高中英语必修二导学案全册精品

The First Period

Warming up & Reading

【单元导航】

The Amber Room

The history of the Amber Room dates back to（追溯到）the very beginning of the 18th century, when Andreas Schluter, the chief architect of the Prussian

royal court, had the idea of using amber, a material never before used

for interior decoration（室内装修）, to complete one of the rooms of

the Great Royal Palace in Berlin during the reconstruction under

Frederick Ⅰ. The works started in 1701 and continued until 1713

with the help of the best German, Swedish, and Dutch amber masters,

when the old king died, and the new Prussian King –Frederick

Willelm Ⅰ—came into power(掌权).

Period 1Warming Up and Reading

Step 1 Ask and answer

This period we are going to read about IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM.. Before our reading, please answer the following questions:

1) Do you know what a cultural relic is? Can you give some examples?

____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 2) Please use a few words to describe what you think cultural relics are.

rare, _______________________________________________________________________ 3)To whom do cultural relics belong?

____________________________________________________________________________ Step 2 Please complete the description about cultural relics.

A cultural relic is something that survived for ________, often a part of something old that has remained when the rest of it has been destroyed or ________; it tells people about the _____. Task 3 Discuss: If you find a cultural relic, what will you do with it?

____________________________________________________________________________ Step 3 Skimming

Task 1 About amber

Have you ever seen a piece of amber? If so, what does it look like?

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Task 2 According to the title In Search of The Amber Room, please answer the following

questions:

(1) Why is it called the Amber Room?

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(2) What happened to the Amber Room?

___________________________________________________________________________

Task 3 Skim the text and find out: The Amber Room was given by ____________ to

____________, a great gift from the King of Prussia to the Russian people

Step 4 Careful reading

Task 1 Read the text carefully and join the correct parts of the sentences together.

A. Information about the Amber Room:

1) FrederickⅠ A. stole the Amber Room.

2) Frederick William Ⅰ B. sent a troop of his best soldiers to the King of

Prussia.

3) Peter the Great C. had the Amber Room made.

4) CatherineⅡ D. had it moved outside St Petersburg.

5) The Nazi army E. gave it to the Czar as a gift.

6) The Russians and Germans F. built a new Amber Room after studying pictures

of the old one.

B. The main idea of each paragraph::

1st paragraph 1. How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of the

world?

2nd paragraph 2. How was a new Amber Room built?

3rd paragraph 3. How did the Amber Room get lost?

4th paragraph 4. How was the Amber Room made?

5th paragraph 5. Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of

Russia as a gift?

Task 2 Detailed reading

1) Go through each paragraph and answer the following questions:

Para.1 Why was the Amber Room given such a name?

_____________________________________________________________________________ Para.2 What did Czar give the King of Prussia in return?

_____________________________________________________________________________ Para.3 What did Catherine II do with the Amber Room?

_____________________________________________________________________________ Para.4 When and how was the Amber Room supposed to have been lost?

_____________________________________________________________________________ Para.5 How is the new room made?

_____________________________________________________________________________ 2) Can you raise more questions about the Amber Room?

______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________

Task 3 Multiple choice

Please read the text and choose the best answer for each blank

1) The King of Prussia who gave the Amber Room as a gift to Russia was _____

A Frederick I

B Frederick William I

C Peter the Great

D Catherine II

2) The King of Prussia gave the Amber Room to Russia because _____

A he wanted to marry Catherine II

B he was kind

C he needed better soldiers

D he wanted to make friends

3) The Amber Room was stolen by _____

A Russian soldiers

B German soldiers

C people in Konigsberg

D people in St Petersburg

4) In 1941, the city of Konigsberg was in _____

A Germany

B Russia

C Sweden

D France

5) The Russians didn't hide the Amber Room because _____

A they were at war

B they couldn't find a place

C the German soldiers arrived too soon

D no train could take it away

Step 5 Retelling

Amber Room, the best and biggest work of amber art ever made, was first built for _____

_____ _____ Frederick I. In 1716, Frederick William I gave it to Peter the Great _____ _____ _____ of friendship and _____ _____ he got the Czar’s 55 best soldiers. Thus the Amber Room became part of the Czar’s _____ _______in St. Petersburg and served as a small _______

______for important visitors. Later, Catherine II told her artists to _____ more details _____ its design. Unfortunately, in September, 1941, When Russia and Nazi Germany were _____ ____, the Amber Room was secretly _____ by the Nazis. 100,000 pieces of the room were put inside twenty-seven wooden boxes. _____ _____ _____ _____ that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg. After that, the Amber Room _____ _____. While the search for the old room continues, the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room which was ready for the people of St. Petersburg to celebrate the 300th birthday of their city in the spring of 2003.

Step 6 Homework

Tick out sentences that you think are difficult for you.

【学习反思】

呃，我还要努力！

Keys:

Step 1 Ask and answer

2）building, object or item; valuable, old, sth. used by our ancestors or a place where a famous person used to live, expensive, etc

3）In a larger sense, it can be said that all the cultural relics belong to all peoples and whole societies, not a certain individual.

Step 2 Please complete the description about cultural relics.

1. a long time

2. lost

3. past or history

Step 3 Skimming

Task 2 According to the title In Search of The Amber Room, please answer the following questions:

(1) Because the room is made of amber. (2) It was missing.

Task 3 Frederick William I; Peter the Great.

Step 4 Careful reading

Task 1 A) CEBDAF B) 45132

Task 2

Para.1 It was given the name because almost seven thousand tons of ambers were used to make it

Para.2 He sent him a troop of his best soldiers.

Para.3 Catherine II had the Amber Room moved to the palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers. She also had more details added to the Amber Room. Para.4 In 1941, those two countries were at war. German army stole it.

Para.5 By studying old photos of the former Amber Room.

Task 3 BDBAC

Step 5 the palace of 2) as a gift 3) in return 4) summer palace 5) reception hall 6) add…to 7) at war 8) stolen 9) There is no doubt 10) was missing

Period 2 Language points

Step 1 Complete the following sentences.

1) The Russians and Germans have built ______ new Amber Room at _____ summer palace.

2) _____ September, the Nazi German army was near St Petersburg.

3) This was a time when the two countries wre ____ war.

4) After that, ________ happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery.

5) Later, Catherine Ⅱhad the Amber Room moved _____ the palace where ___spent her summers.

6) The king could never have imagined _____ his gift ____ the Russian people would have such ____ strange history. _____ gift was _____ Amber Room.

7) ________ amber feels as stone, it easily melts when heated.

8) _____ fact, the room was not made to be a gift.

9) The Amber Room was made for the palace of Frederick Ⅰ, _____ he didn’t want to keep it.

10) 100,000 pieces of the room were put inside the boxes _____ put on a train for Germany.

Step 2 Useful expressions

Task 1 Please go through the text and look for the following expressions. Then put them into Chinese or English.

1. fancy style

2. belong to

3. in return

4. at war

5. less than two days

6. remove the furniture

7. 被认为是世界的一大奇迹之一________________________________________________

8. 被用作接待重要来宾的小型会客室_____________________________________________

Task 2 Let’s learn some useful expressions!

1) In search of the Amber room

in search of 寻找，搜查

例：The policemen were in search of the missing boy in the woods.

警察在树林里寻找那个失踪的小男孩。

【思维拓展】search vt&vi. 搜寻，搜查

search out 搜出，找到search for 搜寻，寻找search sb 搜某人的身

翻译：救援队伍正搜寻着地震后的生还者。

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2) Frederick William 1, the King of Prussia, could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such an amazing history.

普鲁士国王威廉一世绝不可能想到他送给俄罗斯人民的厚礼会有这样一段离奇的历史。

◆could have done 表示对过去事情的推测，常用于否定句或疑问句中，表示“不可能或怀疑做了某事”例: 我姐姐昨天下午在大戏院遇到鲍德，所以他不可能听了你的讲座。

My sister met Bob at the grand theater yesterday afternoon, so he _______________(attend) your lecture. 【思维拓展】could have done 可能做过某事/ 本可以做却没有做……（懊悔）

must have done 肯定做过……（对过去肯定的推测）

should have done 本来应该做…… shouldn’t have done 本不该如此……

用所给动词的适当形式填空：

1）You look tired. You _____________________ (stay up) last night.

2) I _____________ (win) the match, but I broke my leg.

3) The ground is wet. It _______________ (rain) just now.

4) You ______________ (see) Professor Li in the office. He has gone to the library.

◆amazing adj. 惊人的，神奇的，很棒

例：The film is amazing! 这电影太精彩了！

3) It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, which took the country’s best artists about ten years to make. (Page 1, Line 5)

它是一件______________的珍宝，是国家最优秀的艺术家们花费了十年的时间才完成的。

◆decorated with gold and jewels 过去分词短语作后置定语，相当于which was decorated with gold and jewels

be decorated with 用……装饰

翻译：人们通常用彩灯来装饰圣诞树。

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◆which took the country’s best…是定语从句，修饰先行词treasure.

完成句子：

这是一座由成吨巨石建成的桥，是由成千上万的工匠完成的。

This is a bridge _________ tons of huge stones, ________________ thousands of workers.

4）Later, Catherine Ⅱhad the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers. (Page 2, Line 14)

have sth done 让某人做某事；（某人）遭遇某事

完成句子：

a. 我明天让人把电视机修一下。I’ll __________________________________ tomorrow.

b. 他的胳膊在工作中受伤了。He ______ his arm __________ at work.

5) In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted. (Page 2, Line 15)

1770年间这件琥珀屋按照她的要求完成了。

she wanted 是一个定语从句，跟在先行词the way的后面，还可以说the way that she wanted 或者the way in which she wanted。

翻译：我不喜欢你对你妈妈说话的方式。

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6) There is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea.

毫无疑问，这些箱子后来被装上火车运往哥尼斯堡，当时德国在波罗的海的一个城市。

There is no doubt that…毫无疑问……（写作常用句型）

例：毫无疑问，台湾是中国领土的一部分。There is no doubt that Taiwan is a part of China.

Can you make another example?

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7) After that, what happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery. (Para. 4)

自打那以后，琥珀屋就成了一个谜。

remain是系动词，后接名词，形容词，分词，介词短语等，表示“一直保持”、“仍然（处于某种状态）”、“继续存在”、“依然”。

例：This place remains cool all summer. 这个地方整个夏天都凉爽。

She remained standing despite the rain. 她始终在雨中站立。

【思维拓展】remain 作为不及物动词，表示保持, 逗留, 剩余, 残存。remaining adj.剩下的猜一猜：下列句子中的remain应该作何解释？

After the fire, very little remained of my house.__________________________________

Much work remained to be done.____________________________________________

I’ll remain to see the end of the game.________________________________________

He remained silent after class._____________________________________________

The true author of the book remains unknown．________________________________

3. Summary

Please write down the useful expressions you’ve learnt, and make up sentences with two of them: