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Unit 1 Unit 1 Cultural Cultural relicsrelics
What is your favorite city? Why?
What makes a city great?
a long history
many great people
important events taking place there
cultural relics
What is a cultural What is a cultural relic ?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. It is usually rare.
According to the According to the definition, what definition, what characteristics does a characteristics does a cultural relic have ? cultural relic have ?
mysteriousmysterious
preciousprecious
oldold
valuablevaluable rarerare
cultural reliccultural relic
Do you have any in your family? …… …… ……
There are mainly three kinds of cultu
ral heritage: historic objects （文物） ,
historic sites （遗址） and
ancient buildings （建筑群） .
Ming Dynasty vases
Taj Mahal
ivory dragon boat
Mogao Caves
Can you name some of the cultural relics in China or the world?
the Forbidden the Forbidden CityCity
The terracotta warriors
The Pyramids in Egypt
Stonehenge( 巨石群） in Britain
Salisbury （索尔兹伯里） plain
The Big Ben (In England)
Let’s see some amber production.
•color yellow- brown•feel•Amber is the Amber is the fossil( 化石 )form of form of resin( 树脂 ) from trees. from trees.• It takes It takes millions of years to form. to form.
feel as hard as stone
What is amber?
amber
beautiful rare/precious
Can you imagine a house made
of amber ?
In Search Of The Amber Room
Reading
What’s the amber room like?Several tons of amber were used to make it
The selected amber had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honeyThe design of the room was in the fancy style
Decorated with gold and jewels
It took the best artists about ten years to make
According to the text ,do the true or false exercises.
1.Frederick William I was the King of Russia.
2. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days.
3.The Amber Room was made up of several kilos of amber.4. Peter the Great made Amber Room his Summer Palace.5.Catherine II added more details to the Amber Room and made it her Summer Palace.
F Prussia
T
F tons
F winter
T
The following five questions summarize the main ideas of the Five paragraphs in the passage. Put the paragraph numbers in the boxes. .
1 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
Frederick WilliamⅠ
Peter the Great Peter the Great Czar Czar
CatherineCatherineⅡⅡ
FrederickⅠ
Join the correct parts of the sentences together.
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.
Peter the Great Peter the Great Czar Czar
CatherineCatherineⅡⅡ
FrederickⅠ 1.What did these people do to the Amber Room?
2.What happened in these years?
In 1716 ,in 1770,
in september1941,in 2003
Frederick WilliamⅠ
FrederickⅠ Frederick WilliamⅠ
pass down
Frederic
k Willi
am I
Peter the Great
In return
as a gift
pass down
CatherineCatherineⅡⅡPeter the Great
stolen
NaziCatherine II
FrederickⅠ
Frederick WilliamⅠ
Frederick WilliamⅠ
Peter the Peter the Great ,Great ,
the the CzarCzar
CatherineCatherineⅡⅡ
Nazi
17161770
1941
recently
rebuilt
built
lost
added to more details
gave to sb. as a gift
stolen
Fill in the blanks: The Amber Room was a _______ that Frederick William , the King of Prussia gave to Peter the Great. In Ⅰ_____, the Czar sent him a _____of his best soldiers. The Amber Room which took the country’s best ______ about ten years to make was a treasure _________ with gold and jewels. So it served as a small ________hall for important visitors. Later it was moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where Catherine told her artists to add more Ⅱ_____ to it. It was completed in 1770 and was considered one of the ________ in the world. But after September 1941 when the two countries were at ____it was missing. Where the Amber Room remains a _______.
gift
return troopartists
decoratedreception
detailswonders
warmystery
In groups discuss: Is it worth rebuilding lost cultural relics such as the Amber Room or Yuan Ming Yuan in Beijing? Give your reasons.
1. Try to tell one story of one of the Chinese cultural relics
2. Read the text as fluently as you can.