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课标人教实验版高一 Module 2

Unit 1

Reading 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

Ming Dynasty vase

The Pyramids in Egypt

The Taj Mahal (In India)

The Sydney Opera (in Australia)

ivory dragon boat

Mogao Caves (In China)

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. What do you think of the cultural relics?

2. Suppose one of them got lost, how would you feel and what will you do with it?

(Try our best to find it; Protect the others in order that they will not get lost; Rebuild a new one if we really can’t find it.)

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

had her artists add more details to its Ⅱdesign. 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 th

e Amber Room ?8. When and how was the Amber Room su

pposed 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 paragraphTask 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:

Year What happened to the Amber Room

1716

1770

In 1716 , Frederick William I gavethe Amber Room to Peter the Great , as a gift of friendship from Prussian to the Russian people.

In 1770, the Amber Room wascompleted the way Catherine Ⅱwanted it.

1941

2003

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?

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 accide

nt.

Camels can survive for many days with n

o 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. 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 ________ (d

esign) for them. (05 丰台统考 )

designed

designed

is designed to

design

8. 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

9. 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…

10. 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.

countrynation

state

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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…(1) Do you doubt ____ she will succeed?(2) I doubt _________ he will keep his w

ord.(3) I have no doubt ____ he will win the

game.

thatif/whether

that

14. remain (1) vi. 留下 , 遗留 I went to the city, but my brother rem

ained 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 remai

ned a teacher. The death of the old man remained u

nknown. The problem remains to be discussed.

Nothing remains but to send the invitation out. ( 只要…就行了 )It only remains for me to sign the paper that you gave me. ( 某人所要做的只是某事 )He bought a new book with the _________ ( 剩下的 ) 40 yuan.=He bought a new book with the 40 yuan ___. ( 剩下的 )

remaining

left

--- Why do you look so upset?

--- There are so many

troublesome problems ___.

A. remaining to

settle B.

remained settled

C. remaining to be settled

D. remained to be settled.

C

15. former

a. 以前的 , 从前的Her former husband 她的前夫n. 前者Of the two possibilities, the former

seems more likely.

16. worth, worthy, worth-while 都为 adj.

意为“值得”• worth: be worth + n.   当名词为金钱时 , 表示“…… 值得……”be worth doing sth. “… 某事值得被做”The question is not worth discussing agai

n and again.

• worthy: be worthy of +n.  当名词为抽象名词时表示 “…值得……”  be worthy to be done " 某事值得被做 "

  The question is not worthy to be discus

sed again and again.

• worth-while: be worth-while to do

sth   “值得做某事” It is worth while doing sth

It is worth while sb to do sth.

典型例题It is not ____ to discuss the question a

gain and again.

A. worth   B. worthy  C. worth-while   D. worth while

答案 C. 由 worth 的用法可知,此句只适合词组 be worth-while to do sth. 。因此选 C 。

1. Remember the useful words and

Expressions.

2. Prepare for the next period.

Homework


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