Module 2 Unit 1 Module 2 Unit 1 Cultural Relics

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福清三中福清三中

THE AMBER ROOM

Guess

• has a beautiful yellow-brown colour.

• feels as hard as stone.

• easily melt when heated.

• Once it is heated, it can be made into any shape.

Predict what the text is about according to the title and the picture.

Pre-reading

In search ofIn search of the Amber Roomthe Amber Room

A.the war between the Russians and Germany B.the history of the Amber RoomC.how to build the Amber RoomD.why the king built the Amber Room

Task 1: Fast readingThe passage is mainly about____

Task2: Read the passage again and match the proper main idea for each paragraph.

Para 1

Para 2

Para 3

Para 4

Para 5

the introduction of theAmber Room

the gift to the Czar

the missing of the Amber

the rebuilding of the Amber Room

the relocation of the Amber Room in Catherine timeⅡ

Skimming

Skimming

Read the passage quickly and findout characters , years ,and places inthe passage.

characters

years

places

1

2

3

Task 3:

Scanning

2.Frederick WilliamⅠ

3.Peter the 3.Peter the GreatGreat

4.Catherine4.CatherineⅡⅡ

1.FrederickⅠ

1716

1770

1941

2003

yea

rs

Prussia

Russia

Germany

?

pla

ces

Careful reading

2.Frederick WilliamⅠ

3.Peter the 3.Peter the GreatGreat

4.Catheri4.CatherineneⅡⅡ

1.FredrickⅠ

1.What did these four people

• do to the AmberRoom? 2.What happened in

these four years (1716;

1770; 1941; 2003)?

Task4: Read text carefully again andanswer the following quetions

FrederickⅠ

Frederick WilliamⅠ

Frederick WilliamⅠ

Peter the Peter the Great Great CzarCzar

CatherinCatherineeⅡⅡ

NaziThe clue of the storyThe clue of the story

pass down

given as a gift pass

down st

olen

1716

1770

1941

2003

Frederick William gave the ⅠAmber Room to Peter the Great_________.

Catherine ______ more Ⅱdetails to the Amber Room.

The Nazi German army _____ the Amber Room.

The __________of the Amber Room was completed.

year

s

as a gift

stole

rebuilding

added

1. The king of Prussia gave the Amber

Room to Russia because___.

A. he wanted to marry

Catherine II. B. he was kind.

C. he needed better

soldiers D. he wanted to

make friends

Task5: Comprehending

2. In 1941, the city of Konigsberg was in ___. A. Germany B. Russia C. Sweden D. France

3. The Russians didn’t hide the Amber

Room because ______.

A. they were at war

B. the couldn’t find a place

C. the German soldiers arrived too soon

D. no train could take it away

4.Which is not the factor that made the Amber

Room become one of the wonders of the world?

A.its design

B.the material

C.the time spent in building it

D. the owners of it

Consolidation

The Amber Room was made of a____, gold

and j____ .The d_____ of the room was in the f____ s____ popular in those days. It took the Prussian best a_____10 years to make . It first ________ ____ Frederick I.

mber

ewels

rtists

esignancy

belonged to

tyle

Cloze Summary of the text

• In 1716, Frederick Willliam I gave the Amber Room to Peter the Great as a gift.____ _____, the Czar gave the king of Prussia a t_____ of his best soldiers. For a long time, it served as a r______hall. Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room moved to the palace outside St Petersburg.She asked her artists to add more d____to its design. So it was c________as one of the w_______of the world.

In returnroop

eception

etails onsidered

onders

In September,1941 the two countries, Germany and Russia, were _____. The Russians were only able to r______the f_______ and small art objects from the Amber Room. Some of the Nazis stole the Amber Room itself and _________ it.

at war

emove urniture

took apart

In _______ two days, 10.000 pieces of the room were put inside 27 w______ boxes. Then the boxes were put on a train for KÖnigsberg, a G_____ city on the Baltic Sea. After that, what happened to the Amber Room r______ a m_______. Now the Amber Room is _______________ .

less thanooden

erman

ysteryemainsmissing/gone/lost

Suppose you are the guide of the

Amber Room!

You are going to introduce the

Amber Room to visitors.

What are you going to introduce?

Welcome

Do you think it’s meaningful to rebuild the Amber Room?

Debate

for against

I am for …because …

I am against…because …

I agree that …/I agree with your opinion

I don’t agree with you,

In my opinion, I think …

My opinion is that …

I think it is better to …

I believe …

Homework

1.Retell the text.

2. Prepare for the debate.

3.Learning about language.