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Unit 1 cultural relics
Warming up
Look at the three groups of pictures and discuss
these questions.
1. Do you know these places?
2. If you know, what do you know about the places?
Group 1
The Pyramids
in Egypt
Group 2
The Great Wall/China
Group 3
Stonehenge /
Britain Salisbury
plain
Warming up
Do you know what a cultural relic is?
Cultural relic
it is any object, building or item that
was made sometime in the past. It may
be many thousands of years old or it
may be a few hundred.
it may or may not valuable
it tells us something of the way people
lived at the time it was made.
Look at the pictures below and discuss
what they are and whether they are
cultural relics or not.
Ming Dynasty vase
ivory dragon boat
The Pyramids in Egypt
Amber
rare/precious
beautiful
amber
Pre-reading
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.