Cultural relics
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Do you know what a cultural relic is?
A cultural relic is something that can represent cultures, which has survived for a long time to tell the history, and it is very rare and valuable. Cultural relics can be craftworks, buildings, books, paintings music, and so on.
Name: The Great Pyramid of Khufu Place: Egypt Time: around the year 2560 BC Importance: the only surviving of the Seven Ancient Wonders
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1.Do you know what they are? Cultural relics文化遗产 2.Do cultural relics only refer to buildings?
3.Can you give some other examples?
The Mona Lisa 蒙娜丽莎的微笑
1.Why was it called the Amber Room? Because almost seven thousand tons of amber were used to make it. 2.What was it made for? It was made for the palace of Frederick I. 3.Why to search for it? Because it was one of the great wonders of the world and now it is missing.
The Statue of Liberty 自由女神像
Stonehenge巨石阵
4.What should you do to protect cultural relics?
Ⅰ.Warming up
Do you know what a cultural relic is ? Does a cultural relics always have to be rare and valuable? Look at the pictures and discuss whether they are cultural relics or not.
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Taj Mahal
泰姬陵
tomb India 1631~1653 romance

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ivory dragon boat
象牙镂雕龙舟
The Dragon Boat Festival
ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ
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Can you imagine a house made of amber ?
In Search of
the Amber Room
In Search of the Amber Room
When you see this title, what do you want to know? What is the Amber Room? Why was it called the Amber Room? What was it made for? What happened to it? Why to search for it?

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Do you know these?
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明朝花瓶
Ming Dynasty vase
China china

This vase is a kind of china which was made in China.
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Mogao Caves
（ 千莫 佛高 洞窟 ）
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Ⅱ.Pre-reading:
Have you ever seen a piece of amber?
watch the video !
What do you know about it?
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What is amber?
•color •feel like
yellow- brown feel as hard as stone
•Amber is the fossil(化石)form of resin(树脂) from trees. • It takes millions of years to form.
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• Name: The Great Wall • Place: Beijing • Time: Since 475BC • Importance: the symbol of China and its culture.
Name: the Forbidden City Place: Beijing Time: 1406 (the Ming Dynasty) The imperial palace/ Importance: the largest museum of cultural relics in China

Read the passage quickly and find out characters , years ,and places in the passage. ( clues 线索）(3 m.)
characters
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places
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years
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Now let’s answer three of them