2020-2021学年各年级下学期英语开学课件 必修二Unit1

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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.
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.
stole the Amber Room
rebuilt the Amber Room
While-reading
Read paragraph 1 and 3 and tell why the Amber Room is one of the wonders of the world.
1. Several tons of amber were used to make it. 2. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in
build the Amber Room gave the Amber Room to__P_e_t_e_r_t_h_e_G__r_e_a_t __ as a gift
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How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders
3 of the world?
5 How was a new Amber Room built?
4 How did the Amber Room get lost?
1 How was the Amber Room made?
V. Homework
1. Listen to the tape and read the passage aloud, paying attention to pronunciation and intonation. Then sort out the sentences you do not understand.
2. Review the words you have learned.
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
2. The King of Prussia wanted to have a troop of the Czar’s best soldiers.
3. Catherine II told her artists to add more details to the Amber Room. Almost six hundred candles lit the room, and its mirrors and pictures shone like gold.
Post-reading
Some useful expressions
Do/Don’t you think that …? Would you consider …? Why/Why not? Do you have any ideas about …? How do you know that? What do you think? What do you think of …? What’s your idea/opinion of …? What are your reasons for saying that? I think/don’t think that … I agree./Sorry, I don’t agree. In my opinion, … I don’t believe … because …
What happened to the Amber Room built the Amber Room gave it to Peter the Great
moved and redecorated it
During the 2nd World War
2003
Nazi
the Russians and Germans
II. Pre-reading
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
stole the Amber Room rebuilt the Amber Room
Post-reading
Discuss the following question in groups of four. Is it worth rebuilding lost cultural relics such as the Amber Room? Give your reasons.
Year Person
What happened to the Amber Room
_1_7_1_6_ 1770
_F_r_e_d_e_r_ic_k__I Frederick William I
Catherine II
1941 _2_0_0_3_
__N__a_zi____
the Russians and Germans
Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar
2 of Russia as a gift?
While-reading
Key
1. It took the country’s best artists about ten years to make the Amber Room. Several tons of amber were used to make it, and it was also decorated with gold and jewels. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days.
2020-2021学年度人教版必修二 Unit 1 Cultural relics
Period 1 Reading
I. Warming up
Discuss with your partner and answer the following questions.
1. What is a cultural relic? 2. Does a cultural relic always have to be rare and
of amber? 4. Look at the title and the picture of the reading
passage and predict what it is about.
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
IV. Leabharlann Baiduost-reading
Work in pairs and retell the passage. The following form may help you.
Year 1716 1770
Person Frederick I Frederick William I Catherine II
4. In 1941, the Nazi stole the Amber Room.
5. A new Amber Room was built by studying old photos of the former Amber Room.
While-reading
Read through the passage and fill in the form.
those days. 3. It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels,
which took the country’s best artists about ten years to make. 4. Almost six hundred candles lit the room, and its mirrors and pictures shone like gold.
III. While-reading
The following five questions summarize the main idea of the five paragraphs in the passage. Put the paragraph numbers in the box. Then answer the questions.