高中英语人教版必修二Unit 1 Cultura relics Reading 课件（70张）

课件70张PPT。Reading Do you know what a cultural relic is? Cultural relics are traces or features surviving from a past age and serving to remind people of them.Warming upMing Dynasty vaseLook at the pictures below and discuss what they are and whether they are cultural relics or not.The Taj Mahal (In India)ivory dragon boatMogao Caves (In China)The Pyramids in EgyptThe Sydney Opera (in Australia)Cooperative learning 1. Do you know these famous places? If you know, what do you know about them? 2. Which one do you like to visit? Why? 3. What makes a city great and famous? (a long history; cultural relics; many great people; important events taking place there)1. Have you ever seen a piece of amber? What do you know about it? 2. Look at the title and the picture of the reading passage and predict what it is about. Then skim it quickly and see if you were right.Pre-readingIn Search of the Amber Room (Prussia) The Amber Room was made of almost seven thousand tons of amber. It was built in Prussia. Then, the king, Frederick William I, sent it to Peter the Great as a gift of friend-ship. And it soon became part of the winter palace. Later, Catherine Ⅱ had her artists add more details to its design. In September, 1941 the Nazi German army secretly stole the Amber Room and then it disappeared mystically. Background ReadingTask 1: Fast reading1. What does the text tell us about amber? 2. How many tons of amber were used to make the Amber Room? 3. What else were used to make the room besides amber? 4. Why was the Amber Room first built?5. When and why did Frederick William I give the Amber Room to Peter the Great? 6. What did Peter the Great give in return? 7. What did Catherine the Great do with the Amber Room？ 8. When and how was the Amber Room supposed to have been lost?1. The king of Prussia who gave the Amber Room as a gift to Russia was___. A. Frederick I B. Frederick William I C. Peter the Great D. Catherine IIBTask 2: Careful reading —Detailed information2. 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 friendsD3. The Amber Room was stolen by___. A. Russian soldiers B. German soldiers C. People in Konigsberg D. People in St Petersburg 4. In 1941, the city of Konigsberg was in ___. A. Germany B. Russia C. Sweden D. FranceBAC5. 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 awayParagraph 1. How was the Amber Room made? Paragraph 2. Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of Russia as a gift?Task 3: Main idea of each paragraphParagraph 3. How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of the world. Paragraph 4. How did the Amber Room get lost. Paragraph 5. How was a new Amber Room built.Task 4 Fill in the form:In 1716 , Frederick William I gave the Amber Room to Peter the Great , as a gi ... ...