高中英语新人教必修二Unit1Culturalrelics-Reading[课件].ppt

Reading ;Do you know what a cultural relic is? Cultural relic it is any object, building or item that was made something in the past. It may be many thousands of years old or it may be a few hundred. it may or may not valuable;it 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.;Ming Dynasty vase;The Taj Mahal (In India);ivory dragon boat;Mogao Caves (In China);The Pyramids in Egypt;The 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.;Amber;amber;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 friendship. 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. ; Reading;3. What else were used to make the room besides amber? 4. When and why did Frederick William I give the Amber Room to Peter the Great?;5. What did Peter the Great give in return? 6. What did Catherine the Great do with the Amber Room? 7. 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 t