1. Explain the following in English:
1.survive doubt
3. amaze select
5.remove decorate
7. rare former
9. evidence sink

2. Do you know what a cultural relic is? 文化遗产日 Cultural Relics Day
the Second Saturday of June
Do you know
what a cultural
relic is?

3. Cultural Relics the Great Wall
A man who doesn’t go to is not a true man.
the Great Wall
Cultural Relics

4. What is a cultural relic ?
A cultural relic is something rather rare 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.

5. Guess what these cultural relics are

6. TAJ MAHAL（泰姬陵） It is located in India.
It is the grave a king built for his wife.
It showed the deep love of the king and queen.

7. The Leaning Tower of Pisa（比萨斜塔）
[‘li:niŋ]
It is the famous Italy building.
It got the name leaning tower because it leans to the earth.
It actually used for telling people time.

8. London Tower It is located in central London.
It was once used as the castle and later the prison for royal prisoners. This last use had led to the phrase "sent to the Tower"
Now, it becomes the scenery for the people all over the world.

9. The Pyramid It is located in Egypt now it became the grave
after the king died.

10. [‘stætju:] The Statue of Liberty
It was given to the United States by the people of France to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
What did the Goddess hold in her hands?

11. What are the similarities of these cultural relics?
discussion
What are the similarities of these cultural relics?
1)world famous
2)man-made
3)a long history
4)symbols of their countries and cultures

12. What is an amber room?
A room made of amber

13. Pre-reading What is amber? ‘ [ fɔsl] ‘ [ rezin] color yellow- brown
feel like
Amber is the fossil(化石)form of resin(树脂) from trees.
It takes millions of years to form.
feel as hard as stone
[ fɔsl] ‘
[ rezin] ‘

14. Have you ever seen anything made of amber?
rare/precious
beautiful
amber

15. What can you infer from the title ?
IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM
The Amber Room was ____________
missing / lost

16. 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

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

18. FrederickⅠ Russians& Germans characters CatherineⅡ Nazi army
Peter the Great Czar
Russians&
Germans
characters
Frederick WilliamⅠ
CatherineⅡ
Nazi army

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

20. pass down
FrederickⅠ
Frederick WilliamⅠ

21. give as a gift Where? A troop of soldiers In return
Frederick WilliamⅠ
In return
Peter the Great Czar
A troop of soldiers

22. Where?
pass down
Move/add details

23. Where?
Be stolen
take apart
Put inside/
Put on a train

24. Where?
Russians & Germans

25. Frederick WilliamⅠ gave the Amber Room
to Peter the Great as a gift.
1716
years
1770
Catherine Ⅱhad completed the adding to the Amber room
1941
The Nazi German army stole the Amber Room
2003
The rebuilding of the Amber Room was completed.

26. give/in return Be designed for the palace Nazi pass down add/move
Prussia
Russia
Germany
Russia
Be designed for the palace
Nazi
FrederickⅠ
Steal/take apart
Put inside/
Put on a train
Peter the Great Czar
pass down
add/move
Konigsberg
give/in return
Frederick WilliamⅠ
CatherineⅡ
rebuild

27. The King of ________, Frederick I, had the
_____________ built in 1709, and in 1716, the
next king, Frederick William I gave it to the
Russian Czar, Peter the Great ,as a _______ in
St Petersburg. In _______, Peter the Great sent
him _______________ best soldiers. After Peter
the Great, Catherine II ________ the Amber
Room outside St Petersburg and told her artists to
Prussia
Amber Room
gift
return
a troop of
moved

28. ____________________. In 1770, the room
________________ in the way she wanted.
In 1941, ________ stole the Amber Room and
took pieces of the room to _______________.
After that, the Amber Room got ________.
Recently, the Russians and Germans have
________ the Amber Room by _____________
_______ of the former one.
add more details
was completed
the Nazis
Königsberg
lost
rebuilt
studying old
photos

29. 1.     文化遗产
2.     调查
3.     属于
4.     迷路，丢失
5.     寻找
6.     这样一段离奇的历史
7.     用奇特的风格
8.     像石头一样硬
9.     被制成
10.  琥珀艺术品.
11.  为…而做
cultural relics
look into
belong to
get lost
in search of
such a strange history
be in the fancy style
as hard as stone
be made into
the work of amber art
be made for

30. celebrate the birthday of…
four meters long
12.  四米长
13.  作为回报
14. 添加…到…
15.  世界上的伟大奇迹
16.  处于交战状态
17.  少于
18.  毫无疑问
19.  庆祝第…个生日/纪念日
in return
add … to
the great wonders of the world
be at war
less than
no doubt
celebrate the birthday of…