Part 1 Teaching Design
第一部分 教学设计
Period 1 A sample lesson plan for Reading
(IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM)
Introduction
In this period, after the warming up, students will first be guided to look and say about the Amber Room. Then they will be helped to read a narration entitled IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM. It’s a story about a amber room built and lost, which has been a puzzle for all.
Examples of “Warming Up” designs are presented in this book for teachers’ reference. Computer and overhead projector may be used to aid the teaching and learning.
Objectives
To help students learn to ask for opinions and give opinions
To help students learn to read a text about cultural relics
To help students better understand “cultural relics”
To help students learn to use some important words and expressions
To help students identify examples of The Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Attributive Clause
Focus
Words
survive, design, fancy, belong, remove, explode, sink
Expressions
in search of, belong to, in return, at war, less than, take apart, think highly of
Patterns
This gift was the Amber Room, which was given this name because…
I could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such an amazing history.
The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days.
In 1770, the room was completed the way she wanted it.
Aids
Multimedia facilities, tape-recorder, photos, diagrams
1. Warming up
⑴ Warming up by defining
Good morning, class. This period we are going to take Unit 1, Book 2. The topic is Cultural relics. But first, I’d like to ask:
What kind of old things can be called cultural relics?
Are all the old things cultural relics?
What is the definition and classification of cultural relics?
To whom do cultural relics belong?
A. Cultural relics are physical remainders of what different peoples valued in the past and continue to value now. It can also be said that cultural relics are more than works of art, they are symbols of history and the people who lived in the past.
B. No, not all the old objects are cultural relics.
C. Each kind of relics preserves some aspect of cultural heritage and each relic is still a unique cultural expression and contributions.
D. In a larger sense, it can be said that all the cultural relics belong to all peoples and whole societies, not a certain individual.
⑵Warming up by presenting
Hi, everyone. Let’s look at the screen. I’ll present you some pictures. They are all about cultural relics. Some of them are cultural sites. Some of them are natural sites. Only an international professional organization from UN has the right to decide on and name them.
Who’d like to tell the class something about them?
Cultural sites:
The Great wall; The Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and
Shenyang; The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors; The
Mogao Cave.
Natural sites:
The Jiu Zhai Gou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area; The Huang Long Scenic and
Histioric Interest Area. The following are cultural and natural sites: Mount Taishan; Mount
Huangshan; Mount WuYi.
⑶Warming up by discussing
Now, boys and girls, I met a “moral dilemma”. That means I must make a choice between the interests of the family and the interests of the society. Things are like this: My old granny happened to find an ancient vase under a tree in the earth of our garden. It’s so beautiful and special. Now, my family fell into a moral dilemma. Can you help us to make a decision?
A: What should we do?
B: Can we keep it for ourselves or report it to the government?
C: Have you come across such a situation — to make a difficult choice?
2. Pre-reading by looking and saying
Look at the photos here. What do you know about the substance of “amber”? What do know
about the cultural relics “the Amber Room”?
“amber” is a semi-precious stone used in jewelry and art world. Amber is really the fossil form of resin from trees. It has got its shape after a process that has taken millions of years to complete. Trees in very ancient forests produced this resin, which slowly dropped from trees and was buried. Trees use resin to protect themselves from disease and harm caused by insects and fungi.
The Amber Room is a room built by lots of ambers. It was a gift given to Peter the Great, the King of Russia, by the King of Prussia, Frederick William I. It was given the name because almost thousand tons of natural ambers were used to make it. But during the second world war in 1941, the Nazi German army secretly stole the Amber Room and sent boxes of the Amber Room on a train to a German city. After that, what really happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery.
3. Reading aloud to the recording
Now please listen and read aloud to the recording of the text In Search of the Amber Room on page 1. Pay attention to the pronunciation of each word and the pauses within each sentence. I will play the tape twice and you shall read aloud twice, too.
4. Skimming and identifying the general idea of each paragraph
This passage on page 1 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. Now please skim the text to get the key words and general idea of each paragraph.
1st paragraph
the introduction about the Amber Room: design, colour, shape, material
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 Catherine 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 300 the birthday of Petersburg
5. Making a tree diagram
Go on to make a tree diagram of the text and try to retell the text in your own words with its help.
The Amber Room: the best and biggest work of country’s best Prussian artists
Para.1
6. Reading and underlining
Next you are to read the text 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
make the design for the room, add more details to…, remove… from the search for…,belong to…, feel as hard as stone, the fancy style, 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
7. 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 in this year.
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.
2003
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 lit in the Amber Room.
2
The two countries: German and Russia.
2
In two days the Amber Room was removed and trained away.
100,000
The Amber Room was dismantled into 100,000 pieces
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 Petersburg city
8. 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. Petersburg
Peter the Great
Konigsberg
Catherine Ⅱ
Winter Palace
Summer Palace
9. Having a discussion
Can you imagine the fate of the Amber Room? What is it?
Do you think if it is worthwhile to reproduce the Amber Room? Why?
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.
10. Closing down by doing a quiz
Fill in the blank with one word to complete the summary of the text.
The Amber Room was made 1_____ 1701 onwards in order to be installed at Charlottenburg Palace, 2 _____of Friedrich I, the first king of Prussia, at the urging of his second wife, Sophie Charlotte. The concept of the room and its 3 _____was by Andreas Schlüter. It 4 _____crafted by Gottfried Wolfram, master craftsman to the Danish court of King Frederick IV of Denmark, 5 _____help from the amber masters Ernst Schacht and Gottfried Turau from Danzig.
It did not, however, 6 _____at Charlottenburg for long. Peter the Great admired it on a visit and in 1716, Friedrich Wilhelm I, the first king's son, presented 7 _____to him, and with that act cemented a Prussian-Russian alliance 8 _____Sweden.
In 1755 Tsarina Elizabeth of Russia 9 _____it transferred and installed, first in the Winter Palace, and then 10 _____the Catherine Palace. From Berlin, Frederick II the Great sent her more Baltic amber, in 11 _____to fill out the originals in the new design by the tsarina's Italian court architect, Bartolomeo Rastrelli.
The Amber Room represented a joint effort 12 _____German and Russian craftsmen. After several other 18th-century renovations, it 13 _____more than 55 square meters and contained over six tones of 14 _____. It took over ten years to construct.
（Keys: 1from 2 home 3 design 4 was 5 with 6 remain 7 it 8 against 9 had 10 in 11 order 12 of 13 covered 14 amber）
Work out the word and structure questions.
1. Reports have occasionally surfaced _____ that components of the Amber Room survived the war.
A: stated B: stating C: to state D: state
2. There have been numerous conflicting reports and theories, among them _____ the Amber Room was destroyed by bombing, hidden in a now-lost coal mine.
A: which B: that C: where D: when
3. Many different individuals and groups have done extensive searches for it at various times since the war, _____ little result.
A: to B: with C: by D: on
4. However, in 1997 one Italian stone mosaic _____ was part of a set of four _____ had decorated the Amber Room did turn up in western Germany.
A: that, which B: which, which C: it, that D: that, it
(Keys: 1B, 2 B, 3 B, 4 A)
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