Unit 1 Cultural relics
Warming up and Reading
Warming up by a competition of guessing puzzles among groups
You have some hints.
It’s a building (we can also call it a grave) located in India. One Indian emperor built it for his wife.
( Taj[tɑ:dʒ] Mahal)
It’s a famous mountain located in Taian city Shandong province.
Mount Taishan
They are caves located in Gansu province ,and there are many artworks in the caves.
(The Mogao caves)
They are the graves of kings in Egypt.
(The Pyramids)
The longest wall of the world built in Qi dynasty in order to fight back enemies.
(The Great Wall)
the statue which was designed by a French sculptor as a present for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the United States
Statue of Liberty
It is an abbey located in western London where many famous people are buried, eg, Newton Charles Dickens William Shakespeare
Westminster abbey
Warming up by defining
What kind of things are cultural relics?
Qs
A , Are cultural relics the old things or the modern things?
B, Are they valuable or valueless ?
C, Are they artful or not？
D, To whom do cultural relics belong --all peoples and whole societies, or a certain individual?
Keys for reference: Cultural relics are artful valuable ancient remainders which belong to the whole society.
II. Pre-reading
IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM
Amber :a hard clear yellow-brown substance, used in making decorative objects or jewellery .琥珀
Eg ,amber room 琥珀屋 amber heads 琥珀珠子
In Search of the Amber Room
Frederick William I, the King of Prussia, could never have imagined that his great gift to the Russian people would have such an amazing history. This gift was the Amber Room , which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. The amber which was selected had a beautiful yellow-brown color like honey. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days. It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, which took the country’s best artists about ten years to make.
Amber
fancy style
Task 1: Fill in the chart
2.Yellow-brown
4.Gold and jewels
Task 2: Fast reading
1,What is the main idea of this paragraph ?
(The introduction :how the Amber Room was made)
2. How long did it take to make the Amber Room?
(About ten years)
3. What else were used to make the room besides amber?
(Gold and jewels)
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
Explanation
1.Useful words & expressions
amazing adj. :very surprising/astounding ( refers to sth.) 令人惊喜的
an amazing achievement/discovery
惊人的成就/发现
amazed adj. very surprised ( refers to the feeling of sb.)吃惊的, 惊奇的
I was amazed at his knowledge.
amazing
Visitors were _____ at the _____ soaring drive of our shipbuilders.A. amazed; amazing   
B. amazed; amazed  
C. amazing; amazing  
D. amazing; amazed
Design
Verb: to decide how something will look or work设计 构思
to design a car/a dress 设计汽车/连衣裙
They asked me to design a poster for the sports meet.
他们请我为这次运动会设计一张海报

Noun ：the process of deciding how something will look or work设计； 方案
the design and development of new products
新产品的设计与开发
7. design (v. / n.)
(3) I like the ______ of the new aircraft.
(4) Children above 12 are able to take part in skiing or other activities ________ (design) for them. (05丰台统考)
designed
design
Fancy
adj. usually complicated ;intended to impress other people 花哨的 复杂的 奇特的
fancy clothes 新奇的服装
fancy style

verb 1.feel like doing 想要想做

I don’t fancy walking in the rain. 我不喜欢在雨中行走

Do you fancy going out this evening ?
今晚你想不想出去？
情态动词(modal verb) +have done 表示对过去发生的事情的推测、批评、反悔等
Frederick William I, the King of Prussia, could never have imagined that his great gift to the Russian people would have such an amazing history.
普鲁士国王威廉一世绝不可能想到他送给俄罗斯人民的厚礼会有这样一段令人惊讶的历史

Eg: You should have told me earlier.
你本该早些告诉我

When you firstly spoke in front of your students, you must have felt very nervous.
你第一次面对你的学生讲话时，一定会感到很紧张。
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 / needn’t)
The box has been moved. Someone have been here last night. (could /would / must / need)
could
couldn’t
must
Work in groups. Look at the photos on the screen. All these relics are quite beautiful. But some of them were lost and ruined in history，such as Yuan MingYuan and the Amber Room.
Post-reading
Discussion :
1.What kind of things can result in (cause) their disappearing?
（Keys for reference: Maybe wars ,natural disasters and environment pollution have damaged or destroyed them, getting them lost and changed. Many of them were even stolen and hidden while nobody knows who, where and how. ）
What should we do to protect them?
(To educate people and strengthen our awareness of protecting cultural relics ; to pay more attention to the environment pollution; to enforce laws concerned)
After doing the exercises, you may know well what the paragraph is about. But what is the whole story of the amber room? What happened to the amber room later?
The rest of the text will show you the amazing story.
Homework
Read the following paragraphs and get the main idea of the story.

Tell us the story in your own words next class.
Find more cultural relics of China.
(internet , library)
Thank you.