In Search of the Amber Room

Unit1 Cultural relics

Reading

Enjoy some beautiful pictures and answer:

What are they made of?

Step1 Warming up

What are they made of?

They are made of amber.

What is amber?琥珀是史前松树脂的化石。琥珀是由千万年前植物所分泌出来的树脂 , 经过地壳变动而深埋地下 , 逐渐演化而成的一种天然化石。形成于 4000万年至 6000万年前。没有两块琥珀是完全相同的。含有完整昆虫或植物的琥珀为珍贵 。

Amber is very rare and valuable.

If a house is made of amber,

it will be…

The Amber Room

In Search of the Amber Room

Reading

Tips: While you are reading, try to find out information about:Who

What Where WhenWhy How

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( 提及 ) in the text. Q1 How many people are mentioned ?Q2 Who are they?

It tells us the strange history

of the_____ _____, a cultural

relic of two countries:_______

and________.

Amber Room

GermanyRussi

a

Task1 Try to find out the main idea:

Task2. Some people (who are related with the Amber Room) are mentioned( 提及 ) 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?

Step3 Careful reading (16’)

Task1 Read Para1 and fill in: (4’)Information about the Amber

RoomColor ______________

Design

How long was

it built?

Yellow-brownIn the _____ ______

popular in those daysIt took of the country’s best artists about ____ years to make it.

fancy style

10

Task2 Read Para2 and try to find out: Who? What? When? (4’)

Who: Frederick I ， Frederick William I ， Peter the Great

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

Task3 Read Para3 and judge if they are true or false.(3’)1)Peter the Great had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg. ( )

2) Catherine II’s artists finished decorating the Amber Room in 1770. ( )

3) There were only mirrors in the Amber Room. ( )

F

T

F

Task4 Listen to Para4 and try to catch the missing words.(3’)1)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 itself

Less than

wooden

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 built……

No, it is not.

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 country’s 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.

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 country’s 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

Step5 能力提升Retell the story according to the pictures.

Retell the storyRetell the story

Peter the Peter the Great Great

（（ CzarCzar））

CatherinCatherine e

ⅡⅡ

Frederick

Ⅰ

Frederick ⅠFrederick Ⅰ

Nazi

Frederick William ⅠFrederick William Ⅰ

Nazi

pass down

give… as a gift pass

down

stol

e

Step6 Homework 1. 完成周报第 11 期 彩版 第 4 版 Part1, Part22. 结合《全优》，预习本课的 知识点。