原创课件： 寻找琥珀屋(必修二第一单元：读写课型).doc

原创课件： 寻找琥珀屋（必修二第一单元：读写课型） 教材分析：文本属于叙事性文体，是本单元话题“文化遗产”的主课文，聚焦 Amber Room 的 amazing history，折射琥珀屋曾作为“世界遗迹”的经济、历史和文化价值。1.文本特征文本的标题（In Search of the Amber Room）内含话题（topic）和焦点（focus），可以帮助读者聚焦文本的主题内容和意义；Pre-reading部分的插图（琥珀工艺品或饰品）展示琥珀的颜色、质地、功能等；文本内的插图（琥珀屋）展示琥珀屋的“富丽堂皇”，可以帮助读者直观地感受琥珀的经济价值。2.文本特点1）从文本的结构和内容看，文章共五段，第一段是 the appearance of the Amber Room，以描述为主，介绍了琥珀屋的 material, color, design and decorations；第二段至第五段是 the amazing history of the Amber Room，以记叙为主，展示了 various functions, specific and general history and comment。2）从文本的语言看，文章语言难度适中，通过采用 showing words，比如several tons of; selected; yellow-brown colour like honey, take the countrys best artists about ten years to make等增强描写的“画面感”；使用 telling words，比如 the greatest gift, have an amazing history, fancy style 以及琥珀屋在德国和俄国间“流动”时的动词等体现叙事的“说服力”。文本使用的复合句以定语从句为主，涉及宾语从句和让步状语从句。主要时态是一般过去时。3.教学内容1）通过介绍琥珀的基本信息介绍，帮助学生认识琥珀屋的经济价值2）通过读前的问题 What words would you use to describe the Amber Room?（基于主线的问题），感知学生对琥珀屋的直观感受3）通过解读标题和首句（the greatest gift, an amazing history），然后阅读验证，鼓励学生预测文本大意，构建文本框架4）通过整体的细节阅读，帮助学生了解琥珀屋 economically priceless选材，设计，人工成本等隐含价值5）通过整体的细节阅读，引导学生梳理琥珀屋在德国和俄国间“流通”的“传奇历史”6）通过探究两国间因为琥珀屋的时间关系发展图，鼓励学生思考琥珀屋见证历史的内涵7）通过思维导图深度梳理，提炼，归纳信息，引导学生得出琥珀屋是皇室奢靡生活的见证，二战时德国纳粹的见证，更是两国间友人敌人友人关系转变的见证8）通过基于referential question和probing question的report，激活学生的语言思维，巩固语言学习9）通过读后的同一问题 What words would you use to describe the Amber room?（基于主线的问题），引导学生反思琥珀屋的除经济价值外的历史价值，文化价值10）通过合理“质疑标题”，鼓励学生基于文本事实判断的评判性思维11）通过基于话题、结构和语言的仿写，课后检测学生内容、结构、思维和语言学习的效果本期编排：1设计思路 2原文文本 3课件展示文本：必修2Unit 1 Cultural relics-IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOMFrederick William ，the King of Prussia , could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such an amazing history . This gift was the Amber Room, which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. The amber which was selected had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days. It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, which took the countrys best artists about ten years to make.In fact, the room was not made to be a gift. It was designed for the palace of Frederick . However, the next King of Prussia , Frederick William , to whom the amber room belonged, decided not to keep it. In 1716 he gave it to Peter the Great. In return, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers. So the Amber Room because part of the Czars winter palace in St Petersburg. About four metres long, the room served as a small reception hall for important visitors.Later, Catherine had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details to it. In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted. Almost six hundred candles lit the room, and its mirrors and pictures shone like gold. Sadly, although the Amber Room was considered one of the wonders of the world, it is now missing.In September 1941, the Nazi army was near St Petersburg. This was a time when the two countries were at war. Before the Nazis could get to the summer palace, the Russians were able to remove some furniture and small art objects from the Amber Room. However, some of the Nazis secretly stole the room itself. In less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven wooden boxes. There is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea. After that, what happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery.Recently, the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room at the summer palace. By studying old pho