Learning about Language优秀教学实录

Module 2 Unit 1 Learning about Language Teaching Plan Step 1: Learning about the new words 1．survive He had survived heart bypass surgery.他在心脏搭桥手术中活了下来。

2．design 设计；图案；构思

（1）.They wanted to design a machine that was both attractive and practical. 他们想设计一台既美观又实用的机器。

（2）.He chicaned every detail of the design. 他对设计的每一细节都加以挑剔。

3．fancy 奇怪的；异样的; 想象；设想；爱好

（1）.The magazinewas packaged in a fancy plastic case with attractive graphics. 这本杂志装在一个带有漂亮图纹的别致塑料盒子里。

（2）.So you fancy yourself as the boss someday? 那么你认为自己有一天会成老板？

4．doubt 怀疑；疑惑; 怀疑；不信

This raises doubts about the point of advertising. 这引起了人们对于广告作用的怀疑。

5．worth 值得的；相当于……的价值

He's decided to get a look at the house and see if it might be worth buying. 他已经决定去看一下那所房子，看看是否值得买。

6．in search of＝in one's search for 寻找；搜寻

Armed troops searched the hospital yesterday.武装部队昨天搜查了这家医院。

7．belong to 属于；为……的一员

The house had belonged to her family for three orfour generations. 这座房子属于她家已有三四代了。

Step 2: Cloze Test IN SEARCH OF THE AMBERROOM Frederick William I, the King of Prussia, could never have imagined 1_____ his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such 2____ amazing history. This gift was the Amber Room, 3_____ was given this name because several tons of amber 4_____used to make it. The amber which was 5_____ had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days. It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, 6 ____ took the country's best artists about ten years to make. In fact, the room was not made to be a gift. It was designed for the palace of Frederick I. 7__, the next King of Prussia, Frederick William I, to 8___ the amber room belonged, decided not to keep it. In 1716 he gave it to Peter the Great. In 9____, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers. 10___ the Amber Room became part of the Czar's winter palace in St Petersburg. About four metres long, the room served 11_____ as mall reception hall for important visitors. Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details to it. In 1770 the room was completed the

way she wanted. Almost six hundred candles lit the room, and its mirrors and pictures shone like gold. Sadly, 12____ the Amber Room was considered one of the wonders of the world, it is now missing. In September 1941,the Nazi army was near St Petersburg. 13___ was a time when the two countries were 14____war. Before the Nazis could get to the summer palace, the Russians were able to remove some 15____ and small art objects from the Amber Room. However, some of the Nazis secretly stole the room itself. In less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven wooden boxes. There is no doubt16the boxes were 17____ put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea. After that, what happened to the Amber Room 18_____ a mystery. Recently, the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room at the summer palace. By 19____ old photos of the former Amber Room, they have made the new one look like the old one. In 2003 it was ready for the people of St Petersburg 20____ they celebrated the 300thbirthday of their city. 1. Athat

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D.after 参考答案：

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Step 3: Fill in the blank. Frederick William I, the king of Prussia, would never have imagined that his greatest gift 1. ____ the Russian people would have such an 2. _____ (amaze) history. This gift was the Amber

Room, 3._____ was given this name 4. ____ several tons of amber were used to make 5.___. The amber which 6. _____ (select) had a beautiful yellow-brown colour 7.____ honey. The design of the 8.____ was in the fancy style popular in those days. It was also a treasure 9. ___(decorate) with gold and jewels, which took the country's best artists about ten years 10. ____(make). 参考答案：

1.to 2. amazing 3.which 4. because 5. it 6. was selected 7. like 8. room 9. decorated 10. to make