Unit 1 Cultural Relics
Warming up
Pre-reading
Reading
Contents
Post-reading
Pre-reading
Reading
Post-reading
Do you know what cultural relics are?
Cultural relics are traces or features surviving from a past age and serving to remind people of them.
Warming up
Warming up
Ming Dynasty vase
ivory dragon boat
Mogao Caves (In China)
The Taj Mahal (In India)
Pre-reading
Pre-reading
In Search of the Amber Room
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
1. How was the Amber Room made?
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
3. How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of the world.
4. How did the Amber Room get lost.
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.
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?