Learning about Language教学设计实例

高一必修二 Unit1 Culture relics

第1课时 Warming up and reading

学习目标：熟悉与本单元相关的话题，并通过阅读积累词汇。

重在把握文章结构段落大意，从宏观与微观双重理解。

背景材料导入：

Amber stone isn’t a true stone. It has a history of 30 to 90 million years old. Amber has been highly prized for its warmth and beauty, and has been carved into jewelry and traded among cultures for thousands of years.

Identification: Traditional amber stone is hard, golden-yellow to brownish-yellow. In rare forms it can be blue or green. It is softer than stone and can be easily scratched. Because amber was created by living trees. You can tell the difference between real amber and fake amber by rubbing the amber with a cloth. Real amber will produce a special smell. Real amber will also float in salt water, while fake amber will sink.

Geography: The Baltic Sea area has many kinds of amber. Vikings traded amber as far back as 800. Amber is found all over the world: in both North and South America, Sicily, Romania and New Zealand. Uses: Amber stone has been used for many things besides necklaces. Amber has been carved into art, made into teething rings. The most wonderful use of amber has to be Peter the Great’s Amber Room.

Answer the following questions. 1. How can people tell whether the amber is real? 2. What is the main use of the amber stone? Reading

1 Fast-reading: Put the proper paragraph numbers in the boxes. □

How was a new Amber Room built? □

How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of the world? □

How did the Amber Room get lost? □

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

How was the Amber Room made? Careful-reading: Choose the best answer for each question according to the passage. 1.The King of Prussia who gave the Amber Room as a gift to Russia was

. A. Frederick Ⅰ

B. Frederick William Ⅰ

C. Peter the Great

D. Catherine Ⅱ

2.The Amber Room was stolen by

. A. Russian soldiers

B. German soldiers

C. people in Königsberg

D. people in St Petersburg 3.In 1941, the city of Königsberg was in

. A. Germany

B. Russia

C. Sweden

D. France 4.The Russians didn’t hide the Amber Room because

. 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 Post reading: Read the text again and finish each blank with only one word. The Amber Room

Year

What happened to the Amber Room before

Frederick Ⅰ

made it for the 1.

in Prussia. And the 2.

1716 of the room took the country’s best artists about ten years to make

1716 Frederick William Ⅰ

gave the Amber Room to Peter the Great as a 3.

1770 Catherine Ⅱ

4.

it and told her artists to add more 5.

to it 1941

The Nazi German and Russia were at 6.

. The Nazi German army 7.

the Amber Room and the Amber Room was 8.

2003 The 9.

of the Amber Room, which was used to 10.

the 300th birthday of St Petersburg, was completed in this year