高中英语必修2（人教版）Unit1CulturalrelicsReading课件（共16张）.pptVIP

Unit 1 Cultural relics Period 1 Reading I. Warming up 1. What is a cultural relic? 2. Does a cultural relic always have to be rare and valuable? Is it enough to have survived for a long time? 3. Are cultural relics only objects like vases or can they be buildings too? Look at the pictures and discuss what they are and whether they are cultural relics or not. Discuss with your partner and answer the following questions. Warming up 1 2 3 4 Warming up 5 6 7 Warming up 8 6 7 9 10 11 12 A cultural relic is any object, building or item that was made sometime in the past. It may be many thousands of years old or it may be a few hundred; may or may not be valuable; tells us something of the way people lived at the time it was made. This may be because of its method of manufacture or how the item was used. Warming up Look at the pictures and answer the following questions. 1. What are the things in the pictures made of? 2. Are they cultural relics? Why or why not? 3. Can you imagine a large room made of several tons of amber? 4. Look at the title and the picture of the reading passage and predict what it is about. II. Pre-reading 1. Find in the vocabulary list of this unit some adjectives which can be used to describe cultural relics. rare, valuable, amazing, fancy, wooden, former, worth 2. Find some nouns which refer to cultural relics. vase, jewel, painting, castle 3. Find some verbs which refer to building or taking apart of cultural relics. survive, select, design, decorate, remove, take apart, explode Pre-reading III. While-reading How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of the world? How was a new Amber Room built? How did the Amber Room get lost? How was the Amber Room made? Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of Russia as a gift? 5 4 1 3 2 The following five questions