必修2 第1.ppt

9. in return 回报, 作为报酬 What can we do for them in return for all the help they have given us? 我们将怎样来报答他们所给予我们的 种种帮助呢? I gave him some books in return for his assistance. in turn 轮流地, 依次; 反过来 by turns 轮流地, 时而…时而… * Reading Do you know what cultural relics are? Cultural relics are traces or features surviving from a past age and serving to remind people of them. Warming up Ming Dynasty vase The Pyramids in Egypt The Taj Mahal (In India) The Sydney Opera (in Australia) ivory dragon boat Mogao Caves (In China) 1. What do you think of the cultural relics? 2. Suppose one of them got lost, how would you feel and what will you do with it? (Try our best to find it; Protect the others in order that they will not get lost; Rebuild a new one if we really can’t find it.) Pre-reading In 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 Reading Task 1: Fast reading 1. 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