Amber

1. Amber

2. What else do you know about “amber”? beautiful yellow-brown color feels as hard as stone easily melts when heated • How did amber come into being?

3. resin 松脂 amber pine tree 40—60 million years

4. What else do you know about “amber”? • What do people use amber for?

5. decoration Use historical study medicine

6. Can you imagine a room made of amber?

7. The wall of the Amber Room

8. Adjectives to describe the Amber Room • precious • special/ unique • beautiful • luxurious（奢侈的）/ expensive • glorious（辉煌的）

9. Suppose the Amber Room got lost. How would people do?

10. In search of the Amber Room Reading—by Chenjie

11. What do you think the text may talk about according to the title? Pre-reading Prediction

12. Fast-reading Page 2, Exercise 2 How was the Amber Room made? Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to Czar of Russia as a gift. How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of the world? How did the Amber Room get lost? How was a new Amber Room built?

13. Fast-reading Main Idea It tells us the design, history, the ________and the _________of the Amber Room, a cultural relic of two countries: _________ and ________. rebuilding missing Germany Russia

14. Para 1 The amazing Amber Room Careful Reading yellow-brown Colour Prussia Birthplace in the fancy style popular in those days Design several tons of amber; Material gold andjewels Time to complete it It took the country’s best artists about ten years to make it.

15. Careful Reading Page 2, Exercise 1 1. FrederickⅠ 2. Frederick WilliamⅠ 3. Peter the Great 4. CatherineⅡ 5. The Nazi army 6. The Russians and Germans A. stole the Amber Room B. sent a troop of his best soldiers to the King of Prussia C. had the Amber Room made D. had it moved outside St Petersburg. E. gave it to Peter the Great as a gift. F. built a new Amber Room after studying the former pictures

16. Careful Reading Underline the "Years" What happened in these four years? 1716 1770 1941 2003

17. Careful Reading Years & Events Frederick William I gave the Amber Room to Peter the Great, as a gift of friendship. The Amber Room was completed the way Catherine Ⅱ wanted.

18. Careful Reading In September, 1941, the Nazi German and Russia were at war, the Nazi German army stole the Amber Room. A new Amber Room was built at the summer palace.

19. Careful Reading Paragraph 4the missing of the Amber Room • 1. What happened to Russian and Nazi German in 1941? • 2. Can the Russians took the whole Amber Room with them? • 4. How did the Nazi stole the Amber Room? • 5. What happened to the Amber Room after that? At war. No, they can’t take apart Konigsberg put the pieces into wooden boxes A mystery

20. Fiction article

21. Careful Reading Retelling Nazi Peter the Great Czar FrederickⅠ Frederick WilliamⅠ CatherineⅡ

22. The Amber Room was rebuilt in 2003.

23. Hi dude, I don’t think so. It is worth rebuilding Yuan Ming Yuan.

24. Assignment • 1. Write a five-sentences composition about our debate topic—Is it worth rebuilding Yuan Ming Yuan? • 2. Underline the attributive clauses(定语从句)in the text. • 3. Finish Page 3，exercise 1,2

25. Thank You!

26. The Amber Room was a g_____ given by the King of Prussia. Since it is made of amber ,it easily melts whenh _______.The d ______of the room was in the f________style. When the room was given to the Czar, it was used as r________hall. Russian and Germany were _____ _____in 1941,the Russians were only able to r________ the f_______and small art objects from the Amber Room . Sadly, the Amber Room which was one of the great w_______ of the world is missing now . In 2003, the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room according to the f______ pictures. ift esign eated ancy eception at war emove urniture onders ormer