Using LanguageⅠ教学内容概述

Class___________

Name___________

Task 1:

1.

What is a cultural relic?

A.

Any object that was made sometime in the past. (

) B.

May or may not be very valuable

(

)

C.

Tell us something of the way people lived at the time it was made. (

) 2.

A cultural relic always has to be rare and valuable.

(

) 3.

It is enough to have survived for a long time.

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)

4.

For the following objects, which is a cultural relic? Please choose the right answers from A, B, C, and D.

(

) A. Ming Dynasty vase

B. Taj Mahal

C. ivory dragon boat

D. Mogao Caves

Task 2: Find out these useful phrases from Warming up, Pre-reading and Reading and translate them into Chinese.

1. survive for a long time

___________________ 2. whether or not

___________________

3. a piece of amber

___________________ 4. in search of

___________________

5. such an amazing history

___________________ 6. be used to do sth.

___________________

7. in the fancy style

___________________ 8. be decorated with

___________________

9. in fact

___________________ 10. belong to

___________________

11. in return

___________________ 12. a troop of

___________________

13. four meters long

___________________ 14. serve as

___________________

15. add … to …

___________________ 16. be at war

___________________

17. remove … from…

___________________ 18. less than

___________________

19. There is no doubt

___________________ 20. think highly of

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Task3. find out the places, years and characters(人物) in the passage.

Places: First, it was made in_______________. Then, it was given to______________. During World War II, it was taken to ____________.

Now, it is missing Years: 1716

Frederick WilliamⅠgave the Amber Room to Peter the Great_________. 1770

Catherine Ⅱ___________ to the Amber room. 1941

The Nazi German army __________ the Amber Room. 2003

The _____________ of the Amber Room was completed. Characters:______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Task4. Fill in the blanks according to the Reading.

The Amber Room A general was made of tons of ____1_____, whose colour

was yellow-brown introduction to It and it was _____2______ with gold and jewels. It took Prussian best the Amber artists about ten years to make it. Room Time Times of Peter the Great Events In 1716, Frederick William I gave it to Peter the Great to exchange it for a (an) _____3_______________.

[来源:Z.xx.k.Com]Then, it became a small ________4_____

__________ of the Czar’s winner palace in St Petersburg. Catherine II had her artists add _____5___

________ to it and the work was completed in 1770 — almost six hundred candles lit the room and its ____6_____

and

__7___ shone like gold. Some furniture and small art objects were ____8________ from the

room. The Amber Room itself was stolen by ____9____

__________ ________, and then it was gone. The Russians and the Germans worked together to rebuild a new Amber Room to celebrate the _______10

___________ of St Petersburg. Times of Catherine II

World War II

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背景知识

琥珀

琥珀是史前松树脂的化石。琥珀是由千万年前植物所分泌出来的树脂，经过地壳变动而深埋地下，逐渐演化而成的一种天然化石。形成于4000万年至6000万年前，琥珀的主要成分是碳、氢、氧以及少量的硫，硬度2-3，比重1.05-1.10，熔点150C-180C，燃点250C-375C。琥珀是很“涩”的物质，没有两块琥珀是完全相同的。品种有金珀、虫珀、香珀、灵珀、石珀、花珀、水珀、明珀、蜡珀等，尤以含有完整昆虫或植物的琥珀为珍贵

。

琥珀屋

1709年，生性豪奢的普鲁士国王腓特烈一世命令当时普鲁士最有名的建筑师安·休鲁达和戈·德恩着手兴建“琥珀屋”（Amber Room）。完成后的琥珀屋面积约55平方米，共有全由琥珀制成的12块护壁镶板和12个柱脚，其上饰有银箔，可任意拼装成各种形状。在当时，琥珀的价值为黄金的13倍，因此“琥珀屋”无论从材料的贵重程度还是工艺水平来说都堪称稀世奇珍，曾有“世界第八奇迹”之誉。

为了向俄国示好，加强两国间的军事同盟关系，腓特烈一世在1716年决定将琥珀屋赠予俄国的彼得大帝。1717年，琥珀屋被运抵俄国的圣彼得堡。后来，这座估计价值1亿5千万英镑的艺术珍品又被运到了圣彼得堡郊外沙皇村（后更名为普希金城）的凯瑟琳宫。

德国入侵前苏联后，凯瑟琳宫的工匠曾打算用纱和假墙纸把琥珀屋遮盖起来。不过，攻占皇宫的德军识破了伪装，将琥珀屋拆开运到了德国。人们知道德国人曾把琥珀屋收藏在东普鲁士的哥尼斯堡，但自那以后就再也没有人清楚它的下落。60年来，人们有过各种各样的揣测，寻找，却始终不见其踪影。充满传奇色彩的琥珀屋成了全世界最重要的失踪艺术品之一。