Reading for In Search of the Amber Room课件.ppt

1、friends,Unit 1 Cultural relics,人教课标 高一 必修 2,Reading,Do you know what a cultural relic is?,Can you give some examples of the cultural relics both at home and abroad?,Yuanmingyuan,Lets enjoy some pictures!,The Great Wall,Wuluozhongli Mountain,Potala Palace,Temple of Heaven,The Pyramids in Egypt,Forbid

2、den City,The Eiffel Tower in Paris,Mogao Caves,Ming Dynasty vase,ivory dragon boat,The Taj Mahal in India,It is a part of something old that has remained when the rest of it has been destroyed. It tells people about the past. It has survived for a long time.,What is a cultural relic ?,The Amber Room

3、,It is now missing,Fast reading,Frederick I Frederick William I Peter the Great Catherine II The Nazi army The Russians and Germans,Stole the Amber Room. Sent a troop of his best soldiers to the King of Prussia. Had the Amber Room made. Had it moved outside St Petersburg. Gave it to the Czar as a gi

4、ft. Built a new Amber Room after studying pictures of the old one.,Join the correct parts of the sentences together.,1. What was the Amber Room made of ? 2. The amber feels as hard as stone, how can it be made into a room?,Once it is heated, the amber can be made into any shape.,7,000 tons of amber

5、were used to make it. It was also made with gold and jewels.,Para 1,Careful reading,Detailed information about the Amber Room,Colour,Birthplace,Design,Material,Time to complete it,yellow-brown,Prussia,of the fancy style popular in those days,seven thousand tons of amber;,gold and jewels,It took a te

6、am of the countrys best artists ten years to make it.,The best and biggest work of amber art ever made. （有史以来所制作的最大最好的琥珀艺术作品）,1.What did Peter the Great give in return?,The Czar gave the king of Prussia 55 of his best soldiers.,2.What was the Amber Room used for when it belonged to Peter the Great?,

7、It served as a small reception hall for important visitors.,Para 2,1.What did Catherine II use the Amber Room for?,She spent her summers in the Amber Room.,2.What could you see in the Amber room after it was completed?,Almost six hundred candles lit the room, and its mirrors and pictures shone like

8、gold.,Para 3,( ) Germany and Russia are at war in 1941 ( ) All things in the Amber Room were stolen. The Russians were only able to remove the furniture and small art objects from the Amber Room. ( ) The Nazis stole the Amber Room within two days.,F,T,Para 4,True or False,T,( ) Which of the followin

9、g is wrong about the Amber Room? A.People continue to search for the old room. B.People find the room finally. C.The Russians and Germans have built a new one. D.The new one is much like the old one.,B,Para 5,Amber Room, the best and biggest work of amber art ever made, was first built for the _ of

10、Frederick I. In 1916, Frederick William I gave it to Peter the Great as a _ of friendship and _ return he got the Czars a troop of best soldiers. Thus the Amber Room became part of the Czars _ palace in St.Petersburg and served as a small _ hall for important visitors. Later,Catherine II told her ar

11、tists to _ more details _ its design. Unfortunately, in September,1941,When Russia and Nazi Germany were _ war, the Amber Room was secretly stolen by the Nazis. 100,000 pieces of the room were put inside twenty-seven wooden boxes. _ _ no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg.

12、After that,the Amber Room was _. While the search for the old room continues, the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room which was ready for the people of St. Petersburg to celebrate the 300th birthday of their city in the spring of 2003.,palace,gift,in,winter,reception,add,to,at,There is,missing,Summary,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? Basic information: made of . His