Unit 1 Cultural relics
The Third Period Reading

I. Teaching aims
1. Ability aims
1) Get the students to comprehend the text, the Amber Room.
2) Get the students to be able to talk about or retell the Amber Room with their own words.
3) Get the students to be able to search for more information, either past or today, of the Amber Room through their own possible ways.
2. Language aims
1). Enable the students to understand key sentences in this passage.
2). Enable the students to use key sentence structures in key sentences.
II. Teaching important points
1. Get the students to understand the history of the Amber Room, the world cultural relics and strengthen their realization of the cultural relics’ protection.
2. Get the students to learn to tell the facts and views, toughen their ability of thinking analysis.
III. Teaching methods
Cognitive approach and task-based method.
IV. Teaching aids
A tape-recorder, a computer connected with the Internet and a projector
V. Teaching procedures
Step 1 Revision
Ask the students some questions:
1.What is a cultural relic?
2.Can you think of any cultural relics you know?
3.What shall do to protect cultural relics?
4.What will you do if you have find a cultural relic?
Step 2 Leading-in
Show some pictures of the Amber Room to stir the students’ stimulation on sensory, arousing their interest in reading the passage and sympathy. These pictures will also help the students comprehend the Amber Room. Meanwhile, we might as well give them some questions to help them read the text with purpose.



1.What does the text tell us about amber?
2.How many tone of amber were used to make the Amber Room?
3.What else were used to make the room besides amber?
4.Why was the Amber Room first built?
5.When and why did Frederick William I give the Amber Room to Peter the Great?
6.What did Peter give in return?
7.What did Catherine the Great do with the Amber Room?
8.When and how was the Amber Room supposed to have been lost?
Step 3 Reading comprehension
1.Get the students to read the text quickly and silently.
2.Ask the students the question “What does the text tell about the Amber Room?”(It tells us the strange history of the Amber Room, a cultural relic of two countries: Germany and Russia.) besides the ones given in Leading-in.
3.Get the students to read the text carefully again.
4.Ask some more questions about the Amber Room.
1)What could the King of Prussia never think of his present to the Russian?
He could never think of his present would have such a strange history.
2)Why was the gift given the name the Amber Room?
Because about seven thousand tons of amber were melt to make it.
3)What shape can the amber be made into when heated?
Any shape.
4)Is the Amber Room pure amber made with?
No. It’s also made with gold and jewels.
5)Was the Amber Room specially made to be a gift?
No, it wasn’t.
6)What was the Amber Room made for?
For the palace of Frederick I.
7)What did the Czar give the King of Prussia as a repayment?
55 of his best soldiers.
8)Where was the Amber Room first placed?
In the Czar’s winter palace in St Petersburg.
9)What did Catherine II do to the Amber Room?
She had her artists add more details to its design.
10)Is the Amber Room still in Russia?
No, it isn’t.
11)Where is it now?
No one knows. It remains a mystery.
12)What happened to the Amber Room?
It was stolen by the Nazis and is missing now.
13)When did the Amber Room disappear?
During the Second World War.
14)What were saved from the Amber Room?
The furniture and small art objects.
15)How old is St Petersburg now?
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