Unit16 lesson1

1. Unit16 lesson1

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

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

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

5. Fantasy Harry Potter

6. Fairy tale The Snow White

7. Detective story Sherlock Holmes

8. Record of a Journey to the west Myth

9. Biography

10. Romance of Three Kingdoms Historical story

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

12. 全部释义>> Pompeii 庞培 维苏威火山 Herculaneum 赫库兰尼姆; Stabiae 斯塔比伊 Neapolis (那不勒斯) 那波利 Bay of naples 那不勒斯海湾 Misenum 米赛努

13. Watch a short video and judge the relationship between Pompeii and Vesuvius

14. Volcanic eruption

15. Mount Vesuvius Pompeii To 8

16. Key words: volcanic eruption, buried, event, disappear, disaster, preserved, destroy, discover, scientist Use the key words to make a guess: What happened to the city?

17. : It is about a city named Pompeii , which was buried by a volcanic eruption and discovered again by some scientists 1,600 years later.

18. Scanning 1.Find out the information about Pompeii. • Where did the eruption happen: • When did the eruption happen: • Who wrote about the eruption: • When did the archaeologists begin to discover the buried city: • How long is it from the eruption to now: It was of Mount Vesuvius in Italy. On August 24th, 79 AD. A Roman writer called Pliny. In 1748. Nearly 2,000 years.

19. 2.Match the information together with the paragraphs. 1.What the eruption brought to. 2. People imagine what the people were doing when they faced the disaster. 3. What Pompeii looked like before the volcanic eruption. 4. The City of Pompeii had been living on nearly 2,000 years. 5. Scientists discovered the city of Pompeii. 6. The background knowledge of the volcanic eruption. Para 2 Para 5 Para 4 Para 6 Para 3 Para 1

20. Answer the questions 1. What had Pompeii been like before the eruption? Para4 2.Howdid the impressions of human bodies appear? Para5

21. 1. What had Pompeii been like before the eruption?

22. original street of the city

25. 1. 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.

26. After the eruption 2.How did the impressions of human bodies appear?

27. People gathered together for protection in their last hours of life.

28. One person, sitting alone, looks like he is praying.

29. The man was lying, looks as if he is trying to get up.

30. Imagine what they were doing. Getting up/ struggling

31. escaping

32. sleeping

33. 2.How did the impressions of human bodies appear? The bodies of people who had died in Pompeii left impressions in the ash that showed their exact shapes.

34. Pompeii: The city that became a time capsule

35. Skimming Find out “time capsule” in the text. And find out the reason.

36. Time capsule preserves a frozen moment in history. (On the 1st-2nd line in paragraph 4)

37. Second Reading: write down the things in connection with the following numbers: August, 24th, 79 AD: 1,600: 1748: 250:

38. August, 24th, 79 AD: The eruption had occurred and destroyed the whole city. 1,600: More than 1,600 years later, some scientists found the lost towns that had been buried under the ashes.

39. 1748: By 1748, scientists had found an awesome historical site. 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.

40. Sum up: fill in the blanks preserving, dig out, disaster, volcanic, monumentoccurred, capture, impression, ancient world, shapes, lives on, loss, witnessed, disaster, buried witnessed Pliny was a Roman writer who had _________ and wrote about a _________ eruption which ________ on August 24th,79AD and it was of Mt. Vesuvius. The tragedy had left a deep __________ on Pliny whose uncle died in the event. The whole towns and villages were _________ by the ashes of Mt Vesuvius. By 1748, scientists started to ________the ancient city Pompeii. It is like a “time capsule” __________a frozen moment in history. volcanic occurred impression buried dig out preserving

41. Not only the buildings and objects of Pompeii attract the people, but also the forms of the people caught in the _______ that made the city a __________ to human history. The bodies of people died in Pompeii showed their exact _______of getting together for_________. Today, since excavations started, people and scientists visit Pompeii every year to learn more about the ______________. In this way, the city __________ nearly 2,000 years after its ________. disaster monument shapes protection ancient world lives on loss

42. Discussion: What natural disasters do you know? If you meet one of them, what will you do? To 22

43. earthquake hurricane flood tsunami fire To 19

44. Homework: • Read the text again and find out some useful words and expressions. 2. Finish the exercise3&4 in Page6-7.

45. Thank you