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　　Unit 1 Cultural Relics
　　Period 1 Reading  IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM
　　Teaching aims: Students will be able to
　　1. learn about the history of the Amber Room;
　　2. learn to talt cultural relics;
　　3. practice the skill of guessing words and grasping main idea;
　　4. review the formation of attributive clause.
　　Step 1 warming up
　　1. Look at the pictures of cultural relics, such as the Great Wall, Yuanmingyuan and the Amber Room. Asdents to name them out and talt them.
　　Reference:
　　Cultural relics are physical remainders of what different peoples valued in the past and continue to value now. it can also be said that cultural relics are more than works of art, they are symbols of history and the people who lived in the past.
　　Step 2: reading    In search of the amber room
　　Pre-reading:
　　1. Do you know what amber is? Have you ever seen a piece of amber? What do you know about it?
　　Amber is a hard yellowish brown clear substance. It is often sued for jewels and decorative objects.
　　But can you imagine a room made of amber?
　　2. Look at the title and the picture then predict what the passage is about.
　　The passage may talt the brief introduction and the finding of the amber room which was lost.
　　3. Predict the style of the passage.
　　Narration.
　　Reading:
　　4.  Read the passage quickly. Answer the following questions:
　　When and where did the story happen?
　　Who made the Amber Room? Why?
　　When did the Amber Room disappear?
　　What finally happened to the Amber Room?
　　5. Try to summarize the main idea of each paragraph.
　　General ideas
　　The passage The history of the Amber Room
　　P1 The introduction about the Amber Room: design, color, shape, material.
　　P2 The present to the Czar: a part of winter palace in St. Petersburg, a reception hall for important visitors.
　　P3 The relocating of the Amber Room
　　P4 The missing of the Amber Room
　　P5 The rebuilding of the Amber Room
　　6. Detailed reading
　　Analyze the text:
　　In search of the Amber Room
　　P1 1. Frederick William could never have imagined that…
　　translate “could never have imagined”: 从未想过
　　This sentence tells us that the amber room must have experienced a series of amazing things.
　　2. Look at the following sentences. Combine them using attributive clause.
　　①The Amber Room is a gift.
　　②The amber was selected.
　　③The Amber Room is decorated with gold and jewels.
　　A. Several tons of amber were used to make it.
　　B. It had a beautiful yellow-brown color like honey.
　　C. It took the country’s best artists about 10years to make it.
　　3. Guess the meaning of the words “select” and “decorate”.
　　P2&
　　P3 1. Fill in the blanks with proper words or expressions:
　　The Amber Room _____ _____ Fredrick William Ⅰ at first. However, he didn’t want to keep it and gave it to Peter the Great as a _____. The Czar sent him a troop _____ _____. Later another ruler of Russia, CatherineⅡhad the Amber Room _____ to a palace outside St. Petersburg. More details _____ _____ _____ it. Unfortunately, the Amber Room _____ mirrors and pictures are shinning like gold is now missing.
　　2. Paraphrase the sentence: About four meters long, the room served as a small reception hall for important visitors.
　　P4 1. Translate the sentence: Before the Nazis could get to the summer palace, the Russians were able to remove some furniture and small art objects from the Amber Room.
　　2. There is no doubt that….
　　3. What happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery.