Unit 1 Cultural relics
27 27 wooden boxes were used to contain the pieces of amber room.
300th the newly rebuilt amber room was ready for the 300th birthday of st peterburg city
6.reading and learning
read the text and learn more about the following proper nouns. you can surf on the website after class:
names of people names of places
frederick ⅰ prussia
frederick william ⅰ st.peterburg
peter the great konigsberg
catherine ⅱ winter palace
summer palace
ⅳ closing down
closing down by doing exercises
to end the lesson you are to do the comprehending exercises no. 1 and no. 2.
closing down by having a discussion
a. can you imagine the fate of the amber room? what is it?
b. do you think if it is worthwhile to reproduce the amber room? why?
keys for reference:
a. i have no idea about the fate of the amber room. because anything can happen to it. maybe it was destroyed at war in the fighting fire. you see, ambers can be melted easily. maybe it was kept secretly by somebody who had died without telling about it to anyone else. so maybe it is lying somewhere quietly.
b. i think it is worthwhile to reproduce the amber room. because it represents the culture and a period of history in st. petersburg. it is a trace and feature surviving from a past age and serving to remind people of a lost time.
closing down by retelling the story of the amber room
well, all of us have learned the history of the amber room. let’s recall some key words and expressions on the board. you are to retell the story of the amber room:
colour style shape
owner present move to winter palace
add to more details remove to pieces
put on trains remain a mystery 300th birthday
period 2: a lesson plan for learning about language
(the restrictive and non-restrictive attributive clause)
aims:
to learn about the restrictive and non-restrictive attributive clause
to discover some useful words and expressions
to discover some useful structures
procedures:
i. warming up
warming up by discovering useful words and expressions
please turn to page 3. do exercises 1, 2, 3 and 4 first. please check your answers against your classmates’.
warming up by explaining
now, class, since you’ve read the passage, could you explain to me how to use the phrase “belong to”? the word “to” here is a preposition, indicating the possession, and is always followed by nouns or pronoun. look at ex 3. the preposition “at” indicates a state, condition or continuous activity. so we can replace them or express them by using a present-continuous tense.