B3U2 Extended reading
The last days of Pompeii
Learning objectives:
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
1.grasp the background information of Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius;
2. appreciate the plot and language styles of the author;
3. know the destructive power of natural disasters and a glory of humanity.
Step1: Lead-in
When do you feel nature is powerful and humans are weak?
Step2: Fast-reading
2-1. Finish the timeline of Pompeii
2-2. Analyze the structure of the passage
Step3: Understanding its plot
3-1. Read para.1 and rebuild the ancient Pompeii.
Q1: What can reflect a model of the whole Roman Empire?
_________________________________________________________
Q2: What can you see near the port?
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Q3: What was Pompeii like before the eruption according to Q1 and Q2?
3-2 . Read para2 and fill in the blanks.
Last Day Of Pompeii! When the citizens looked upwards
with_____________ fear, they saw a huge cloud shooting from the peak of
the volcano. It took the form of a _____ tree. Then, there was a fire. The fire
moved and changed in colour with every moment: now it was bright, now of
a pale and ________ red, and now again it burnt with an _________ light.
Q4: What’s the function of these filled words?
____________________________________________________________
800BC
Founded
79AD
________
1748AD
________
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The last days of Pompeii
Part1:para.____:
before the eruption
Part2:paras.____:
during the eruption
Part3:para.____:
after the eruption
3-3 . Read Para. 3-4
●Use adjectives to describe people’s feelings.
①The cries of women broke out; men, in silent.____________________
②If wife was separated from husband or parent from child, there was no
hope of their meeting again._______________
③ Each hurried blindly and fearfully
on.__________________________ __
●Which sense does the author use to describe the volcanic eruption?
④They felt the earth shaking._____________________________________
⑤They heard the crash of falling roofs._____________________________
⑥The mountain-cloud seemed to roll towards them.__________________
●Rearrange the sentences in a correct order.
A. The fire moved and changed in color with every moment.
B. The mountain-cloud rolled near, dark and rapid, like a river. It threw out a
shower of ashes and huge pieces of burning stone!
C.A cloud shot from the peak of the volcano, looking like a huge tree of fire.
D. The earth began to shake and the sound of falling roofs could be heard.
E. The earthquake came.
The correct order:________________________________________
3-4. Read para.5
Which one is not referred to about its remains unearthed? （ ）
A. Fresh walls B. Rich patterns of its floor
C. Silent restroom D. Half-finished columns
Q5: What do the remains of Pompeii remind us of?
______________________________________________________________
Q6: What effect does the comparison between lively past and lifeless
present of Pompeii create?
Step4: Making up a story
4-1 Choose one picture and discuss what the picture conveys.
4-2 Make up a story, using the instructions and add descriptive details.
1. Can you give them a name?
2. What’s their relationship?
3. What did they feel/see/hear/say at the last moment?
Step5 Homework
Polish up your story.
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