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Unit 1 Cultural Relics The Third Period (Reading and comprehending)

Knowledge: Learn some new phrases and some new sentence patterns. Ability: 1.Learn some detailed information about the Amber Room. 2.Improve the students’ reading ability.

3.Train the students’ speaking ability.

Emotion: 1.Train the students’ ability to cooperate with others.

2.Enable the Ss to talk about the story of the Amber Room Teaching important points: 1 .The new words and expressions; 2. Learn some detailed information about the Amber Room; 3. Train the students’ ability to cooperate with others;

4. Train the students’ speaking ability.

Teaching difficult points: 1.Words:rare,

fancy, wooden, former,

worth

castle survive, design, decorate, remove,

2. Phrases: look into, belong to, in search of, in return, at war, take apart, think highly of; 3. Improve the students’ reading ability.

5.Train the students’ ability to read key information

Teaching methods: 1.Watching the APPT 2.Learning and practicing. Teaching procedures: Step 1 Greetings and lead-in T: Show some pictures Students give their answers. T: Very good. Today we’re going to learn another cultural relic. Look at the two pictures on pages1—2; do you know what it is called? Ss: The Amber Room. T: Yes, It’s called the Amber Room. What do you know about the cultural relic“the Amber Room”?

T shows the Ss some pictures of “the Amber Room”

Step 2 Fast reading: Read the text quickly, trying to get the main idea each paragraph. Discuss in your group of four. The following five questions summarize the main idea of the five paragraphs in the passage. Put the paragraph numbers in the blank. Then answer the questions.

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How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of the world .

How was a new Amber Room built? .

How did the Amber Room get lost?

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How was the Amber Room made? .

Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of Russia as a gift?

Step 3 Careful reading , then fill in the blank

purpose The Amber Room It was _____ ____ the palace of Frederick I .

Several tons of ______ which had a beautiful ___________ material color

were used for making it , with _______ and _______. design time spent The room was in the ______ style. It took about __________ to make.

Step 4 Post-readingRead paragraph 1 and 3 and tell why the Amber Room is one of the wonders of the world. 1. Several tons of amber were used to make it. 2. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days. 3. It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, which took the country’s best artists about ten years to make. 4. Almost six hundred candles lit the room, and its mirrors and pictures shone like gold. Step 5 Homework Finish the form

In 1716

What happened to the Amber Room ?

Later

What Catherine II had done to the Amber Room?

In 1770

What was the room like then? In September 1941

After that

Recently

The Amber Room

___________ by the Nazis.

What happened _______________.

to the room

What have the Russians and Germans done? In 2003

Did the Amber Room open again?