2. In Search of the Amber Room Unit1 Cultural relics Reading

3. Enjoy some beautiful pictures and answer: What are they made of? Step1 Warming up

5. What are they made of? They are made of amber.

6. What is amber? 琥珀是史前松树脂的化石。琥珀是由千 万年前植物所分泌出来的树脂, 经过地壳 变动而深埋地下, 逐渐演化而成的一种 天然化石。形成于 4000 万年至 6000 万年 前。没有两块琥珀是完全相同的。含有 完整昆虫或植物的琥珀为珍贵 。

7. Amber is very rare and valuable. If a house is made of amber, it will be…

8. The Amber Room

9. In Search of the Amber Room Reading

10. Tips: While you are reading, try to find out information about: Who What Where When Why How

11. Task1.Try to find out the main idea: It tells us the strange history of the____ _____, a cultural relic of two countries: ______ and______. Step2 Fast reading (5’) Task2. Some people (who are related with the Amber Room) are mentioned ( 提 及 ) in the text. Q1 How many people are mentioned ? Q2 Who are they?

12. It tells us the strange history of the_____ _____, a cultural relic of two countries:_______ and________. Amber Room Germany Russia Task1 Try to find out the main idea:

13. Task2. Some people (who are related with the Amber Room) are mentioned( 提 及 ) in the text. Q1 How many people are mentioned ? 5 people are mentioned. They are Frederick I ， Frederick William I ， Peter the Great ， Catherine II and the Nazi army. Q2 Who are they?

14. Step3 Careful reading (16’) Task1 Read Para1 and fill in: (4’) Information about the Amber Room Color ______________ Design How long was it built? Yellow-brown In the _____ ______ popular in those days It took of the country’s best artists about ____ years to make it. fancy style 10

15. Task2 Read Para2 and try to find out: Who? What? When? (4’) Who: Frederick I ， Frederick William I ， Peter the Great

16. Task2 Read Para2 and try to find out: Who? What? When? (4’) What: 1) The Amber Room first was ______ for Frederick I. 2) In_____, Frederick William I ______ the Amber Room to Peter the Great. 3) In return, Peter the Great ______ Frederick William I a troop of his best soldiers. designed 1716 gave sent

17. Task3 Read Para3 and judge if they are true or false.(3’) 1)Peter the Great had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg. ( ) 2) Catherine II’s artists finished decorating the Amber Room in 1770. ( ) 3) There were only mirrors in the Amber Room. ( ) F T F

18. Task4 Listen to Para4 and try to catch the missing words.(3’) 1)This was a time _____the two countries were _____ _____. 2)However, some of the Nazis secretly _______ the room ______. 3) In ____ ____ two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven _______boxes. when at war stoleitself Less than wooden

19. Task5 Read Para5 together and answer: (2’) Q1 Who built a new amber room? Q2 Is the new amber room the one that was from Prussia ? The Russians and the Germans built…… No, it is not.

20. Step4 Sum up The Amber Room was 1_____gift of friendship from Prussia 2_____Russia. It was made 3____ several tons of amber. The amber which was4_____(select) to build the Amber Room was very5 _____(beauty). It took a team of the country’s best 6_____ (art) ten years to make the Amber Room. 7______(luck), it was stolen 8______ the Nazis during the World War II and lost forever. No one has ever known 9____ really happened to it. Now, a new Amber that looks much like the old 10_____ has been built by the Russians and the Germans.

21. The Amber Room was 1_____gift of friendship from Prussia 2____Russia. It was made 3____ several tons of amber. The amber which was4__________(select)to build the Amber Room was very5 ________(beauty). It took a team of the country’s best 6_______ (art) ten years to make the Amber Room. 7__________(luck), it was stolen 8______ the Nazis during the World War II and lost forever. No one has ever known 9_____ really happened to it. Now, a new Amber that looks much like the old 10______ has been built by the Russians and the Germans. a to of selected beautiful artists Unluckily by what one

22. Step5 能力提升 Retell the story according to the pictures.

23. Retell the story Peter the Great （ Czar ） （ Czar ） Catherine Ⅱ Frederick Ⅰ Frederick Ⅰ Nazi Frederick William Ⅰ Nazi p a s s d o w n g i v e … a s a g i f t p a s s d o w n s t o l e

24. Step6 Homework 1. 完成周报第 11 期 彩版 第 4 版 Part1, Part2 2. 结合《全优》，预习本课的 知识点。