1. Book2
Unit 1 Cultural relics
金台高级中学 李景萍

2. Warming up

3. Let’s enjoy some pictures about cultural relics.
Ming Dynasty vase

4. The Taj Mahal (In India)

5. ivory dragon boat

6. Mogao Caves (In China)

7. The Pyramids in Egypt

8. The Sydney Opera (in Australia)

9. The Big Ben (In England)

10. The Great Wall

11. Temple of Heaven

12. The Imperial Palace

13. 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.

14. It is any object, building or that was made something in the past
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.

15. It tells us something of the way people lived at the time it was made
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.

16. Unit 1
Reading

17. 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

18. Words preview
artist
belong
troop
reception
remove
wooden
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

19. 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

20. 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.

21. Amber

22. Can you imagine a house made of amber?
rare/precious
beautiful
amber

23. In Search of the Amber Room (Prussia)

24. 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.

25. places characters years
Listening
Listen carefully and find out characters ,years ,
and places in the passage.
places
characters 3 1
years 2

26. FrederickⅠ characters CatherineⅡ Peter the Great Czar
Frederick WilliamⅠ
CatherineⅡ

27. What did these people do to the Amber Room?

28. pass down
FrederickⅠ
Frederick WilliamⅠ

29. give as a gift
Peter the Great Czar
Frederick WilliamⅠ

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

31. Frederick William I
Peter the Great
In return

32. pass down

33. stole

34. Summary Nazi CatherineⅡ FrederickⅠ Peter the Great Czar
Frederick WilliamⅠ
CatherineⅡ

35. Fill in the form: Year What happened to the Amber Room 1716 1770
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.

36. 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.

37. places ? Prussia Russia Germany winter palace in St Petersburg
summer palace
outside
St Petersburg
Germany
Konigsgerg on the Baltic sea ?

38. What is the amber room used for?
Read again
paragraph 2-5
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 the palace of FrederickⅠ
As a small reception hall for important visitors.
Catherine Ⅱ spent her summers there.
Summer Palace
2003

39. 1.Frederick William I was the King of Russia.
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

40. 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

41. Read the text again and discuss the main idea of each paragraph.

42. Creation History Disappearance Rebuilding
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

43. 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

44. History of the Amber Room
4. ________ for the palace of Frederick I.
Given to Peter the Great by Frederick William Ⅰand became part of the Czar’s 5. ___________.
Moved to a palace outside St Petersburg by CatherineⅡand 6. ____________ were added to it.
Designed
winter palace
more details

45. 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.
small art objects
the room itself
ready / built
celebrated

46. 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.

47. Listening
Listen to the tape and follow it to read the text.
Discussion
What should we do to protect our
cultural relics?

48. Homework 1. Remember the useful words and Expressions.
2. Try to use your own words to retell the story of the Amber Room.

49. Goodbye！