1. Unit 1 Cultural relics
warming up & reading

2. Why？ Do you know them ? They are protected by our local government.
Because they are cultural relics.
Do you know any other cultural relics?
谯楼（鼓楼）
池上楼
泰顺廊桥

3. The Great Wall
Name:
Place:
Time:
Importance:
Beijing
Since 475BC
the symbol of China and its culture.

4. Name:
Place:
Time:
Importance:
The Potala Palace
Lhasa, Tibet
1693
the residence of the Dalai Lama/
one of Tibet's major pilgrimage destinations

5. Name:
Place:
Time:
Importance:
The Great Pyramid of Khufu
Egypt
around the year 2560 BC
the only surviving of the Seven Ancient Wonders

6. Name: The Leaning Tower of Pisa
Place: Italy
Time: 1173
Importance:
It was used for telling people time.

7. The Taj Mahal
Mogao Caves

8. Forbidden City

9. Are they cultural relics too?清代
玉雕翠玉白菜
“猴头”
司母戊大方鼎
王羲之兰亭序
Are they cultural relics too?

10. According to your understandings, what characteristics does a cultural relic have ?
precious
mysterious
priceless
cultural relic
rare
old … … …

11. may or may not be valuable;
For your reference
A cultural relic
is any object, building or item that was made sometime in the past. It may be many thousands of years old or it may be a few hundred;
may or may not be valuable;
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.

13. What do you know about amber?
How does it come into being? Color? usage?...
Amber developed more than 50 million years ago from the resin(树脂) of giant needle forests, which were  flooded later on by the Baltic Sea.
Can you imagine what a room made of amber looks like?

14. In Search of the Amber Room
Prediction: what will the text mainly talk about?

15. How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders
Listen to the tape, try to put paragraph numbers in the following boxes.
How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders
of the world? 3
How was a new Amber Room built? 5
How did the Amber Room get lost? 4
How was the Amber Room made? 1
Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar
of Russia as a gift? 2

16. In search of Amber Room (para 1)
Describe the amber room
Several _____(吨)of amber were used to make the room. The ________(设计) of the room was ______the______ (奇特的)style popular in those days. The amber room was also ________(装饰着) with ______(金)and _______(珠宝_),which took artists _____ years to make it.
tons
design in
fancy
decorated
gold
jewels 10

17. People related to the Amber Room
What’s the relationship between these people and the Amber Room?
People related to the Amber Room
Nazi
Peter the Great Czar
FrederickⅠ
the Russians
and Germans
Frederick WilliamⅠ
CatherineⅡ

18. Amazing history of the Amber Room
Peter the Great
winter palace
reception hall
Frederick I
had it made
Frederick
William I
gave gift
the Russians
and Germans
rebuild
the Nazis
stole
Catherine II
move
add…to
summer palace

19. Role-play What are you going to introduce?
welcome
Suppose you are the guide of the Amber Room.
You are going to introduce the Amber Room to us.
What are you going to introduce?
added to more details
built
gave to sb. as a gift
stolen
lost
rebuilt
Role-play

20. First the Amber Room was made for… Then Frederick WilliamⅠ…
Hello, everyone! I’m glad to introduce …
First the Amber Room was made for…
Then Frederick WilliamⅠ…
It soon became part of the Czar's winter palace in St. Petersburg .
Later, CatherineⅡ … and she told her artists to …
In September, 1941，the Nazi army secretly …
After that, what happened to the Amber Room … Now Russians and Germans have … much like the old one.