unit 1 Cultural relics

2nd paragraph the present to the czar: a part of winter palace in st. petersburg, a reception hall for important visitor
3rd paragraph the relocating of the amber room in catherir ⅱ times: moved into summer palace, more added to its design
4th paragraph the missing of the amber room: the two countries were at war, nazi german army stole the amber room, 27 wooden boxes were trained to a german city, nobody knew it from then on
5th paragraph the rebuilding of the amber room: a new one but the same as the old built by the two countries, for celebrating the 300th birthday of peterburg
3.scanning and analyzing the characteristics of the text.
since you have got to know the general ideas of each paragraph, can you tell me the characteristics of the passage, such as, the type of writing, the way of narrating, and the tense?
keys for reference:
this piece of passage is a narrative prose or non-fiction article written in a narrating style. it tells the history of amber room in the order of time so that we can clearly learn about what happened to it. the tense used in the text is past tense.
4.reading and understanding
next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. copy them to your notebook after class as homework.
collocations from in search of the amber room
look into…, be used to…, make the design for the room, in fact, as a gift of…, add more details to…, remove… from the search for…,belong to…, feel as hard as stone, the fancy style, be made for…, in return, one of the great wonders, art objects, look much like…, give the name, be made into any shape, be made with gold and jewels, be made to be a gift, serve as…, at war, remain a mystery, be ready for…
5. reading and transferring information
read the text again to complete the table, which lists all the numbers in the text.
number meaning
1716 frederic william gave the amber room to peter the great as a gift.
1770 catherine ⅱ had completed the adding to the amber room in this year.
1941 the nazi german army stole the amber room in this year.
the rebuilding of the amber room was completed in this year.
7000 tons the total weight of the ambers used to make the room.
55 the number of soldiers given to the king of russia in return.
600 the number of the candles lighting the amber room.
2 the two countries: german and russia.
2 in two days the amber room was removed to a german city.
100,000 the amber room was dismantled into 100,000 pieces
27 27 wooden boxes were used to contain the pieces of amber room.