Do you know what a cultural relic is?
the Forbidden City
the Great Wall
Terra-cotta Warriors
the Pyramid
the Tower of Pisa
A cultural relic can be a building, ______
doesn’t need to be _____ or ________, but
is enough to have _______ for a long time.
A part of something old has been
________ while the rest of it has been
_________.
It tells people about the ____.
which
rare valuable
survived
destroyed
preserved
past
yellow-brown
feel as hard as stone
Amber is a hard yellowish brown clear
substance. It is often used for jewels
and decorative objects.
Have you ever seen a piece of amber?
What do you know about it?
Can you imagine what a room made
of amber looks like?
How did the Amber Room become
one of the wonders of the world?
How was a new Amber Room built?
How did the Amber Room get lost?
How was the Amber Room made?
Why did the King of Prussia give
the Amber Room to the Czar of
Russia as a gift?
Para 3
Para 5
Para 4
Para 1
Para 2
Match the main ideas and the paragraphs.
It tells us the history of the _______
______, a cultural relic of two
countries _________ and ______.
Amber
Germany Russia
Read the passage quickly, then get
the main idea of the text.
Room
Read the passage carefully, get
the main idea of each paragraph,
then fill in the blanks.
An Introduction of the Amber Room.
Color
Birthplace
Style
Material
Time of
building it
yellow-brown
Prussia
fancy style
amber (several tons)
gold
jewels
10 years
The King of Prussia gave the
Amber Room to the Czar of
Russia as a gift.
In 1716, __________________ gave it to
Peter the Great for a troop of his best
soldiers. The Amber Room became
part of the Czar’s winter palace and
was used as a small ______________.
Frederick William I
reception hall
___________ moved it to a palace
outside St Petersburg, lit by six
hundred ________, its mirrors and
pictures shone like gold.
How did the Amber Room
become one of the
wonders of the world?
Catherine II
candles
The
Russians
Removed _________ and
small __________.
The Nazi
Stole the room.
Put _______ pieces into
____ boxes.
Put them on a _____ for
Königsberg.
furniture
art objects
100,000
27
train
How did the Amber Room
get lost?
Who
How
When
Why
the Russians and Germans
based on old photos of the
former one
2003
celebrate the 300th birthday
of their city
How was a new Amber
Room built?
The clue of the story
Peter the Great
Catherine II
Frederick I
Frederick
William I
Nazi
passed down
as a gift gave
p
a
sse
d
d
o
w
n
stolen by
Choose the correct number and
put them into the sentences below.
4, tons of, 27, 10, six hundred, 300th
1. In 2003, the people of St
Petersburg celebrated the _______
birthday of their city.
300th
2. The Amber Room got its name because
several ________ amber were used to
build it.
3. The Amber Room functioned as a small
reception hall for VIPs because it was
only about ____ metres long.
4. It took the country’s best artists about
_____ years to decorate the Amber
Room.
10
tons of
4
4, tons of, 27, 10, six hundred, 300th
5. After the detailed decorations of
Catherine II, there were almost
___________ candles lighting the room.
6. The Nazis put 100,000 pieces of the
Amber Room inside _____ wooden
boxes and took them away.
27
six hundred
4, tons of, 27, 10, six hundred, 300th
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