Unit 1 Cultural relics

What is your favorite city? Why? What makes a city great? a long history many great people important events taking place there cultural relics

What is a cultural relic ? What is a cultural relic ? A cultural relic is something that has survived for a long time, often a part of something old that has remained when the rest of it has been destroyed. It tells people about the past. It is usually rare.

According to the definition, what characteristics does a cultural relic have ? mysterious mysterious precious old valuable rare rare cultural relic Do you have any in your family? … ……

There are mainly three kinds of cultural heritage: historic objects （文物）, historic sites （遗址） and ancient buildings （建筑群）.

Ming Dynasty vases

Taj Mahal

ivory dragon boat

Mogao Caves

Can you name some of the cultural relics in China or the world?

the Forbidden City

The Great Wall in China

The terracotta warriors

The Pyramids in Egypt

Stonehenge ( 巨石群） in Britain Salisbury （索尔兹伯里） plain

The Big Ben (In England)

Let’s see some amber production.

color yellow- brown feel Amber is the form of from trees.Amber is the fossil( 化石 )form of resin( 树脂 ) from trees. It takes to form. It takes millions of years to form. feel as hard as stone What is amber?

amber beautiful rare/precious C a n y o u i m a g i n e a h o u s e m a d e o f a m b e r ?

In Search Of The Amber Room Reading What’s the amber room like? Several tons of amber were used to make it The selected amber had a beautiful yellow- brown colour like honey The design of the room was in the fancy style Decorated with gold and jewels It took the best artists about ten years to make

According to the text,do the true or false exercises. 1.Frederick William I was the King of Russia. 2. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days. 3.The Amber Room was made up of several kilos of amber. 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. F Prussia T Ftons Fwinter T

The following five questions summarize the main ideas of the Five paragraphs in the passage. Put the paragraph numbers in the boxes.. 1 How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of the world? How did the Amber Room get lost? How was a new Amber room built? How was the Amber Room made? Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of Russia as a gift?

Frederick William Ⅰ Peter the Great Czar Catherine Ⅱ Frederick Ⅰ

Join the correct parts of the sentences together. 1.Frederick Ⅰ 2.Frederick William Ⅰ 3.Peter the Great 4.Catherine Ⅱ 5.The Nazi army 6.The Russian and Germans A stole the Amber Room. B sent a troop of his best soldiers to the King of Prussia. C had the Amber Room made. D had it moved outside St Petersburg. E gave it to the Czar as a gift. F built a new Amber Room after studying pictures of the old one.

Peter the Great Czar Catherine Ⅱ Frederick Ⅰ 1.What did these people do to the Amber Room? 2.What happened in these years? In 1716,in 1770, in september1941,in 2003 Frederick William Ⅰ

Frederick Ⅰ Frederick William Ⅰ pass down

Frederick William I Peter the Great In return as a gift

pass down Catherine Ⅱ Peter the Great

stolen Nazi Catherine II

Frederick Ⅰ Frederick William Ⅰ Peter the Great, the Czar the Czar Catherine Ⅱ Nazi recently

rebuilt built lost added to more details gave to sb. as a gift stolen

Fill in the blanks: The Amber Room was a _______ that Frederick William Ⅰ, the King of Prussia gave to Peter the Great. In _____, the Czar sent him a _____of his best soldiers. The Amber Room which took the country’s best ______ about ten years to make was a treasure _________ with gold and jewels. So it served as a small ________hall for important visitors. Later it was moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where Catherine Ⅱ told her artists to add more _____ to it. It was completed in 1770 and was considered one of the ________ in the world. But after September 1941 when the two countries were at ____it was missing. Where the Amber Room remains a _______. gift return troop artists decorated reception details wonders war mystery

In groups discuss: Is it worth rebuilding lost cultural relics such as the Amber Room or Yuan Ming Yuan in Beijing? Give your reasons.

1. Try to tell one story of one of the Chinese cultural relics 2. Read the text as fluently as you can.