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Students answer the following questions:What is your favorite city? Why?What makes a city great? a long history many great people important events taking place there cultural relicsWarming upA cultural relicA cultural relic is something that has survived for a is something that has survived for a long time. It is often a part of something old that long time. It is often a part of something old that has remained while has remained while the rest ofthe rest of it has been it has been destroyed. A cultural relic tells people about the destroyed. A cultural relic tells people about the past. It is usually past. It is usually rarerare. .Do you have any in your family? Do you have any in your family? There are mainly three kinds of cultural There are mainly three kinds of cultural heritage: heritage: historic objectshistoric objects（文物）（文物）, , historic sites historic sites （遗址）（遗址）andand ancient buildings ancient buildings（建筑群）（建筑群）. .Ming Dynasty vasesTaj Mahalivory dragon boatMogao CavesCan you name some of the culture relics in China or the world?The Great Wall in ChinaThe terracotta warriors The Pyramids in EgyptStonehenge(巨石群）巨石群） in Britain Salisbury （索尔兹伯里）索尔兹伯里） plainThe Big Ben (In England)Lets see some amber production.color yellow- brownfeelfossil(化石化石)resin(树脂树脂)millions of yearsfeel as hard as stoneWhat is amber?AMBERbeautifulbeautifulrare/preciousrare/preciousCan you imagine a house made of amber ? In Search Of The Amber Room ReadingThe following five questions summarize the main ideas of the Five paragraphs in the passage. Put the paragraph numbers in the boxes. . 1 How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of the world? How did the Amber Room get lost? How was a new Amber room built? How was the Amber Room made? Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of Russia as a gift?34512Join the correct parts of the sentences together.1.Frederick 2.Frederick William 3.Peter the Great4.Catherine 5.The Nazi army6.The Russian and GermansA stole 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.F built a new Amber Room after studying pictures of the old one.Frederick WilliamFrederick What did these people do to the Amber Room?FrederickFrederick Williampass downFrederick William IFrederick William I Peter the GreatPeter the Great In returnas a gift pass downPeter the Greatstolen NaziCatherine II FrederickFrederick WilliamNazi171617701941recentlyrebuiltbuiltlostadded to more detailsgave to sb. as a giftstolenFill in the blanks: The Amber Room was a _ that Frederick William, the King of Prussia gave to Peter the Great. In _, the Czar sent him a _of his best soldiers. The Amber Room which took the countrys best _ about ten years to make was a treasure _ with gold and jewels. So it served as a small _hall for important visitors. Later it was moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where Catherine told her artists to add more _ to it. It was completed in 1770 and was considered one of the _ in the world. But after September 1941 when the two countries were at _it was missing. Where the Amber Room remains a _.giftreturntroopartistsdecoratedreceptiondetailswonderswarmysteryIn groups discuss: Is it worth rebuilding lost cultural relics such as the Amber Room or Yuan Ming Yuan in Beijing? Give your reasons.1. Try to tell one story of one of the Chinese cultural relics2. Read the text as fluently as you can.
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