Period 1&2 Warming
up and Reading I
Unit 1 Cultural relics
Warming up – I ( 6m )
Look at the three groups of pictures and discuss these questions.
1. Do you know these places?
2. If you know, what do you know about the places?
3. Which one would you like to visit? Why?
Group 1
The Pyramids
in Egypt
Group 2
The Great Wall/China
Group 3
Stonehenge / Britain Salisbury plain
Which one would you like to choose? Why?
Do you know what these things are?
Chinese cultural relics
What is a cultural relic?
A cultural relic is something 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.
夏宫通往芬兰湾的水道
Think of a cultural relic
you know about.
• How would you feel if it got lost? Why?
Try our best to find it ; protect the others in order that they will not get lost; rebuilt a new one if we really can't find it.
• If you find a cultural relic, what will you
do with it?
Hide it for yourself, sell it and earn a lot of money, hand in it to the government or else.
明代永樂窯 青花龍紋天球瓶 高36公分
明代永樂窯 釉裏紅龍紋天球瓶 高43公分
明代永樂窯 釉裏紅白龍紋天球瓶 高45公分
明代永樂窯 青花松竹梅瓶鶴紋天球瓶 高42公分
What are these?
Very rare Ming Dynasty vases
More on the internet
Reasons for their importance
Symbols of their countries
A concrete annotation of their cultures
Have a memorable significance
Bring in money from tourism
……
Show more cultural relics.

As is known to all, China is a country with a history of more than 5,000 years. In the long history, people in different periods have left us quite a number of cultural sites, many of which are world famous. Now look at the pictures and guess what heritage they are.
Warming up – II ( 4m )
Forbidden City
Potala Palace, Lhasa
Mount Huangshan (1990)
Longmen Grottoes (2000)
Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area (1992)
Classical Gardens of Suzhou (1997)
Pre-reading ( 2m )
Students answer the following questions:
What is your favorite city? Why?
What makes a city great?
a long history
cultural relics
many great people
important events taking place there
Join the correct parts of the sentences together.
1
1.Frederick Ⅰ
2.Frederick William Ⅰ
3.Peter the Great
4.Catherine Ⅱ
5.The Nazi army
6.The Russian and Germans
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.
The following five questions summarize the main idea of the
Five paragraphs in the passage. Put the paragraph numbers in
the boxes. Then Answer the questions.
2
How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of the world?
How did the Amber Room get lost?
How was a new Amber room built?
How was the Amber Room made?
Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of Russia as a gift?
3
4
5
1
2
Groups discuss:
Is it worth rebuilding lost cultural relics such as the Amber Room or Yuan Ming Yuan in Beijing? Give your reasons.
Have you ever seen anything made
of amber?
Have you ever heard of amber?
What is this?
Raw amber with inclusions
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，琥珀的主要成分是碳、氢、氧以及少量的硫，硬度2-3，比重1.05-1.10，熔点150C-180C，燃点250C-375C。琥珀是很“涩”的物质，没有两块琥珀是完全相同的。品种有金珀、虫珀、香珀、灵珀、石珀、花珀、水珀、明珀、蜡珀等，尤以含有完整昆虫或植物的琥珀为珍贵 。
Can you imagine
what a room
made of amber
looks like?
Raw
amber
Do you know what picture this is?
A picture of the Amber Room
in St Petersburg in Russia
Only original colour picture
of the Amber Room
1.What was given to the Russian people as a great gift by Frederick William I ,the king of Prussia?
2.Why it is called the Amber room and how many tons of amber were used to make the Amber Room?
3.What did Catherine the Great do with the Amber Room?
4.What happened to the Amber Room?
1.What was given to the Russian people as a great gift by Frederick William I ,the king of Prussia?
The great Amber Room was given to the Russian people as a great gift by the king.
2.Why it is called the Amber room and how many tons of amber were used to make the Amber Room?
Because it was made of almost seven thousand tons of amber, which has a beautiful yellow brown color.
3.What did Catherine the Great do with the Amber Room?
She had the Amber Room moved to the palace outside St Petersburg and transformed it.
4.What happened to the Amber Room?
It was taken apart and missing in the second world war, and the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber room at the summer palace.
Reading – IV ( 3m )
Find out all the people related to the Amber Room from the text.
Frederick I
Frederick William I
Peter the Great
Catherine II
The Nazi German
1. Try to tell the story about the Amber Room.
2. Prepare for the next class.
Language points for reading I
1. Frederick William I, the King of Prussia, could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such a strange history. 普鲁士国王腓特烈·威廉一世从来也不会想到他赠送给俄国人民的礼物会有如此离奇的历史。
could not/never have done 对过去所发生事情的否定推测
2. The design for the room was of the fancy style popular in those days.
琥珀屋的设计具有当时那个年代最流行的奇特风格。
fancy adj. 奇特的，花样的
I don’t feel like making a fancy meal.
vt. 想象,推测,假想
1) Don’t fancy that you can succeed without hard work.
2) I can’t fancy his doing such a thing.
3) I fancied him to be dead.
4) He fancies himself as a good writer.
5) Do you fancy a glass of coffee?
6) I don’t fancy walking in the rain.
fancy + that-/one’s doing sth/sb to be…/sb as/sth/doing sth
of the fancy style
“of +抽象名词”表示人或事物所具有的特征，特性，可在句中做表语或后置定语。
They are of different sizes, but they are the same in weight.
I don’t find anything of interest in today’s newspaper
Your advise is of great help to learners of English.
They are of great help to learners of English.
of great importance=
of interest=
of use=
of value=
of help=
important
interesting
useful
valuable
helpful
of high quality
of different colours
of the same size
of this kind
高质量的
颜色不同的
一样大小的
属于这一类的
3. About four metres long, the room served as a small reception hall for important visitors.
琥珀屋约四米长，做了接待贵宾的小接待厅。
serve as 担任，充当
He served two terms as President.
He served as a waiter there.
When you sleep in the open, old newspapers can serve as a blanket.
4. She told her artists to add more details to its design.
她告诉他的艺术家们将设计方案再增加更多的细节。
add…to…把……加进……里去
He added that he was very pleased with our work.
Please add some sugar to the milk.
Add the score up.
His being absent added to our difficulty.
The money he spent one day added up to about $100.
5. This was a time when the two countries were at war. 这是两国交战时期。
at war 处于战争状态，介词at可表示状态或动作。
at peace at breakfast
at rest at table
at work at school
at the piano at one’s best
6. There is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea. 毫无疑问，这些箱子后来被装上火车运往哥尼斯堡，当时它是波罗的海边的一个德国城市。
There is no doubt
= It’s clear
= It’s beyond argument
Thanks for your listening!