Reading
Do you know what a cultural relic is?
Cultural relics are traces or features surviving from a past age and serving to remind people of them.
Warming up
Ming Dynasty vase
Look at the pictures below and discuss what they are and whether they are cultural relics or not.
The Taj Mahal (In India)
ivory dragon boat
Mogao Caves (In China)
The Pyramids in Egypt
The Sydney Opera (in Australia)
Cooperative learning
1. Do you know these famous places? If you know, what do you know about them?
2. Which one do you like to visit? Why?
3. What makes a city great and famous? (a long history; cultural relics; many great people; important events taking place there)
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
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 friend-ship. 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
Reading
Task 1: Fast reading
1. What does the text tell us about amber?
2. How many tons of amber were used to make the Amber Room?
3. What else were used to make the room besides amber?
4. Why was the Amber Room first built?
5. When and why did Frederick William I give the Amber Room to Peter the Great?
6. What did Peter the Great give in return?
7. What did Catherine the Great do with the Amber Room？
8. When and how was the Amber Room supposed to have been lost?
1. The king of Prussia who gave the Amber Room as a gift to Russia was___. A. Frederick I B. Frederick William I C. Peter the Great D. Catherine II
B
Task 2: Careful reading
—Detailed information
2. The king of Prussia gave the Amber Room to Russia because_____. A. he wanted to marry Catherine II. B. he was kind. C. he needed better soldiers D. he wanted to make friends
D
3. The Amber Room was stolen by___. A. Russian soldiers B. German soldiers C. People in Konigsberg D. People in St Petersburg
4. In 1941, the city of Konigsberg was in ___. A. Germany B. Russia C. Sweden D. France
B
A
C
5. The Russians didn’t hide the Amber Room because ______. A. they were at war B. the couldn’t find a place C. the German soldiers arrived too soon D. no train could take it away
Paragraph 1. How was the Amber
Room made?
Paragraph 2. Why did the King of
Prussia give the Amber Room to the
Czar of Russia as a gift?
Task 3: Main idea of each paragraph
Paragraph 3. How did the Amber Room
become one of the wonders of the world.
Paragraph 4. How did the Amber Room
get lost.
Paragraph 5. How was a new Amber
Room built.
Task 4 Fill in the form:
In 1716 , Frederick William I gave
the Amber Room to Peter the Great , as a gift of friendship from Prussian 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 missing.
In the spring of 2003, a new Amber Room was built at the Summer Palace, and it was 300 years old.
Amber
fancy style
4 metres
Designed
winter palace
more details
celebrated
small art objects
the room itself
ready / built
Read the text again and tell whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
1. It took some best artists about ten years to make the old Amber Room.
2. The Amber Room served as a reception hall for the guests of Frederick I.
T
F
3. The Amber Room was taken apart, put inside some wooden boxes and taken away by the Nazis.
4. The new Amber Room was built at the winter palace.
T
F
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?
Explanation
1. rare: 稀罕的, 稀有的
a rare disease 罕见的病
2. valuable 贵重的, 有价值的
Gold is valuable because it is a scarce metal.
3. survive vt &vi 幸存
Fortunately he survived the traffic accident.
Camels can survive for many days with no water.
survivor (n.) 幸存者
survival (n.) 幸存
The helicopter picked up all the ________.
They prayed for the _______ of the sailors
survivors
survival
could
couldn’t
4. 情态动词+have done (对过去发生的事实的推测)
He paid for a seat when he _____ have entered free. (could /would / must / need)
I _______ have been more than six years old when the accident happened. (shouldn’t / couldn’t / mustn’t / needn’t)
5. gift 礼物; 天赋
He has got lots of birthday gifts.
He is a man of gifts. 他多才多艺。
The boy has a gift for music.
gifted (adj.) 有天赋的
6. amazing 令人惊喜的
an amazing achievement/discovery
惊人的成就/发现
amazed adj.吃惊的, 惊奇的
I was amazed at his stupidity.
Visitors were _____ at the _____ soaring drive of our shipbuilders.A. amazed; amazing   
B. amazed; amazed  
C. amazing; amazing  
D. amazing; amazed
7. This gift was the Amber Room, which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it.
[考点] which引导非限制性定语从句。
[考例1] The road conditions there turned out to be very good, ______ was more than we could expect. (2008 全国卷II)
A. it B. what
C. which D. that
[点拨] which引导非限制性定语从句，指代前面整个句子的内容; that一般不引导非限制性定语从句; it, what都不能引导定语从句。
[考例2] The Science Museum, ______ we visited during a recent trip to Britain, is one of London’s tourist attractions. (江苏 2008)
A. which B. what
C. that D. where
[点拨] which代指the Science Museum，在从句中作宾语；where也可引导非限制性定语从句，但它在从句中作状语。
8. design (v. / n.)
(1) They ________ the building carefully.
(2) The experiment ____________ test the new drug. (打算将…用作…)
(3) I like the ______ of the new school.
(4) Children above 12 are able to take part in skiing or other activities ________ (design) for them. (05丰台统考)
designed
designed
is designed to
design
9. fancy adj.
(1) fancy clothes 新奇服装
(2) Fancy meeting you here! 想不到在这儿见到你了!
(3) I don’t fancy walking in the snow. 我不喜欢在雨中行走。
have a fancy for… 爱好,爱上,入迷
fancy sb. doing sth. 想象某人做某事
10. It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, which took the country’s best artists about ten years to make.
[点拨] 本句是一个主从复合句。 逗号前为主句，其中“decorated with gold and jewels”为过去分词短语作treasure的后置定语；逗号后为which 引导的非限制性定语从句，修饰先行词treasure。take sb. some time表示“花了某人一些时间”。这个结构也可改写为句型：it takes sb. some time to do sth.。
如：
The job was very difficult, which took the workers ten months to do.
这项工作十分困难，它花费了工人们十个月的时间。
It took me quite a long time to understand the meaning of the painting.
我花了相当长的时间才理解了那幅画的意义。
11. However, the next King of Prussia, Frederick William Ⅰ, to whom the amber room belonged, decided not to keep it.
[考点] 介词+关系代词引导的非限制性定语从句。
[考例1] He was educated at the local high school, ______ he went on to Beijing University. (江苏2007)
A. after which B. after that
C. in which D. in that
[点拨] 根据句子意思可知从句的动作发生在主句之后，所以用介词after, which指代的是前面的整个句子。
[考例2] Last week，only two people came to look at the house， ______ wanted to buy it. (安徽2007)
A． none of them
B． both of them
C． none of whom
D． neither of whom
[点拨] 根据句子意思可知定语从句的先行词是only two people, 这样就可以确定应选neither 或both, 根据句子结构可知后面句子作定语从句，故选D。
12. in return 回报, 作为报酬
What can we do for them in return for
all the help they have given us?
我们将怎样来报答他们所给予我们的
种种帮助呢?
I gave him some books in return for
his assistance.
in turn 轮流地, 依次; 反过来
by turns 轮流地, 时而…时而…
13. 区别：state, country, nation, 三个词都表示“国家”: state则重于政权, country 则重于疆土, 而nation 则重于民族
Our ________ is larger than Japan.
Our Chinese ______ is playing an
important role in the world now.
Anyone who gives out the _____
secret will be punished seriously.
country
nation
state
14. serve as 用作, 适合
That cup will serve as a sugar bowl.
serve 服务, 供职
serve under the king
serve for 为谁服务
I have served for this company for 2
years.
15. In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted.
[点拨] the way 后接定语从句时，有三种形式：
1）省略关系代词；
2）用关系代词that连接；
3）用in which连接。另外，本句中the way前省略了in。
如：
She was pleased with the way （that / in which） he had accepted her criticism.
她对他接受批评的态度很满意。
We admired him for the way (that / in which) he faces his difficulties.
我们欣赏他面对困难的方式。
16. 介词+名词 (表状态)
at war/work/home/table
on show/duty/sale/holiday/fire/watch
in trouble/danger/battle/doubt
under repair/discussion/construction
17. There’s no doubt that…
There’s no need to do / for sth / sb
There’s no possibility that…
(It’s) no wonder (that)…难怪…
Do you doubt ____ she will succeed?
I doubt _________ he will keep his word.
I have no doubt ____ he will win the game.
that
if/whether
that
[考例] Some researchers believe that there is no doubt ______ a cure for AIDS will be found. (广东 2005)
A. which B. that
C. what D. whether
[点拨] There is no doubt that ... 为固定用法，意为“毫无疑问……”。
18. remain (1) vi. 留下, 遗留
I went to the city, but my brother remained at home.
(2) link-verb. 后接n. /adj. /介词短语/表位置的adv.
My friend became a boss, but I remained a teacher.
The death of