课件16张PPT。 安徽省天长市铜城中学 杨天甲Welcome to our class! Unit 16
Stories
Lesson 1 Stories from History volcanic
eruptiona cloud blocking out the sunWhere did the eruption happen?Pompeii: The city that became a time capsule( )1.preserve( ) 2.witness( )3.occur( )4.tremble( )5.loss( )6.rewind7.architecture( )8.authentic( )9.sorrow( )10.sympathyA. to shake for fear, cold, B. the noun form of “lose”J. to go backwardsC. building designD.originalG. great sadnessF. mercy; pityI. to happen (v.)(n.)(v.) (adj.) Match the correct meanings with the new words.(v.)(v.)(v.)(n.) (n.) (n.) E. to keep sth. in unchanged conditionH. to see sth. happenEHIABJDGF( C )Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the new words.It to me that I had forgotten to lock the door.
2. He showed for the homeless children, so he gave them shelter for the night.
He spent a lot of money in _____________ the old building.
4. I’m at a what to do next.
5. To his , his father had died before he came back. occurredsympathypreservinglosssorrowon Aug. 24th, 79 ADtownsvillageslostburiedby 1748Listen and get the information about Pompeii.Scanning 1.Find out the information about Pompeii.
What is the article about?
What had Pompeii been like before the eruption?
Who wrote about the eruption:
When did the archaeologist begin to
uncover the buried city:
Why does the article describe Pompeii as a “time capsule”?
It had been a booming Roman city with temples, markets,restaurants and theatres.It is about a city called Pompeii. It was burried by a volcanic eruption in 79AD but scientists found it again 1,600 years later.A Roman writer called Pliny.In 1748.Because the volcanic eruption preserved building, objects and even impressions of people from the time.2.Match the information and the paragraphs together.What the tragedy brought to.
People imagine what the people were doing when they faced the disaster.
What Pompeii looked like before the volcanic eruption.
The City of Pompeii had been surviving for nearly 2,000 years.
Archaeologist uncovered the city of Pompeii.
The background knowledge of the volcanic eruption.Para 2Para 5Para 4Para 6Para 3Para 13.Gap filling:Pliny was a Roman writer who had ________ as a young man. He 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, archaeologist started to _______the ancient city Pompeii. It is like a “time capsule” __________ a frozen moment in history. Not only the buildings and objects of Pompeii attract the people, but also the forms of the people caught in the _______ that have ________ the imaginations of people across the world. Though the bodies of people who died in Pompeii had _______ for many years, the bodies showed their exact shapes. Today, since excavations started, people and archaeologists visit Pompeii every year to learn more about the ancient world. In this way, the city lives on nearly 2,000 years after the eruption that had _________ it .witnessedvolcanicoccurredimpressionburieduncoverpreservingdisastercaptureddecayeddestroyedGrammar: Gover over Past Perfect Grammar Summary 1, page 99
Than do the exercise 5 and 6 on page 7SpeakingAccording to the situation, make a dialogue and act it out ! One day, you met an old friend that you haven’t seen for a long time in the street. He/She told you he/she had come back from the visit to the city of Pompeii.Homework
1.Write down the summary of the passage in your exercise books.
2. Find out the sentences using Past Perfect in the text.Thank you for listening!