B2unit1culturalrelicswarmingupreading.ppt

Unit1 Cultural relics Made by Carol Fan Guessing! According to my description or the picture, guess what cultural relic it is. Guessing! Guessing! According to my description or the picture, guess what cultural relic it is. Guessing! Egyptian Pyramids Other cultural relics… Summary What’s the characteristics(特征) of a cultural relic? It can be any object, or building. It has survived a long time. It is the symbol of its country or culture. In a larger sense, it can be said that all the cultural relics belong to all people and whole societies, not a certain individual(个人). Quiz Can you name some materials that are used to make or build cultural relics? Stones, bronze, jade, gold, ivory, amber… Do you know what amber is? a hard yellow-brown (黄褐色) substance(物质) used to make jewellery and decorative(装饰的) objects. In Search of the Amber Room 1. Read the text quickly and underline the important information in the passage. Time, persons, places, what happened to the Amber Room… 2. Summarize the main idea of the passage. It’s about the strange history of the Amber Room. A detective story? This piece of passage is a narrative prose(叙事散文). It tells the history of Amber Room in the order of time.? 3.Read the passage again and summarize the main idea of each paragraph. Para.1 The introduction of the Amber Room: material, color, design. Para.2 The King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of Russia as a gift. Para.3 Catherine Ⅱ had the Amber Room moved to a palace and added more details to it. Para.4 The missing of the Amber Room. Para.5 The rebuilding of the Amber Room. 5. Use the information you can remember to fill in the blanks. That’s all~ * Mogao Caves or Caves of the Thousand Buddhas According to my description or the picture, guess what cultural relics they are. 12 bronze animal heads Taj Mahal According to my description or the picture, guess what cultural relics they are. Predict what has happened to the Amber Room? A detective story?