Book 2 金台高级中学 李景萍

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

Temple of Heaven

The Imperial Palace

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

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 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 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 (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 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. Background

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

Frederick William Ⅰ Peter the Great Czar Catherine Ⅱ Frederick Ⅰ

What did these people do to the Amber Room?

Frederick Ⅰ Frederick William Ⅰ pass down

Peter the Great Czar give as a gift Frederick William Ⅰ

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

Frederick William I Peter the Great In return

pass down

stole

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

Fill in the form: YearWhat happened to the Amber Room 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.

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 ? places

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 Palace 2003 As the palace of Frederick Ⅰ 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 discuss the main idea of 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 Material1._____ ColorYellow-brown DesignIn the 2. ______ popular in those days DecorationsGold and jewels LengthAbout 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 Ⅰ and became part of the Czar’s 5. ___________. Moved to a palace outside St Petersburg by Catherine Ⅱ and 6. ____________ were added 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