人教版高中英语必修二课件：Unit1 Warming up and Reading(共43张PPT).ppt

Para.2: A gift to Peter the Great
Q1: What was the amber room first made for? It was first made for the palace of Frederick I.
Q2: What happened to the Amber Room in 1716?
3. The Amber Room was taken apart, put inside some wooden boxes and taken away by the Nazis. T
4. The new Amber Room was built at the winter palace. F
Task 3: Main idea of each paragraph
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.
Amber
beautiful
_A__.
A. Germany
B. Russia
C. Sweden
D. France
5. The Russians didn’t hide the Amber Room because ___C___. A. they were at war B. they couldn’t find a place C. the German soldiers arrived too soon D. no train could take it away
Importance: The imperial palace/ the largest museum of cultural relics in China
Ancient Villages in Southern
The Classical Gardens of Suzhou
Anhui - Xidi and
Unit 1
Cultural relics
Words and expressions
Warming up
Do you know what a cultural relic is? Cultural relics are traces or features surviving from a past age and serving to remind people of them.
Are cultural relics only objects like vases or can they be buildings too? Look at the pictures below and discuss what they are and whether they are cultural relics or not.
besides amber?
4. When and why did Frederick Peter the Great?
5. What did Peter the Great give in return? 6. What did Catherine the Great do with
Paragraph 4. How did the Amber Room get lost.
Paragraph 5. How was a new Amber Room built.
Para.1 An introduction of
the Amber Room
Colour Design
Yellow-brown
The Tai Mahal (In India)
ivory dragon boat
Mogao Caves
• It is made up of 492 caves, which were deserted in the fourteenth century and lay untouched until the beginning of the 20th century.
3. The Amber Room was stolen by__B_.
A. Russian soldiers
B. German soldiers
C. People in Konigsberg
D. People in St Petersburg
4. In 1941, the city of Konigsberg was in
In the fancy style popular in those days
How long was
it built?
10 years for a team of the country’s best artists.
The best and biggest work of amber art ever made. （有史以来所制作的最大最好的琥珀艺术作品）
Whom do cultural relics belong to? Do you have any in your family?
In a larger sense, it can be said that all the cultural relics belong to all peoples and the whole society, not a certain individual.
Seven Ancient Wonders
Name: The Great Wall Place: Beijing Time: Since 475BC Importance: the symbol of China and its culture.
Name: The Forbidden City Place: Beijing Time: 1406 (the Ming Dynasty)
the Amber Room？ 7. When and how was the Amber Room
supposed to have been lost?
Careful reading
—Detailed information
1. The king of Prussia who gave the Amber Room as a gift to Russia was_B__. A. Frederick I B. Frederick William I C. Peter the Great D. Catherine II
Hongcun
the Leshan Giant Buddha
The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors
Mount Huangshan
Pre-reading
1. Have you ever seen a piece of amber? What do you know about it?
Does a cultural relic always have to be rare and valuable? Is it enough to have survived for a long time?
No, it does not need to be rare or valuable; Yes, it is enough to have survived a long time.
Paragraph 1. How was the Amber Room made?
Paragraph 2. Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of Russia as a gift?
Paragraph 3. How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of the world.
Fast reading
1. What does the text tell us about amber? 2. How many tons of amber were used to
make the Amber Room? 3. What else were used to make the room
(1716)
gave
to
as a gift of friendship
Frederick I Frederick William I
to
in return Peter the Great
Sent him a troop of his best soldiers
Served as
1. his winter palace in St Petersburg. 2. a small reception hall for important visitors.
• It lies at the rock side of the Mingsha Mountain in Gansu province.
• It’s worth the name of art treasure house of the Chinese Nation.
Name: The Great Pyramid of Khufu Place: Egypt Time: around the year 2560 BC Importance: the only surviving of the
True (T) or false (F).
1. It took some best artists about ten years to make the old Amber Room. T
2. The Amber Room served as a reception hall for the guests of Frederick I. F
D. Frederick I
pass down
In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted.
rare/precious
amber
Reading
IN SEARTCH OF THE AMBER ROOM
Background
The Amber Room was made of almost seven thousand tons of amber. It was built in Prussia. Then, the king, Frederick William I, sent it to Peter the Great as a gift of friend-ship. And it soon became part of the winter palace. Later, Catherine Ⅱ had her artists add more details to its design. In September, 1941 the Nazi German army secretly stole the Amber Room and then it disappeared mystically.
2. The king of Prussia gave the Amber Room to Russia because__D___. A. he wanted to marry Catherine II. B. he was kind. C. he needed better soldiers D. he wanted to make friends
Para. 3:
The changes of the Amber Room
Who had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg?
A. Frederick William I B. Catherine II
C. Peter the Great