Unit 1 Cultural relics Period 1 Reading I. Warming up 1. What is a cultural relic? 2. Does a cultural relic always have to be rare and valuable? Is it enough to have survived for a long time? 3. Are cultural relics only objects like vases or can they be buildings too? Look at the pictures and discuss what they are and whether they are cultural relics or not. Discuss with your partner and answer the following questions. Warming up 5 6 7 A cultural relic is any object, building or item that was made sometime in the past. It may be many thousands of years old or it may be a few hundred; may or may not be valuable; tells us something of the way people lived at the time it was made. This may be because of its method of manufacture or how the item was used. Warming up Look at the pictures and answer the following questions. 1. What are the things in the pictures made of? 2. Are they cultural relics? Why or why not? 3. Can you imagine a large room made of several tons of amber? 4. Look at the title and the picture of the reading passage and predict what it is about. II. Pre-reading 1.Find in the vocabulary list of this unit some adjectives which can be used to describe cultural relics. rare, valuable, amazing, fancy, wooden, former, worth 2. Find some nouns which refer to cultural relics. vase, jewel, painting, castle 3. Find some verbs which refer to building or taking apart of cultural relics. survive, select, design, decorate, remove, take apart, explode Pre-reading III. While-reading 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? How was the Amber Room made? Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of Russia as a gift? The following five questions summarize the main idea of the five paragraphs in the passage. Put the paragraph numbers in the box. Then answer the questions. While-reading Key 1. It took the countrys best artists about ten years to make the Amber Room. Several tons of amber were used to make it, and it was also decorated with gold and jewels. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days. 2. The King of Prussia wanted to have a troop of the Czars best soldiers. 3. Catherine II told her artists to add more details to the Amber Room. Almost six hundred candles lit the room, and its mirrors and pictures shone like gold. 4. In 1941, the Nazi stole the Amber Room. 5. A new Amber Room was built by studying old photos of the former Amber Room. Read through the passage and fill in the form. YearPersonWhat happened to the Amber Room __________ the Amber Room _____ Frederick William I gave the Amber Room to_________________ as a gift 1770Catherine II__________________________________ ________________ 1941_________ the Amber Room _____the Russians and Germans the Amber Room Frederick I 1716 Peter the Great had the Amber Room moved outside St Petersburg Nazi 2003 While-reading build stole rebuilt Read 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 countrys best artists about ten years to make. 4. Almost six hundred candles lit the room, and its mirrors and pictures shone like gold. While-reading YearPersonWhat happened to the Amber Room Frederick Ibuilt the Amber Room 1716Frederick William I gave it to Peter the Great 1770Catherine IImoved and redecorated it During the 2nd World War Nazistole the Amber Room 2003the Russians and Germans rebuilt the Amber Room IV. Post-reading Work in pairs and retell the passage. The following form may help you. Discuss the following question in groups of four. Is it worth rebuilding lost cultural relics such as the Amber Room? Give your reasons. Post-reading Some useful expressions Do/Dont you think that ? Would you consider ? Why/Why not? Do you have any ideas about ? How do you know that? What do you think? What do you think of ? Whats your idea/opinion of ? What are your reasons for saying that? I think/dont think that I agree./Sorry, I dont agree. In my opinion, I dont believe because Post-reading 1. Listen to the tape and read the passage aloud, paying attention to pronunciation and intonation. Then sort out the sentences you do not understand. 2. Review the words you have learned. V. Homework