Unit 1 Cultural relics 课时二 Reading（2）（课件）-2020-2021学年上学期高一英语同步精品课堂（人教版必修2）(共70张PPT)

Reading Do you know what a cultural relic is? Cultural relics are traces or features surviving from a past age and serving to remind people of them. Warming up Ming Dynasty vase Look at the pictures below and discuss what they are and whether they are cultural relics or not. The Taj Mahal (In India) ivory dragon boat Mogao Caves (In China) The Pyramids in Egypt The Sydney Opera (in Australia) Cooperative learning 1. Do you know these famous places? If you know, what do you know about them? 2. Which one do you like to visit? Why? 3. What makes a city great and famous? (a long history; cultural relics; many great people; important events taking place there) 1. Have you ever seen a piece of amber? What do you know about it? 2. Look at the title and the picture of the reading passage and predict what it is about. Then skim it quickly and see if you were right. Pre-reading In Search of the Amber Room (Prussia) The Amber Room was made of almost seven thousand tons of amber. It