人教高中英语必修二Unit 1 cultural relics Reading 课件(共20张PPT)

Unit 1 Cultural Relics
The Pyramid in Egypt
The Great Wall in China
1.What do they have in common?
They are all symbols of their countries and their cultures.
They are all great man-made projects in the world.
They were built long time ago for some important purpose and they are now of great value to us today.
The Statue of Liberty
Do you know what a cultural relic is?
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.
color yellow- brown
feel like
Amber is the fossil(化石)form of
resin(树脂) from trees and takes millions of years to form.
feel as hard as stone
What is amber?
amber
beautiful
rare / precious
Can you imagine a house made of amber ?
“琥珀屋”面积约55平方米，全都由当时比黄金还贵12倍的琥珀制成，一共花了5.7吨琥珀原料。
Welcome to the Amber Room
Main idea
Brief introduction to the Amber Room
The missing of the Amber Room
Para 1
Para 2 & 3
Para 4
Para 5
Match each part of the passage with its headline
Skimming
Brief introduction to the Amber Room
A new Amber Room
Scan 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
several tons of amber;
gold and jewels
It took a team of the
country’s best artists ten
years to make it.
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 his best soldiers in return.
It served as a small reception hall for important visitors.
Read Para.3 and answer the question
Catherine II had the Amber Room moved to the palace outside St. Petersburg and added more details to its design.
What did Catherine II do to the Amber
Room?
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”
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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
____Frederick William Ⅰ gave the Amber Room to Peter
the Great as a gift.
____The Czar gave Fredrick WilliamⅠa troop of best soldiers.
____The Amber Room was made for Fredrick Ⅰ.
____The Russians removed art objects from the Amber Room.
____More details were added to the room’s design.
____The Amber Room was taken apart(拆除)and moved away.
____A New Amber Room was built.
____Catherine Ⅱmoved the Amber Room to the palace outside St Petersburg.
Read the following sentences and discuss to number them.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Group work
Suppose you are the guide of the Amber Room!
You are going to introduce the Amber Room to us.
What are you going to introduce?
Welcome
Activity
Reference words and expressions：
owner ,present ,move to winter palace, add to more details, remove, to pieces put on
trains ,remain a mystery ,300thbirthday
Clues：
built
lost
rebuilt
added to more
details
gave to sb. as a gift
stolen
Homework
1. Write what you discussed into a
composition(about100words).
2. Find out all the attributive clauses and
try to analyse their structures.