In Search of the Amber RoomUnit1 Cultural relicsReading
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Enjoy some beautiful pictures and answer: What are they made of?Step1 Warming up
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What are they made of?They are made of amber.
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What is amber?, , 40006000
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Amber is very rare and valuable.If a house is made of amber, it will be
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The Amber Room
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In Search of the Amber RoomReading
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Tips: While you are reading, try to find out information about:Who What Where WhenWhy How
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Task1.Try to find out the main idea: It tells us the strange history of the____ _____, a cultural relic of two countries: ______ and______.Step2 Fast reading (5) Task2. Some people (who are related with the Amber Room) are mentioned() in the text. Q1 How many people are mentioned ?Q2 Who are they?
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It tells us the strange history of the_____ _____, a culturalrelic of two countries:_______ and________.Amber RoomGermanyRussiaTask1 Try to find out the main idea:
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Task2. Some people (who are related with the Amber Room) are mentioned() in the text. Q1 How many people are mentioned ?
5 people are mentioned.They are Frederick I Frederick William I Peter the Great Catherine II and the Nazi army.Q2 Who are they?
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Step3 Careful reading (16)Task1 Read Para1 and fill in: (4)Information about the Amber RoomYellow-brownIn the _____ ______popular in those daysIt took of the countrys best artists about ____ years to make it.fancy style 10
Color______________DesignHow long wasit built?
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Task2 Read Para2 and try to find out: Who? What? When? (4)Who:Frederick I Frederick William I Peter the Great
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Task2 Read Para2 and try to find out: Who? What? When? (4)What:1) The Amber Room first was ______ for Frederick I.2) In_____, Frederick William I ______ the Amber Room to Peter the Great.3) In return, Peter the Great ______ Frederick William I a troop of his best soldiers.designed 1716 gave sent
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Task3 Read Para3 and judge if they are true or false.(3)Peter the Great had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg. ( )
2) Catherine IIs artists finished decorating the Amber Room in 1770. ( )
3) There were only mirrors in the Amber Room. ( )F T F
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Task4 Listen to Para4 and try to catch the missing words.(3)This was a time _____the two countries were _____ _____.
2)However, some of the Nazis secretly _______ the room ______.
3) In ____ ____ two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven _______boxes. when at war stole itselfLess thanwooden
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Task5 Read Para5 together and answer: (2)Q1 Who built a new amber room?
Q2 Is the new amber room the one that was from Prussia ?The Russians and the Germans builtNo, it is not.
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Step4 Sum upThe Amber Room was 1_____gift of friendship from Prussia 2_____Russia. It was made 3____ several tons of amber. The amber which was4_____(select) to build the Amber Room was very5 _____(beauty). It took a team of the countrys best 6_____ (art) ten years to make the Amber Room. 7______(luck), it was stolen 8______ the Nazis during the World War II and lost forever. No one has ever known 9____ really happened to it. Now, a new Amber that looks much like the old 10_____ has been built by the Russians and the Germans.
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The Amber Room was 1_____gift of friendship from Prussia 2____Russia. It was made 3____ several tons of amber. The amber which was4__________(select)to build the Amber Room was very5 ________(beauty). It took a team of the countrys best 6_______ (art) ten years to make the Amber Room. 7__________(luck), it was stolen 8______ the Nazis during the World War II and lost forever. No one has ever known 9_____ really happened to it. Now, a new Amber that looks much like the old 10______ has been built by the Russians and the Germans.a to of selected beautiful artists Unluckily by what one
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Step5 Retell the story according to the pictures.
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Retell the storyPeter the Great CzarCatherine Frederick Frederick NaziFrederick William Nazipass downgive as a giftpass downstole
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Step6 Homework 1.11 4Part1, Part22.
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