Unit 1 Cultural relics
•the room served as a small reception hall for important visitors.
•the man who found the relics insist that it belongs to his family.
•the room was completed the way she wanted it .
•it was ready for the people of st. petersburg to celebrate the 300th birthday of their city.
•after that, what really happened to the amber room remains a mystery.
•in a trial, a judge must decide which eyewitnesses to believe and which not to believe.
•is it something that more than one person believes?
•a fact is anything that can be proved.
•an opinion is what someone believes is true but has not been proved.
part two: teaching resources (教學(xué)資源)
section 1: a text structure analysis of in search of the amber room
i. type of writing and summary of the idea
type of writing this is a piece of narrative writing.
main idea of the passage the history of the amber room
general idea of 1st para the simple description of the amber room
general idea of 2nd para the present sent to the czar
general idea of 3rd para the detail adding and relocating of the amber room
general idea of 4th para the stolen of the amber room in world war ⅱ
general idea of 5th para the rebuilding of the amber room
ii. a tree diagram
the amber room: the best and biggest work of country’s best prussian artists
para.1
section 2: background information on culture relics
i. what is a culture relic? 何謂 “文化遺產(chǎn)”?
cultural relics are physical reminders of what different peoples valued in the past and continue to value now. without these relics, we could not cherish cultural traditions as much or appreciate the lives of the people who practiced those traditions. although we may not often consider it, cultural relics are not only the possession of one culture. in a larger sense, it can be said that they belong to all peoples. for these reasons, this unit describes cultural relics not from china but other places. looking at it from another angle, it can also be said that cultural relics preserves some aspect of cultural heritage and each relic, regardless of whether the same hands created many examples of it, is still a unique cultural expression and contribution.
ii. the cultural relics of china in the world heritage site list《世界文化遺產(chǎn)名錄》中的30處中國文遺產(chǎn)
本單元的主題是“文化遺產(chǎn)”，學(xué)生很可能已經(jīng)親身接觸過當(dāng)?shù)氐奈幕z產(chǎn)，或是能過電視、報(bào)紙等媒體對此有了一定的了解，因此，在課前教師可讓學(xué)生列舉國內(nèi)外著名的文化遺產(chǎn)，然后對“文化遺產(chǎn)”給出定義、分類或劃分標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。到XX年底，我國已有30處文物古跡和自然景觀被聯(lián)合國科教文組織世界遺產(chǎn)委員會列入《世界遺產(chǎn)名錄》，以下是這些文化遺產(chǎn)的名稱、性質(zhì)和列人《世界遺產(chǎn)名錄》的年份：