人教版高一英语必修二 Unit 1 Cultural relics reading 课件(共25张PPT)

Teaching Goals:
1. Target language
a. Key words and phrases (重点词汇和短语)
rare, survive, valuable, dynasty, vase, amaze, amazing, select, honey, design, fancy, style, decorate, jewel, artist, belong, troop, reception, remove, wooden, doubt, former, worth
2. Ability goals能力目标
a.Enable students to learn about the history of Amber Room.
b. Enable students to give opinions on rebuilding lost cultural relics.
3. Learning ability goals学能目标
After learning this reading passage, students should have the ability of reading passages about cultural relics, learn more languages about this topic and have the sense of protecting cultural relics.
Teaching procedures and ways
Lead-in:
Boys and girls, look at the title of this unit, tell me what the topic of this unit is.
The topic of this unit is cultural relics.
Do you know what a cultural relic is?
Warming up
Name:
Place:
Time:
Importance:
The Great Wall
Beijing
Since 475BC
the symbol of China and its culture.
Name:
Place:
Time:
Importance:
the Forbidden City
Beijing
the largest museum of cultural relics in China
The imperial palace/
1406 (the Ming Dynasty)
Name:
Place:
Time:
Importance:
The Great Pyramid of Khufu(胡夫 ）
Egypt
around the year 2560 BC
the only surviving of the Seven Ancient Wonders
Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui - Xidi and Hongcun
Mount Huangshan
The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
and the Terracotta Warriors
the Leshan Giant Buddha
The Classical Gardens of Suzhou
What is a cultural relic ?
A cultural relic is something that has survived for a long time, often a part of something old that has remained when the rest of it has been destroyed; it tells people about the past.
Have you ever seen anything made
of amber?
Have you ever heard of amber?
Pre-reading
What is this?
Raw amber with inclusions
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 。
Can you imagine
what a room
made of amber
looks like?
Raw
amber
Do you know what picture this is?
A picture of the Amber Room
in St Petersburg in Russia
Reading
In Search of the Amber Room
Main idea
Brief introduction to the Amber Room
The transform of the Amber Room as a gift and its change
The missing of the Amber Room
A new Amber Room
Para 1
Para 2 & 3
Para 4
Para 5
Match each part of the passage with its headline
Fast reading
Read Para 1 to find detailed information about
the Amber Room
Colour
Birthplace
Design
Material
Time to
complete it
yellow-brown
Prussia
of the fancy style popular
in those days
seven thousand tons of amber;
gold and jewels
It took a team of the
country’s best artists ten
years to make it.
Detail reading
Task 1:
Read Para.2 and answer questions
1. When and why did Frederick William I give the Amber Room to Peter the Great?
2. What did Peter the Great give in return?
3. What did the Amber Room serve as?
In 1716, Frederick William I gave the Amber Room to Peter the Great as a gift of friendship from the Prussian to the Russian people.
Peter the Great gave a troop of best soldiers in return.
It served as a small reception hall for important visitors.
Read Para.3 and answer the question
What did Catherine II do to the Amber
Room?
Catherine II had the Amber Room moved to the palace outside St.Petersburg and added more details to its design.
In 1941, the two countries Germany and France were at war.
2. The Russians didn’t remove the Amber Room but only the furniture and small art objects.
3. The Nazis secretly stole the Amber Room.
4. 10,000 pieces of the room were put inside 7
wooden boxes and then put on a train for Konisgberg.
After that, what really happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery.

T
T
T
F
F
Russia
100,000
Read Para.4 and tell “T” or “F”
27
1
It was built by ________________
2
Following __________, it has been made to look much like ________
3
It was used to celebrate ______________ of the city St Petersburg.
the Russians and Germans
old photos
the old one
the 300th birthday
Read Para.5 and find out the information about new Amber Room
Task 2:
1. The Amber Room was made for _____ . A. Catherine II B. the palace of Frederick I C. Peter the Great D. the Prussian people 2. The Amber Room was one of the great wonders of the world , but it is now missing because ____ . A. Most precious pieces of the Amber Room could be taken apart , packed and moved away . B. The Amber Room was very small so that German soldiers could move it away easily . C. it was destroyed by Peter the Great . D. there was a mystery in it .
B
A
3. The new Amber Room looks much like the old one because ___ . A. the Russians and Germans are good at building the Amber Room . B. it was rebuilt by the Russians and Germans with the help of its old painting sand photos. C. they found the site of the Amber Room. D. Catherine’s artists gave detail advice. 4. Although amber feels as hard as stone , it easily melts when heated , “melts” here means ____ .
A. becomes liquid B. becomes freezing C. becomes solid D. is broken
B
A
Homework
1.Go over the “Reading” and find out the useful expressions and difficult sentences in it.
2. Review some important words and phrases