高二英语 模块6 Unit16 Lesson 1 Stories from History课件 北师

in fishing and easily navigated
It was a city based on trade,
cloth and other manufactured
goods, but above all, its
precious wines and its garum,
the sauce which drove the
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Answer the questions in exercise2 1. Why does the article describe Pompeii as a “time capsule” ?
Because it preserves a frozen moment in history.
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Summary
Changes of Pompeii City: A thriving Roman city with temples, markets, restaurants and theatres, works of art on walls;
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destroyed and covered by a terrible volcanic eruption; people disappeared and forgotten by the world; the locations of the buried towns and villages were lost.
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.
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Second Reading: write down the things in connection with the following numbers: August, 24th, 79 AD: The eruption had occurred and destroyed the whole city.
Roman gourmets wild.
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In 62 AD, Pompeii with all the other
towns in the vicinity of the volcano
Vesuvius, suffered a terrible
earthquake which caused widespread
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hide the sun from being seen/ bury everything when it was passing 5. Time rewinds. v. go back to ancient times
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6. You can admire the ancient architectures, statues, decorated walls and authentic objects characteristics of the time. typical of that time 7. One person, sitting alone, looks like 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.
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Third Reading: Note-taking
Go through the whole passage, and find out what the following people did. Pliny: People in Pompeii: scientists:
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Pliny: a Roman writer wrote about a terrible volcanic eruption described a cloud coming down the mountain, blocking out the sun and burying everything in its path, including whole villages and towns.
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3. The earth began to tremble and a volcano… shake
4. He described a cloud coming down the mountain, blocking out the sun and burying everything in its path.
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Paraphrase
1. He had witnessed as a young man… v. see something by oneself 2. The eruption had occurred on August 24th, 79AD. take place, happen (Vi.)
Unit 16
1.Stories from History
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Lead-in
1. Do you know any city that disappeared within a minute?
Pompeii
2. What do you know about it?
If you haven’t known much
damage. With the financial/ assistance
of the Emperor Nero, inhabitants of
Pompeii immediately set about the
work of reconstruction. They restored
the houses, the monuments and the
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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.
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People in Pompeii:
disappeared under the ashes were gradually forgotten by the world gathered together for protection in their last hours of life.
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and try to find out what happened to Pompeii. It was destroyed and covered by a volcanic eruption and discovered again by some archaeologists 1,600 years later.
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10. 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.
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1,600: More than 1,600 years later, some scientists found the lost towns that had been buried under the ashes.
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1748: By 1748, scientists had found an awesome historical site.
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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.
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One person, sitting alone, looks like he is praying. Another man, lying on his side, looks as if he is trying to get up.
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Those scientists:
found the lost towns found an awesome historical site and started to dig out the ancient city of Pompeii hundreds of scientists visit Pompeii every year to learn more about the ancient world
about it, watch the video, it
will tell us something.
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Before we start, look at some new words
Some new words
fertile gulf navigate
manufactured goods
gourmet vicinity oblivious
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Discussion
1. Once, there was a thriving city. But one day, it suddenly disappeared. Use your imagination, and see how this tragedy happened.
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First Reading: Read the whole passage quickly,
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alone is an adverb(副词). 8. One can only feel sorry and deep sympathy for these once-living statues. 9. The city lives on nearly 2,000
years after its loss. keep alive
bars destroyed by the earthquake.
They were oblivious to the hidden
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threat of the volcano.
In a painting of that period, Vesuvius is depicted as a tranquil mountain covered with trees and vineyard. 79 years after the birth of Christ on the 24th August, that idyllic peace was suddenly shattered, Vesuvius erupted with terrible fury.
depict tranquil vineyard
idyllic shhatter fury
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Pompeii
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2,000 years ago, Pompeii lay
at the center of a fertile valley
with abundant water. In a wide
gulf at the sea known as M. rich