1、Unit 1 Cultural relicsWarming up I(6m)Look at the three groups of pictures and discuss these questions.1.Do you know these places?2.If you know,what do you know about the places?3.Which one would you like to visit?Why?Group 1 The Pyramidsin EgyptGroup 2 The Great Wall/ChinaGroup 3 Stonehenge/Britain
2、 Salisbury plainWhich one would you like to choose?Why?Reasons for their importanceSymbols of their countries A concrete annotation of their culturesHave a memorable significanceBring in money from tourismShow more cultural relics.As is known to all,China is a country with a history of more than 5,0
3、00 years.In the long history,people in different periods have left us quite a number of cultural sites,many of which are world famous.Now look at the pictures and guess what heritage they are.Warming up II(4m)Forbidden CityPotala Palace,LhasaMount Huangshan (1990)Longmen Grottoes(2000)Jiuzhaigou Val
4、ley Scenic and Historic Interest Area(1992)Classical Gardens of Suzhou(1997)Pre-reading(2m)Students answer the following questions:What is your favorite city?Why?What makes a city great?a long historycultural relicsmany great peopleimportant events taking place thereJoin the correct parts of the sen
5、tences together.1.Frederick 2.Frederick William 3.Peter the Great4.Catherine 5.The Nazi army6.The Russian and GermansA 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 buil
6、t a new Amber Room after studying pictures of the old one.The following five questions summarize the main idea of the Five paragraphs in the passage.Put the paragraph numbers inthe boxes.Then Answer the questions.How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of the world?How did the Amber Room ge
7、t 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?34512Is it worth rebuilding lost cultural relics such as the Amber Room or Yuan Ming Yuan in Beijing?Give your reasons.Read the text again and answer the
8、following questions(discuss in pairs):Reading-III Answering questions (5m)1.What was given to the Russian people as a great gift by Frederick William I,the king of Prussia?2.Why it is called the Amber room and how many tons of amber were used to make the Amber Room?3.What did Catherine the Great do
9、with the Amber Room?4.What happened to the Amber Room?1.What was given to the Russian people as a great gift by Frederick William I,the king of Prussia?The great Amber Room was given to the Russian people as a great gift by the king.2.Why it is called the Amber room and how many tons of amber were u
10、sed to make the Amber Room?Because it was made of almost seven thousand tons of amber,which has a beautiful yellow brown color.3.What did Catherine the Great do with the Amber Room?She had the Amber Room moved to the palace outside St Petersburg and transformed it.4.What happened to the Amber Room?I
11、t was taken apart and missing in the second world war,and the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber room at the summer palace.Reading IV (3m)Find out all the people related to the Amber Room from the text.Frederick IFrederick William IPeter the GreatCatherine IIThe Nazi German1.Try to tell the story about the Amber Room.2.Prepare for the next class.
