Unit 1 Unit 1 Cultural Cultural relicsrelics

What is your favorite city? Why?

What makes a city great?

a long history

many great people

important events taking place there

cultural relics

What is a cultural What is a cultural relic ?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. It is usually rare.

According to the According to the definition, what definition, what characteristics does a characteristics does a cultural relic have ? cultural relic have ?

mysteriousmysterious

preciousprecious

oldold

valuablevaluable rarerare

cultural reliccultural relic

Do you have any in your family? …… …… ……

There are mainly three kinds of cultu

ral heritage: historic objects （文物） ,

historic sites （遗址） and

ancient buildings （建筑群） .

Ming Dynasty vases

Taj Mahal

ivory dragon boat

Mogao Caves

Can you name some of the cultural relics in China or the world?

the Forbidden the Forbidden CityCity

The Great Wall in China

The terracotta warriors

The Pyramids in Egypt

Stonehenge( 巨石群） in Britain

Salisbury （索尔兹伯里） plain

The Big Ben (In England)

Let’s see some amber production.

•color yellow- brown•feel•Amber is the Amber is the fossil( 化石 )form of form of resin( 树脂 ) from trees. from trees.• It takes It takes millions of years to form. to form.

feel as hard as stone

What is amber?

amber

beautiful rare/precious

Can you imagine a house made

of amber ?

In Search Of The Amber Room

Reading

What’s the amber room like?Several tons of amber were used to make it

The selected amber had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honeyThe design of the room was in the fancy style

Decorated with gold and jewels

It took the best artists about ten years to make

According to the text ,do the true or false exercises.

1.Frederick William I was the King of Russia.

2. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days.

3.The Amber Room was made up of several kilos of amber.4. Peter the Great made Amber Room his Summer Palace.5.Catherine II added more details to the Amber Room and made it her Summer Palace.

F Prussia

T

F tons

F winter

T

The following five questions summarize the main ideas of the Five paragraphs in the passage. Put the paragraph numbers in the boxes. .

1 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?

3

4

5

1

2

Frederick WilliamⅠ

Peter the Great Peter the Great Czar Czar

CatherineCatherineⅡⅡ

FrederickⅠ

Join the correct parts of the sentences together.

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.

Peter the Great Peter the Great Czar Czar

CatherineCatherineⅡⅡ

FrederickⅠ 1.What did these people do to the Amber Room?

2.What happened in these years?

In 1716 ,in 1770,

in september1941,in 2003

Frederick WilliamⅠ

FrederickⅠ Frederick WilliamⅠ

pass down

Frederic

k Willi

am I

Peter the Great

In return

as a gift

pass down

CatherineCatherineⅡⅡPeter the Great

stolen

NaziCatherine II

FrederickⅠ

Frederick WilliamⅠ

Frederick WilliamⅠ

Peter the Peter the Great ,Great ,

the the CzarCzar

CatherineCatherineⅡⅡ

Nazi

17161770

1941

recently

rebuilt

built

lost

added to more details

gave to sb. as a gift

stolen

Fill in the blanks: The Amber Room was a _______ that Frederick William , the King of Prussia gave to Peter the Great. In Ⅰ_____, 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 told her artists to add more Ⅱ_____ 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 _______.

gift

return troopartists

decoratedreception

detailswonders

warmystery

In groups discuss: Is it worth rebuilding lost cultural relics such as the Amber Room or Yuan Ming Yuan in Beijing? Give your reasons.

1. Try to tell one story of one of the Chinese cultural relics

2. Read the text as fluently as you can.