课件25张PPT。 Lesson 1
Stories from History
Use the key words to make a guess: What happened to the city?Key words:
volcanic eruption, buried, event, disappear, disaster, preserved, destroy, discover, scientist Pompeii is located in southwest Italy near the grand city of Naples. The city of Pompeii was built around the southeast section at the foot of Mount Vesuvius near the Bay of Naples.
Pompeii was
a thriving city,
but would meets its doom on the morning of August 24, A.D. 79.
Mount VesuviusPompeii:
The city that became a time capsuleMount Vesuvius The eruption had occurred on August
24th,79AD.
original street of the city This is a fine
example of a
Pompeian artwork.
This fresco(壁画)
comes from the Vettius
House where there
are several
beautifully preserved
frescoes. People gathered together for protection in their last hours of life.One person, sitting alone, looks like he was praying.The man, lying on his side, looks as if he was trying to get up.Imagine what they were doing.Getting up/
strugglingescaping sleepingTo learn about the ancient worldScanning 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:On August 24th, 79 AD.It was of Mount Vesuvius in Italy.A Roman writer called Pliny.In 1748.Nearly 2,000 years. Talk about Chinese buried
army Terracotta WarriorsLanguage Points:
1 witness n. 目击者,(出庭)证人
v. 目击, (在法庭上)作证
I was a witness to this quarrel.
We were witnessing the most important
scientific development of the century.
我们亲眼见到本世纪最重要的科学发展。
2 leave a (deep) impression on sb
3 decay v. a.(cause sth)to become bad, rot;
b. lose power, vigor, influencen. [u] (state reached by the process of)
decaying
Our power decay in old age.
tooth decay 蛀牙
The feudal system slowly fell into decay.
4 But much more than buildings and objects,
it is the forms of the people who were
caught in the disaster that have captured
the imaginations of millions of people
across the world.
Grammar
Past Perfect
1 We use Past Perfect to talk about an
event or situation in the past which
happened before other past events.
The policeman arrested the man who
had broken into a jeweler’s shop.
We use the Past Perfect and the Past
Simple in one sentence to show the
order of past events.
When I arrived, She had left. What happened in the picture?
Use the key words to make a guess. This is the Marina Gate.? One of several portals to the city.? The gates were named according to where they would lead you.?
For instance, the Marina Gate faced the sea, while the Vesuvio Gate faced Mt. Vesuvius. The bodies of people who
died in Pompeii had decayed
many centuries before
archeologist arrived.