M2U1 Cultural Relics-reading
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.
Task2. Retelling
The Amber Room was a _______ that Frederick WilliamⅠ, the King of Prussia gave to Peter the Great. In _____, 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 Ⅱ told her artists to add more _____ 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 _______.
Task3. Role play
Suppose you are the guide of the Amber Room!
You are going to introduce the Amber Room to visitors.
What are you going to introduce?
Basic information: made of ...
History: 1716 1770 1941 2003