M2U1 Cultural Relics-reading
Unit 1 Cultural Relics
Reading--In Search of the Amber Room 导学案
Learning objectives
1. Ss will be able to learn a passage describing cultural relics with the order of time.
2. Ss will be able to master the usage of language points in the passage.
1. Before class:
Match the words to their explanations.
1. select a. to choose carefully
2. rare b. to surprise somebody very much
3. reception c. no more than
4. amaze d. not seen or found very often
5. less than e. made of wood
6. wooden f. welcome area in a hotel
7. in search of g. in a situation in which two sides fight each other
8. survive h. person who creates things which can be considered
works of art
9.remove i. to manage to live or continue in difficulties
10. artist j. trying to find something; looking carefully for something
11. former k. to take something away
12. at war l. of an earlier period or time. Happening before
13.decorate： m. to be the property of; to be a part of; to be a member of.
14.belong to: n. as repayment
15.in return: o. to make more attractive by adding ornament, color, etc. Finish the following questions.
Q1: What is a cultural relic?
Q2: Can you write down some characteristics of cultural relics, such as, rare…？
Q3: Are cultural relics only objects or can they be buildings too?
Q4: Can you name some cultural relics in China or abroad? (give some examples)
2. In class:
Pre-reading: Make a guess according to the title before reading.
People are searching for the amber room, because ________.
A. It is still in Russia. B. It is missing.
1） The following five questions summarize the main ideas of the five paragraphs in the passage. Put the paragraph numbers in the boxes. Then answer the questions.
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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?
2） While-reading
Para2 : Translate the following sentence into Chinese
However, the next King of Prussia, Frederick William I, to whom the amber room belonged, decided not to keep it. In1716 he gave it to Peter the Great. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________。
Para3 : Answer the following question.
What did Catherine II do with the Amber Room?
① ____________________________________________________________ ② ____________________________________________________________
Para4 : True or false (T/F)
( ) Germany and Russia were at war in 1941
( ) All things in the Amber Room were stolen.
3） Post-reading
Task1. Join the correct parts of the sentences together..
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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