1. Unit 1

2. Unit 1
Cultural relics

3. Do you know what a cultural relic is?

8. which
rare
valuable
survived
destroyed
preserved
past

9. pictures and tell whether they are cultural relics and not:
Discuss the following
pictures and tell whether they are cultural relics and not:

13. Have you ever seen a piece of amber? What do you know about it?
Amber is a hard yellowish brown clear
substance. It is often used for jewels
and decorative objects.
yellow-brown
feel as hard as stone

18. Read the passage quickly, then get the main idea of the text.
It tells us the history of the _______ ______, a cultural relic of two countries _________ and ______.
Amber
Room
Germany
Russia

19. Read the passage and join the correct parts of the sentences together.

20. 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.
1 Frederick I
2 Frederick William I
3 Peter the Great
4 Catherine II
5 The Nazi army
6 The Russians and Germans

21. Read the passage carefully, get the main idea of each paragraph, then fill in the blanks.

22. An introduction of the Amber Room.
yellow-brown
Color
Birthplace
Style
Material
Time of
building it
Prussia
fancy style
amber (several tons)
gold
jewels
10 years

23. The King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of Russia as a gift.
In 1716, __________________ gave it to Peter the Great for a troop of his best soldiers. The Amber Room became part of the Czar’s winter palace and was used as a small ______________.
Frederick William I
reception hall

24. How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of the world?
___________ moved it to a palace outside St Petersburg, lit by six hundred ________, its mirrors and pictures shining like gold.
Catherine II
candles

25. How did the Amber Room get lost?
Russians
Removed _________ and small ________.
The Nazi
Stole the room.
Put _______ pieces into
____ boxes.
Put them on a _____ to
Königsberg.
furniture
objects
100,000 27
train

26. How was a new Amber Room built?
the Russians and Germans
Who
How
When
Why
based on old photos of the former one
2003
celebrate the 300th birthday of their city

27. Choose the correct number and put them into the sentence below.
4, tons of, 27, 10, six hundred, 300th
1. In 2003, the people of St Petersburg celebrated the _______ birthday of their city.
300th

28. 2. The Amber Room got its name because several ________ amber were used to build it.
3. The Amber Room functioned as a small reception hall for VIPs because it was only about ____ metres long.
4. It took the country’s best artists about _____ years to decorate the Amber Room.
tons of 4 10

29. 5. After the detailed decorations of Catherine II, there were almost ___________ candles lighting the room.
6. The Nazis put 100,000 pieces of the Amber Room inside _____ wooden boxes and took them away.
six hundred 27

30. Put the events in the correct order.
A. Catherine II had the room decorated.
B. Fredrick William I had the Amber room built.
C. The Russians took away some objects from the room.
D. The Amber Room was given to Peter the Great as a gift.
E. A new Amber Room was built.
F. The Nazi army stole the room.
Key: B D A C F E

31. Is it worth rebuilding lost cultural relics such as the Amber Room or Yuanmingyuan in Beijing? Give your reasons.

32. the cost
whether an object or building can be faithfully reproduced
whether it helps people better understand the reasons why such a building was destroyed

33. 1. Rewrite the story of Amber Room.
2. Find the difficult words, expressions and sentences in the text.