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　　Unit 1 Cultural relics
　　Period One: Warming up and Reading
　　Step 1 Warming up
　　1. 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 reliany great people; important events taking place there)
　　4. In your opinion, what are cultural relics?
　　2. Show some pictures of some famous cultural relics.
　　(1) The Great Wall                        (2)The Pyramids in Egypt
　　(3)The Tai Mahal (In India) (4) The Sydney Opera (In Australia)
　　(5) The Great Barrier Reef (In Australia)       (6)The Big Ben (In England)
　　Step 2 Pre-reading
　　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)
　　Task 1: Fast reading—Main idea
　　1) Why is it called the Amber Room?
　　(It was given the name because almost seven thousand tons of amber were used to make it)
　　2) What happened to the Amber Room?
　　(The Amber Room was given to the Russian people as a great gift by the king)
　　Task 2: Careful reading—Detailed information (Ex 1&2 on page 2&3)
　　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 II
　　2. 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 friends
　　3. 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. France
　　5. 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 away
　　T or F questions:
　　(     ) 1. The Amber Room was not easy to make.
　　(     ) 2. Catherine II didn’t like everything about the Amber Room when she first