高中英语必修二Unit1教学课件

Forbidden City
Potala Palace, Lhasa
Mount Huangshan (1990)
Longmen Grottoes (2000)
Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area (1992)
Classical Gardens of Suzhou (1997)
F built a new Amber Room after studying pictures of the old one.
The following five questions summarize the main idea of the Five paragraphs in the passage. Put the paragraph numbers in the boxes. Then Answer the questions.
A st源自文库le the Amber Room.
B sent a troop of his best soldiers to the King of Prussia.
C had the Amber Room made.
D had it moved outside St Petersburg.
E gave it to the Czar as a gift.
2.Why it is called the Amber room and how many tons of amber were used to make the Amber Room?
3.What did Catherine the Great do with the Amber Room?
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Warming Up – II ( 4m )
Show more cultural relics.
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 pictures and guess what heritage they are.
3 How did the Amber Room become one of the
world?
wonders of the
4 How did the Amber Room get lost?
5 How was a new Amber room built?
1 How was the Amber Room made?
Join the correct parts of the sentences together.
1.Frederick Ⅰ 2.Frederick William Ⅰ 3.Peter the Great 4.Catherine Ⅱ 5.The Nazi army 6.The Russian and Germans
Group 1 The Pyramids in Egypt
Group 2 The Great Wall/China
Group 3 tonehenge / Britain Salisbury plain
Which one would you like to choose? Why?
Reasons for their importance Symbols of their countries A concrete annotation of their cultures Have a memorable significance Bring in money from tourism
Reading -- III Answering questions ( 5m )
Read the text again and answer the following questions(discuss in pairs):
1.What was given to the Russian people as a great gift by Frederick William I ,the king of Prussia?
Pre-reading ( 2m ) Students answer the following questions: •What is your favorite city? Why? •What makes a city great?
a long history cultural relics many great people important events taking place there
2 Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of
Russia as a gift?
Is it worth rebuilding lost cultural relics such as the Amber Room or Yuan Ming Yuan in Beijing? Give your reasons.
Unit 1 Cultural relics
Warming Up – I ( 6m )
Look at the three groups of pictures and discuss these questions. 1. Do you know these places? 2. If you know, what do you know about the places? 3. Which one would you like to visit? Why?