Unit 1 Cultural relics
Do you know what a cultural relic is?
Cultural relics are traces（痕迹） or features（特征） surviving from a past age and serving to remind people of them.
Warming up
Let’s travel together
Boys and girls
Name:
Place:
Time:
Importance:
The Great Wall
Beijing
Since 475BC
The symbol of China and its culture.
Name:
Place:
Time:
Importance:
the Forbidden City(紫禁城)
Beijing
The largest museum of cultural relics in China
1406 (the Ming Dynasty)
Name:
Place:
Time:
Importance:
The Great Pyramid （金字塔）
Egypt
Around the year 2560 BC
The only surviving of the Seven Ancient Wonders
Now, welcome back to our class
1.Do you know what they are?
Cultural relics文化遗产
2.Do cultural relics only refer to buildings?
3.Can you give some other examples?
The Mona Lisa 蒙娜丽莎的微笑
The Statue of Liberty 自由女神像
Do you know these?
Ming Dynasty vase
明朝花瓶

China（中国）
China（瓷器）

This vase is a kind
of china which was
made in China.
Taj Mahal
泰姬陵

tomb
India
1631~1653
romance
ivory dragon boat
象牙镂雕龙舟
The Dragon Boat Festival
Mogao Caves
莫高窟（ 千佛洞 ）
According to the definition（定义）, what characteristics(特征、性质） does a cultural relic have?
mysterious（神秘的）
precious
old
valuable
rare
cultural relic
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Pre-reading
Have you ever seen a piece of amber?


What do you know about it?
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 。
amber
beautiful
rare
Can you imagine a room made of amber?
precious
Can you imagine a house made of amber ?
In Search
of
the Amber Room
What is the Amber Room?
Why was it called the Amber Room?
What was it made for?
What happened to it?
Why to search for it?
In Search of the Amber Room
When you see this title, what do you want to know?
1.Why was it called the Amber Room?
2.What was it made for?
Because almost seven thousand tons of
amber were used to make it.
It was made for the palace of Frederick I.
3.Why to search for it?
Because it was one of the great wonders
of the world and now it is missing.
Fast reading Task I Now let’s answer three of them
2.Frederick WilliamⅠ
3.Peter the Great
4.CatherineⅡ
characters
1.FrederickⅠ
What did these four
people do to the Amber
Room?

2.What happened in
these four years (1716;
1770; 1941; 2003)?
2.Frederick WilliamⅠ
3.Peter the Great
4.CatherineⅡ
1.FrederickⅠ
1716
1770
1941
2003
Frederick WilliamⅠgave the Amber Room to Peter the Great_________.
Catherine Ⅱ_____ more details to the Amber room.
The Nazi German army _____ the Amber Room.
The ________of the Amber Room was completed.
years
as a gift
stole
rebuilding
added
Prussia
winter palace
in St Petersburg
summer palace
outside St Petersburg
Russia
Germany
Konigsberg on the Baltic sea
?
places
the palace of
Frederick
places
How did the Amber Room become
one of the wonders of the world?
How was a new Amber Room built?
How did the Amber Room get lost?
How was the Amber Room made?
Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of Russia as a gift?
Para 3
Para 5
Para 4
Para 1
Para 2
The main idea of each paragraph
2
Careful reading:
Paragraph 1: The Amber Room and its________
Paragraph 2-3: ___________ of the Amber Room
Paragraph 4: _____________ of the Amber Room
Paragraph 5: _______________of the Amber Room
design
The history
The missing
The rebuilding
Four parts
An introduction of
the Amber Room
The best and biggest work of amber art ever made.
（有史以来所制作的最大最好的琥珀艺术作品）
Yellow-brown
In the fancy style popular in those days
10 years for a team of the country’s best artists.
Para.1
A gift to Peter the Great
Q1: What was the amber room first made for?
It was first made for the palace of Frederick I.
Para.2:
Q2: What happened to the Amber Room in 1716?
1. his in St Petersburg.
2. a small for important visitors.
as a gift of friendship
gave to
in return
to
Served as
Sent him his best soldiers
Peter the Great
a troop of
winter palace
reception hall
Frederick William I
Frederick I
(1716)
The changes of the Amber Room
Who had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg?
A. Frederick William I B. Catherine II
C. Peter the Great D. Frederick I
pass down
Peter the Great
Catherine II
Para. 3:
In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted.
(add more details)
The missing of the Amber Room
Time :
Event:
1941
Russia
(the Russians)
Nazi Germany
(the Nazis)
at war
stole .
the Nazis arrived
sent it to Konigsberg.
After that, what happened to the Amber Room was .
were only able to
remove .
furniture and small art objects
the Amber Room
a mystery
Para. 4:
A new Amber Room
Qs:
1. Who have built a new Amber Room?
2. How old is St Petersburg now?
The Russians and Germans.
312 years old now.
Para.5:
The clue of the story
Peter the Great Czar
CatherineⅡ
FrederickⅠ
Frederick WilliamⅠ
Nazi
FrederickⅠ
Frederick WilliamⅠ
Nazi
pass down
given as a gift
pass down
stolen
Post-reading
Design/material
The history of Amber Room.
Built>lost>rebuilt
owner ,present ,move to winter palace, add to more details, remove, to pieces put on trains ,remain a mystery ,300th birthday
built
lost
rebuilt
added more details
gave to sb. as a gift
stolen