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Stories from History

Unit 16. Stories from History. Lead-in. Do you know any city that disappeared within a minute?. Pompeii. Pompeii. 1. Do you like reading stories?. 2. Can you name some kinds of stories?. Fairy tales. Historical stories. Myth. Love stories. Adventure stories. stories.

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Stories from History

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  1. Unit 16 Stories from History

  2. Lead-in Do you know any city that disappeared within a minute? Pompeii

  3. Pompeii

  4. 1. Do you like reading stories? 2. Can you name some kinds of stories? ks5u精品课件

  5. Fairy tales Historical stories Myth Love stories Adventure stories stories Fantasies Biograp- hies Science fiction Detective stories

  6. Let’s enjoy some stories and identify the kinds of stories in the pictures. ks5u精品课件

  7. Fantasy Harry Potter

  8. Fairy tale The Snow White

  9. Detective story Sherlock Holmes

  10. Journey to the west Myth

  11. Biography

  12. Romance of Three Kingdoms Historical story

  13. Volcanic eruption

  14. Mount Vesuvius 维苏威火山 Pompeii

  15. Pompeii: The city that became a time capsule

  16. Time capsule a container used to store for children a selection of objects thought to be representative of life at a particular time. Time capsules are interesting to people of all ages.

  17. you may send emails to yourself, and decide the mails to be received 1 or 3 or 5 or 10 or even 20 years later! the mails will be kept and sent by yahoo.

  18. The main idea of the passage: It is about a city named Pompeii , which was buried by a volcanic eruption and discovered again by some scientists 1,600 years later.

  19. Find out some information about the following people. Pliny: a Roman writer wrote about the eruption of Vesuvius Scientists: found the lost city People in Pompeii: gathered together for protection

  20. One person, sitting alone, looks like he is praying. Another man, lying on his side, looks as if he is trying to get up.

  21. Reading: write down the things in connection with the following numbers: August, 24th, 79 AD: The eruption had occurred and destroyed the whole city.

  22. 1,600: More than 1,600 years later, some scientists found the lost towns that had been buried under the ashes.

  23. 1748: By 1748, scientists had found an awesome historical site.

  24. 250: More than 250 years after scientists found the city, thousands of tourists and hundreds of scientists visit Pompeii every year to learn more about the ancient world.

  25. Answer the questions in exercise2 1. Why does the article describe Pompeii as a “time capsule” ? Because it preserves a frozen moment in history.

  26. 2. What had Pompeii been like before the eruption? Before the eruption occurred, it had been a booming roman city with temples, markets, restaurants, and theaters.

  27. 3. What can you see If you walk in the streets of Pompeii today? Now as you walk along the streets of the city, you can admire the ancient architecture, statues, decorated walls and authentic objects characteristic of the time.

  28. Thank you

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