Module 2 Unit 1 Cultural relics

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Module 2 Unit 1 Cultural relics
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Warming up
Reading
Language points
Grammar
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Module 2 Unit 1 Cultural relics
Period 1 warming up
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1.Whats a cultural relics?
Something old
Something rare
A cultural relics
Something valuable
A cultural relic is something that has surveved
for a long time often a part of something old
that has remained when the rest of it has been
destroyed it tells people about the past.
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2.You work for the state office of cultural
relics.So you are looking into a relic ---a rare
Ming Dynasty vase stolen from a palace.The man
who has it insists that it belongs to his family.
What would you say to him?
1.They are not expected to bring back the
relic.They can keep it.
2.Make it clear whether the man or a member
of his family stole it.
3.How long has it been in his family and who
is the rightful owner.
4.Make clear whether it has been judged a
relic by an expert.
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3.Admire the cultural relics
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Natural or cultural relics?
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Homework
1.Find more about cultural relics 2.Memorize the
new words.
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Module 2 Unit 1 Cultural relics
Period 2 Reading
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1.Pre-reading

• 1)Think of a cultural relic you know avout.How
  would you feel if it got lost?Why?
• 2)If you fing a cultural relic ,what will you do
  with it?

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2.Reading comprehension.
Read the text on Page 1 in 10 minutes and
finish the exercises in comprehending.
Keys 1. 1)5) BDBAC
Keys 2. 1)S 2)N 3)S 4)N 5)N
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Cultural Relics on Their Way Home
Reading practice 1
Cultural relics as remnants of history, are
regarded as records of the rise and fall of a
nation. Many Chinese cultural relics, which have
been scattered around the world over the last
century, have started to return home to the
collections of Chinese cultural institutions,
enterprises and residents over the past decade.
This wave of returning artifacts has aroused
issues concerning the protection of China's
cultural heritage and the development of the
antique market in the country. "The hot art
market has contributed to the current 'tidal
wave', among other factors," said Kou Qin,
assistant general manager of the Beijing-based
China Guardian Auction Co.
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More than 30 per cent of the art works appearing
at the company's autumn auction were collected
from overseas.The coming Guardian auction
couldn't be taking place at a better time. The
Chinese art market showed signs of heating up
again a fortnight ago, when an album of
flower-and-bird paintings by Chinese artist Qi
Baishi (1863-1957) hit a controversially high
price of 16.61 million yuan (US2 million).The
price was 10 times the record price Qi's work
fetched in global art circles in 1998. "The rise
in the price of artwork in its home country, and
the forthcoming return of the country's relics
from overseas have been a natural result of the
economic boom," said Zhang Yongnian, director of
the non-governmental China Cultural Relics
Recovery Fund.
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"It occurred in Japan and the Republic of Korea
(ROK) when Japanese and Korean art pieces began
to return from overseas in the 1980s and
1990s."Like other ancient civilizations, China
has seen many cultural relics taken overseas when
the country was subjected to wars and
international bullying, said Zhang.In 1860,
invading British and French armies looted and
burned down the Old Summer Palace, which was
known then as the "garden of gardens."In 1900,
the invading British, American, German, French,
Russian, Japanese, Italian and Austrian troops
sparked looting throughout Beijing, including the
Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, temples and
mausoleums, government offices and residential
houses.
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"Items housed in Beijing from the Yuan Dynasty
(1271-1368) to date, from historical files to
national treasures, have been swept away,"
according to official documents from the Qing
Dynasty (1644-1911).Of the numerous cultural
relics that were taken out of the country in the
100 years after the First Opium War (1840-42), a
large number are now stored at major public
museums in Europe and the United States, said Lin
Shuzhong, a professor with the Nanjing Academy of
Arts.For instance, relics from the Old Summer
Palace have been showcased in the British Museum
and the Fontainebleau Art Museum in France. The
relics that have returned mostly come from
individual collectors and private museums, said
Zhang.Zhang said there are three major ways for a
country to recover cultural relics from overseas
collections to apply international conventions,
to purchase them and to get them back as
donations.
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Difficult homecoming
Reading practice 2
Some Chinese experts argue that the country
should stop buying pilfered cultural relics and
simply ask for them to be returned by applying
international conventions. China signed the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Convention on the
Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit
Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of
Cultural Property in 1970 and the International
Institute for the Unification of Private Law
Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported
Cultural Objects in 1995.Many signatory
countries, such as China, Egypt and Greece, hope
to recover cultural objects stolen from their
countries under those conventions.But
unfortunately the countries with the most
valuable cultural relics from other countries,
especially developing ones, including the United
States and Britain, have not signed the
twoconventions. International institutions have
made several major donations and returned Chinese
cultural relics to their home since 1949.
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In 1951 and 1954 the Leningrad University, the
Lenin Library and the Soviet Union Academy of
Sciences opened their collections and returned 64
volumes of the 600-year-old Yongle Encyclopedia
to the Chinese Government.China has also bought
cultural relics back, said Zhang.Statistics
provided by the Chinese Society of Cultural
Relics show that more than 3,000 cultural relics
came from overseas in 2002 and were sold in
China, but no statistics were given on whether
they stayed in the country.Among them a large
part were brought to the Chinese market by
auctioneers, according to society."The shortage
in relic supplies spurred us on to search
overseas," said Kou Qin.Kou said that in 1993 and
1994, the first two or three auction houses
founded in Beijing sold art works which were
mainly confiscated from households during the
"cultural revolution" (1966-76). The owners of
the relics couldn't be found after the turbulent
10-year period.
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Some senior collectors also had pieces in
their collection auctioned off so that they would
be able to move out of their shabby quarters into
larger and better houses or apartments.In 1996,
the number of auction houses in Beijing was more
than 20. However, art collectors have
declined to sell more pieces after they had moved
into larger houses. The additional cash they
earned from auctions had found no ideal channel
for investments. Meanwhile, State-owned antique
shops, a major supplier for auctioneers, could
provide less and less real relics. As the
supply problems became apparent, the auctioneers
have turned to parts of the country they had
neglected, such as East China's Jiangsu and
Zhejiang provinces and Northwest China's Shaanxi
Province, and also to overseas.
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Reclaiming cultural relics from overseas
practice 3
Cultural relic experts and NGOs have set the
wheels in motion to begin reclaiming China's
national treasures from abroad, said an article
in Beijing Review. The following are excerpts
from the articleOn April 11, the China Cultural
Relics Recovery Programme, funded by the China
Foundation for the Development of Folklore
Culture announced a large-scale programme to
reclaim Chinese cultural relics scattered around
the world. Xie Chensheng, a senior cultural
heritage preservation expert, said, "Cultural
wealth can be shared by the whole world, but not
the ownership, just like the property rights on
software. Ownership of lost Chinese cultural
treasures should lie with the Chinese people."
Although some national treasures have been
recovered since the founding of the People's
Republic of China in 1949, the large-scale
programme recently announced by the China
Cultural Relics Recovery Programme is the first
of its kind in China.
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According to Zhang Yongnian, head of the
programme, he and his colleagues will focus on
items that were stolen, excavated or looted and
trafficked abroad between 1840 and 1949.
Statistics from the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization suggests
about 1.67 million Chinese cultural relics are
held by more than 200 foreign museums in 47
countries. Some estimates put the number of
Chinese cultural relics of that kind collected by
individuals at 10 times that figure. "It's
time to reclaim our cultural relics from abroad,"
said Wang Weiming, director-general of the
programme. "If we do not put forward our
reclaiming request, I'm afraid there will be no
hope for many cultural relics to return to
China."But he is keen to stress this will not be
an indiscriminate witch-hunt. He said "We don't
mean to retrieve all the Chinese relics collected
in foreign museums. Our next step is to compile a
list of relics that need to be returned and there
is much research work to do."
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Homework
1.Read more about cultural relics 2.Preview the
language points.
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Module 2 Unit 1 Cultural relics
Period 3 Language points
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1.survive
2.remain
3.State /nation/country
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4.Look into
5.rare
6.belong to
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7gift gifted
8.heat hot
9.design
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10.fancy
12.be popular in /among sb.
11.jewel jewelry / jewellery
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13.work worksfactory
14.in return (for sth)
15.receive receiver reception
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16.wonder vt. n.(U,C)
17.be at war
18.remove move
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19.wooden adj. woollen.
20.doubt n.(U) vt.
21.while n.(C) (??) conj.1)
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22.trial
23.evidence n. evident adj.
24. prove
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Homework
1.revise the language points 2.WB exercises.
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Module 2 Unit 1 Cultural relics
Period 4 Grammar
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who /that
1.The boy __________is standing over there is
my brother.
(whom/that)
2. The woman __________you saw in my room is my
mother.
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(which/that)
3?The letter __________I received yesterday is
from my family.
whose
4?This is Tom ______mother is our English teacher.
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1. I still remember the day ____ I first came to
   Beijing.

when
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place last year. ( ???????where?)
3. That is the reason (____) he dislikes me.
why
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health. 2) The sun heats the earth, which is very
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2)The weather turned out to be very good, ___ was
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Practice
1. The beautiful card is from my friend _____
lives in Australia. ?????????????????????
who
2. I borrowed the bike from Tom ____ father is a
teacher. ?????????????????
whose
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3.This is the earth _____ we live. ???????????(
the earth???????)
where
4. We live on the earth, ____ is much bigger than
the moon. (????????) ???????,????????? (the
earth???????)
which
5. I still remember the day ____ Mary made a
chocolate cake . ??????????????????(the
day???????)
when
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Homework
1.Revise the grammar item 2.Do WB exercises.
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