现代大学英语精读第二版book2unit10 PPT

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Background
Author
His Life
Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author, best known for writing science fiction.
about five senses • Know something about natural disasters like volcanic
eruptions, earthquakes, tornado etc.
Pompeii
Unit 10
Author
Background
Cuቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱture Tips
a. very strong or powerful b. to suddenly break into small pieces c. to throw violently in a particular direction e. to eat grass growing in a field f. to push sb./sth. into a small place g. complete and not damaged
Background
Culture Tips
Pompeii the Last Day
• A multidisciplinary study of the eruption products and victims indicates that at Vesuvius and surrounding towns, heat was the main cause of death of people, previously believed to have died from ash suffocation. The results of the study, published in 2010, show that exposure to at least 250 °C hot surges at a distance of 10 kilometers from the vent was sufficient to cause instant death, even if people were sheltered within buildings.
Background
Culture Tips
• The city of Pompeii is a partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples. Pompeii was partially destroyed and buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, and it was lost for nearly 1700 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1749. Since then, its excavation has provided an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of a city during the Pax Romana. Today, this UNESCO World Heritage Site is one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2,500,000 visitors every year.
Warming up
Warming up Questions / Activities
• Why does the author call Pompeii a strange city? • What happened to the city? • What was the city like before it was destroyed? • What are some other natural disasters in world
history that you have learned about?
Warming up Check-on Preview
Match the words with their correct meaning in the text.
1. hurl 2. graze 3. cram 4. intact 5. mighty 6. shatter
现代大学英语精读第二版book2unit10
Pompeii
Unit 10
W arming up B ackground T ext Analysis R einforcement
Pompeii
Questions / Activities Check-on Preview Objectives
Unit 10
In 1956 he graduated from Columbia University, having majored in Comparative Literature.
Background
Culture Tips
• Naples is the capital of Campania and the third-largest city in Italy, after Rome and Milan. It has a population of nearly one million within its administrative limits on a land area of 117.3 km2 (45 sq mi). The urban area of Naples extends beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of above three million.
Warming up Objectives
• Understand the structure and the general idea of the text • Know something about the history of Pompeii and what
happened in AD 79 • Be able to use specific verbs to describe things • Be able to create a dominant impression by using words