Unit 1
Cultural relics
Warming up
Do you know what a cultural relics is?

What kind of old things are cultural relics?
The Great Wall is one of the wonders of the world that created by man being!

Man often says:“ The man who has not climbed The Great Wall is not the true man!”
Cultural relics in China
The forbidden city
Polata Palace
Terracotta Warriors
Mogao Caves ( Gansu )
Yuan Ming Yuan
These vases are kinds of china which was made in China.
ivory dragon boat
Have you been to other countries and seen their cultural relics?
The Pyramids in Egypt
Near the capital city of Egypt --- Cairo.
Made of stones.
The tombs of the Egyptian kings and queens.
The Eiffel Tower


Paris
The Big Ben Clock
London
The Taj Mahal
India
the tombs of an Emperor’s wife
the symbol of India and it’s culture.
Triumphal Arch
Famous; built in 1806.

The symbol of France and its culture.

Used for celebrating the win in wars.
The Mona Lisa
Painted by Leona da Vinci about 500 years ago.
The most famous painting in the history of art.
It’s famous for her smile.
the similarities of them
Famous
with a long history
telling us stories of the past
Symbols of their countries and cultures
cultural relics is something that has survived for a long time, after a part of something old that has remained when the rest of it has been destroyed; it tells people about the past.
Are all the old things cultural relics?
No, not all the old things are cultural relics.
Do you know what material they were made of?
Presentation
ceramics
ivory
gold
stone
Pre-reading
Have you ever seen a piece of amber? What do you know about it?
Amber
Can you imagine a house made of amber?
precious
beautiful
rare
valuable
Do you know what it is called?
Amber Room
Fast reading
How many tons of amber were used to make the Amber Room?
What else were used to make the room besides amber?
When and why did Frederick William I give the Amber Room to Peter the Great?
What did Peter the Great give in return?
What happened to the Amber Room in September 1941?
Frederick William 1
Peter the Great
1716
as a gift of friendship
a troop of his best soldiers
in return
1770 completed
September 1941
secretly stole the room.
Catherine II
Nazi
Amber Room
The passage tells the story of the Amber Room in the order of time so that we can clearly know what happened to it.
Join the correct parts of the sentences together.
Careful reading
Frederick I
Frederick William I
Peter the Great
Catherine II
The Nazi army
The Russians and Germans
stole the Amber Room
sent a troop of his best soldiers to the King of Prussia.
had the Amber Room made
had it moved outside St Petersburg.
gave it to the Czar as a gift
built a new Amber Room after studying pictures of the old one
Please catch the main idea of each paragraph
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 5
The following five questions summarize the main idea of the five paragraphs in the passage.
How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of the worlds?
How was a new Amber Room built?
How was the Amber Room made?
How did the Amber Room get lost?
Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of Russia as a gift?
3
5
1
4
2
Homework
1. Review the text and the new words and expressions.
2. Retell the story of your own words.
was designed for
was given
added more…
was stolen
was missing
was rebuilt for
served as
1716
was moved…
later
1770
In return
1941
at war
Retell the text according to the following clues.