精品文档The First PeriodWarming up & Reading【单元导航】The Amber Roomth the very beginning of the 18The history of the Amber Room dates back to（追溯到）century, when Andreas Schluter, the chief architect of the Prussianroyal court, had the idea of using amber, a material never before used, to complete one of the rooms of （室内装修）for interior decorationunder reconstruction during the in the Great Royal Palace Berlin1713 until and continued works started in 1701 . Frederick ⅠThewith the help of the best German, Swedish, and Dutch amber masters,Frederick –new Prussian King and when the old king died, the).掌权Ⅰ—came into power(WillelmWarming Up and ReadingPeriod 1Ask and answer Step 1This period we are going to read about IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM.. Before ourreading, please answer the following questions:1) Do you know what a cultural relic is? Can you give some examples?_____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ ______________2) Please use a few words to describe what you think cultural relics are.rare,_____________________________________________________________________ __To whom do cultural relics belong?_____________________________________________________________________ _______Please complete the description about cultural relics.Step 2 is something that survived for ________, often a part of something old that cultural relic Ahas remained when the rest of it has been destroyed or ________; it tells people about the _____.Discuss: If you find a cultural relic, what will you do with it?Task 3_____________________________________________________________________ _______Step 3 SkimmingAbout amberTask 1Have you ever seen a piece of amber? If so, what does it look like?_________________________________________________________ _____精品文档．精品文档Task 2 According to the title In Search of The Amber Room, please answer the followingquestions:(1) Why is it called the Amber Room?_____________________________________________________________________ _____(2) What happened to the Amber Room?_____________________________________________________________________ ______Task 3 Skim the text and find out: The Amber Room was given by ____________ to ____________, a great gift from the King of Prussia to the Russian peopleStep 4 Careful readingTask 1 Read the text carefully and join the correct parts of the sentences together.A. Information about the Amber Room:1) FrederickⅠA. stole the Amber Room.B. sent a troop of his best soldiers to the King of Ⅰ2) Frederick William Prussia.C. had the Amber Room made. 3) Peter the GreatD. had it moved outside St Petersburg. Ⅱ4) CatherineE. gave it to the Czar as a gift.5) The Nazi armyF. built a new Amber Room after studying pictures 6) The Russians and Germansof the old one.B. The main idea of each paragraph::1st paragraph 1. How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of the world?nd paragraph 2. How was a new Amber Room built? 2rd3. How did the Amber Room get lost? paragraph 3th4. How was the Amber Room made?4 paragraphth5. Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of 5 paragraphRussia as a gift?Task 2 Detailed reading1) Go through each paragraph and answer the following questions:Para.1 Why was the Amber Room given such a name?精品文档．精品文档_____________________________________________________________________ ________Para.2 What did Czar give the King of Prussia in return?_____________________________________________________________________ ________Para.3 What did Catherine II do with the Amber Room?_____________________________________________________________________ ________Para.4 When and how was the Amber Room supposed to have been lost?_____________________________________________________________________ ________Para.5 How is the new room made?_____________________________________________________________________ ________2) Can you raise more questions about the Amber Room?_________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________Task 3 Multiple choicePlease read the text and choose the best answer for each blank1) The King of Prussia who gave the Amber Room as a gift to Russia was _____A Frederick IB Frederick William IC Peter the GreatD Catherine II2) The King of Prussia gave the Amber Room to Russia because _____A he wanted to marry Catherine IIB he was kindC he needed better soldiersD he wanted to make friends3) The Amber Room was stolen by _____A Russian soldiersB German soldiersC people in KonigsbergD people in St Petersburg4) In 1941, the city of Konigsberg was in _____A GermanyB RussiaC SwedenD France5) The Russians didn't hide the Amber Room because _____A they were at warB they couldn't find a placeC the German soldiers arrived too soonD no train could take it awayStep 5 RetellingAmber Room, the best and biggest work of amber art ever made, was first built for _____精品文档．精品文档_____ Frederick I. In 1716, Frederick William I gave it to Peter the Great_____ _____ _____s 55 best soldiers. Thus the Amber Room ' of friendship and _____ _____ he got the Czar_____s _____ _______in St. Petersburg and served as a small _______ became part of the Czar'______for important visitors. Later, Catherine II told her artists to _____ more details _____ itsdesign. Unfortunately, in September, 1941, When Russia and Nazi Germany were_____ ____,the Amber Room was secretly _____ by the Nazis. 100,000 pieces of the room were put insidetwenty-seven wooden boxes. _____ _____ _____ _____ that the boxes were then put on a trainfor Konigsberg. After that, the Amber Room _____ _____. While the search for the old roomcontinues, the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room which was ready for thepeople of St. Petersburg to celebrate the 300th birthday of their city in the spring of 2003.Step 6 HomeworkTick out sentences that you think are difficult for you.【学习反思】我的阅读呃，我还要努力！完成情况Keys:Step 1 Ask and answer2）building, object or item; valuable, old, sth. used by our ancestors or a place where afamous person used to live, expensive, etc3）In a larger sense, it can be said that all the cultural relics belong to all peoples andwhole societies, not a certain individual.Step 2 Please complete the description about cultural relics.1. a long time2. lost3. past or historyStep 3 SkimmingTask 2 According to the title In Search of The Amber Room, please answer the followingquestions:(1) Because the room is made of amber. (2) It was missing.Task 3 Frederick William I; Peter the Great.Step 4 Careful reading精品文档．精品文档Task 1 A) CEBDAF B) 45132Task 2Para.1 It was given the name because almost seven thousand tons of ambers were usedto make itPara.2 He sent him a troop of his best soldiers.Para.3 Catherine II had the Amber Room moved to the palace outside St Petersburgwhere she spent her summers. She also had more details added to the Amber Room.Para.4 In 1941, those two countries were at war. German army stole it. Para.5 By studying old photos of the former Amber Room.Task 3 BDBACStep 5 the palace of 2) as a gift 3) in return 4) summer palace 5) reception hall6) add…to 7) at war 8) stolen 9) There is no doubt 10) was missingPeriod 2 Language pointsStep 1 Complete the following sentences.1) The Russians and Germans have built ______ new Amber Room at _____ summer palace.2) _____ September, the Nazi German army was near St Petersburg.3) This was a time when the two countries wre ____ war.4) After that, ________ happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery.5) Later, Catherine Ⅱhad the Amber Room moved _____ the palace where ___spent her summers.6) The king could never have imagined _____ his gift ____ the Russian people would have such ____ strangehistory. _____ gift was _____ Amber Room.7) ________ amber feels as stone, it easily melts when heated.8) _____ fact, the room was not made to be a gift.9) The Amber Room was made for the palace of Frederick Ⅰ, _____ he didn't want to keep it.10) 100,000 pieces of the room were put inside the boxes _____ put on a train for Germany.Step 2 Useful expressionsTask 1 Please go through the text and look for the following expressions. Then put them into Chinese orEnglish.1. fancy style2. belong to4. at war3. in return6. remove the furniture5. less than two days7. 被认为是世界的一大奇迹之一________________________________________________8. 被用作接待重要来宾的小型会客室_____________________________________________精品文档．精品文档Task 2 Let's learn some useful expressions!1) In search of the Amber roomin search of 寻找，搜查例：The policemen were in search of the missing boy in the woods.警察在树林里寻找那个失踪的小男孩。