必修2 unit1 In Search Of The Amber Room学案

Unit 1 Cultural relics---Reading
【学习目标】
1. Get the main idea of the passage.
2. Learn to describe a cultural relic.
【阅读及检测】
I.1) Do you know what a cultural relic is? Does is it have to be rare and valuable?
2) Have you ever heard of amber? Can you tell us something about amber?
3) Have you ever seen anything made of amber?
II. Look at the picture on Page 1 and predict what the passage is about. Then skim the passage and see the main idea of each part.
Part 1 ( ) The _______ of the Amber Room
Part 2 ( ) The _______ of the Amber Room
Part 3 ( ) A brief _______ to the Amber Room
Part 4 ( )
The _______ of the Amber Room
【要点精讲】
I. Join the correct parts of the sentences together.
1. Frederick Ⅰ a. stole the Amber Room.
2. Frederick William Ⅰ b. sent a troop of his best soldiers to the King of Prussia.
3. Peter the Great c. had the Amber Room made.
4. Catherine Ⅱ d. had it moved outside St Petersburg.
5. The Nazi army e. gave it to the Czar as a gift.
6. The Russian and Germans f. built a new Amber Room after studying pictures of the old one. II. Read in details and fill in the blanks.
The Amber Room
Time spent A _________of artists spent ______ years making it.
Materials Several tons of _________were used for making it, with _______ and _________. Purpose It was made not to be a _______, but for the __________ of Frederick I.
results It was ________to Russian people after Frederick William I succeeded his father and became the ________of Prussian; soon it became part of the Czar’s winter palace; it was one of the great _________of the world. In 1941, it was ________ by the Nazis. Now a new Amber Room has been _________in Russian and it _______ ________ _______ the old one, _________ the old photos.
【自主练习题】先用适当的关系词填空，然后把句子翻译成汉语。

1. This gift is the Amber Room, __________was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it.
2. The amber ________was selected had a beautiful yellow-brown color like honey.
3. It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, ________took the country’s best artist about ten years to make.
4. Frederick William I, to _________the amber room belonged decided not to keep it.
5. Catherine II had the amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg ________she spent her summers.
6. In 1770 the room was completed the way ________she wanted.
7. This was a time _________the two countries were at war.
8. There is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, __________was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea.
【知识链接】
1. I gave him a warning, ________ he turned a deaf ear.
A. of which
B. for which
C. to that
D. to which
2. I'll come at ten，________ I'll be free.
A. which
B. that
C. when
D. what
3. ________ is known to everybody, the moon travels round the earth once every month.
A. It
B. As
C. That
D. What
4. Tom’s mother kept telling him that he should work harder, but _____didn’t help.
A. he
B. which
C. that
D. who
5. She has two daughters, ________ became doctors.
A. all of them
B. all of whom
C. both of them
D. both of whom
【点评及总结】Read the text again and fill in the blanks.
Frederick William I, __________, could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have __________an amazing history. This gift was the Amber Room, __________ was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. The amber which was __________had a beautiful yellow-brown color __________.The design of the room was in the __________ style popular in those days. It was also a treasure __________gold and jewels, __________took the country's best artists about ten years to make.
【作业】1. Read the passage again and find out some key language points in the passage.
2. 习题集Unit1 lesson
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