人教版高一英语模块二Unit1Reading

Discuss the following questions with your partners : 1.What is a cultural relic ? It is any object, building or item that was made sometime in the past; it may or may not be valuable; it tells us something of the way people lived at the time ia was made.
2. If you know, what do you know about the
places? 3. Which one would you like to visit? Why?
Taj Mahal(印度泰姬陵）
Mogao Caves
The Great Wall
It was built to protect China’s northern border in the 3rd century BC,and later it was rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty.
3.Are cultural relics only objects like vases or can they be buildings too?
A cultural relic can be a-reading 1.Have you ever seen a piece of amber?What do you know
Unit 1 Cultural relics
Warming UP ,Pre-reading and Reading
Warming up Look at the three pictures and discuss these questions:
1. Do you know these places?
2.Does a cultural relic always have to be rare and valuable? Is it enough to have survived for a long time?
It does not need to be rare or valuable;Yes, it is enough to have survived a long time.
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.
It tells us the strange history of the Amber Room.
Palace museum in Beijing Mount Huangshan
Forbidden City
The Yuanmingyuan Garden in Beijing
Ming Dynasty vase
Ivory Dragon Boat All these are cultural relics.
about it?
Amber is actually the fossilized sap or liquid from pine trees. If circumstances are right,the sap will finally become hard turn it into the resin that we know today. If it has come into Contact with insects when still in its liquid form, they may become caught in this sticky liquid and become part of the amber. So real amber may contain some evidence of insect life. Amber can be several colours: brown, yellow,green and honey-gold.
As is known to all, China is a country with a history of more than 5,000 years. In the long history, people in different periods have left us quite a number of cultural sites, many of which are world famous. Now look at the following pictures .
Unit 1 Cultural Relics
Reading
beautiful
rare/precious
amber
A picture of the Amber Room in St Petersburg in Russia
Task 1 Read the text quickly, trying to get the main idea each paragraph.(work in pairs) Main idea of each paragraph: 1.The Amber Room has a strange history and something about its design and building. 2.The history of the Amber Room and its functions in Russia. 3.Catherine II had the Amber Room moved to the palace outside St Petersburg and it became one of the great wonders.