persons come up in it and who are they?

Join the correct parts of the sentences together. Stole the Amber Room. Sent a troop of his best soldiers to the King of Prussia. Had the Amber Room made. Had it moved outside St Petersburg. Gave it to the Czar as a gift. Built a new Amber Room after studying pictures of the old one. Frederick I Frederick William I Peter the Great Catherine II The Nazi army The Russians and Germans

1. How many tons of amber were used to make the Amber Room? Task 2 1. How many tons of amber were used to make the Amber Room? 2.What else were used to make the room besides amber? 3.What was the Amber Room first built for? 4.When did Frederick William I give the Amber Room to Peter the Great? Several tons of amber Gold and jewels The palace of Frederick 1 In 1716

5.What did Peter the Great give in return? 6.What did Catherine II do with the Amber Room? 7.How was a new Amber Room built? 8.How did the writer organize the text? A troop of his best soldiers Move it to the palace and add more details to it By studying the photos of the former one Time order

The history of the Amber Room Task 3 Read the passage fast to get general idea of each paragraph and fill in the chart. Paragraphs The general ideas The passage The history of the Amber Room Para. 1 Para. 2 Para. 3 Para. 4 Para. 5 How was the Amber Room made? Why did the King of Prussia give it to Peter the Great? How did it become one of the wonders of the world? How did it get lost? How was the new one built?

Detail reading Read the text again and answer the following questions.

1.What was given to the Russian people as a great gift by Frederick William I ,the king of Prussia? The great Amber Room was given to the Russian people as a great gift by the king.

2.Why it is called the Amber room and how many tons of amber were used to make the Amber Room? Because it was made of almost seven thousand tons of amber, which has a beautiful yellow brown color.

3.What happened to the Amber Room? It was taken apart and missing in the second world war, and the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber room at the summer palace.

4.What happened to the Amber Room? It was taken apart and missing in the second world war, and the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber room at the summer palace.

German city on the Baltic Sea According to this chart , retell its story in your own words the winter palace in St Petersburg Prussia Russia ? German city on the Baltic Sea the summer palace in St Petersburg A strange history

Lesson Conclusion Today we have learned something about the strange history of the Amber Room, a cultural relic of two countries: Germany and Russia. It is a relic which has been lost, and the Amber Room that people can see today is actually a reproduction. ks5u精品课件

Good bye Good bye 词条 图片 互动百科 新知社 小百科 HDWIKI建站 移动 帮助 免费注册 登录 首页 IN词 图片 小组 任务 积分换礼 百科分类 知识官网 全球最大中文百科                                      Good bye Good bye 4/4                                                                      此图为琥珀屋 词条：琥珀