1、1.Stories from HistoryUnit 161.Do you know any city that disappeared within a minute?Lead-inPompeii2.What do you know about it?If you havent known much about it,watch the video,it will tell us something.Some new wordsfertile gulf navigate manufactured goods gourmet vicinity oblivious depict tranquil
2、 vineyard idyllic shatter fury Before we start,look atsome new words Pompeii 2,000 years ago,Pompeii layat the center of a fertile valleywith abundant water.In a widegulf at the sea known as M.richin fishing and easily navigated It was a city based on trade,cloth and other manufactured goods,but abo
3、ve all,its precious wines and its garum,the sauce which drove the Roman gourmets wild.In 62 AD,Pompeii with all the other towns in the vicinity of the volcano Vesuvius,suffered a terrible earthquake which caused widespread damage.With the financial/assistance of the Emperor Nero,inhabitants of Pompe
4、ii immediately set about the work of reconstruction.They restored the houses,the monuments and the bars destroyed by the earthquake.They were oblivious to the hidden threat of the volcano.In a painting of that period,Vesuvius is depicted as a tranquil mountain covered with trees and vineyard.79 year
5、s after the birth of Christ on the 24th August,that idyllic peace was suddenly shattered,Vesuvius erupted with terrible fury.1.Once,there was a thriving city.But one day,it suddenly disappeared.Use your imagination,and see how this tragedy happened.DiscussionFirst Reading:Read the whole passage quic
6、kly,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.Second Reading:write down the things in connection with the following numbers:August,24th,79 AD:The eruption had occurred and destroyed t
7、he whole city.1,600:More than 1,600 years later,some scientists found the lost towns that had been buried under the ashes.1748:By 1748,scientists had found an awesome historical site.250:Go through the whole passage,and find out what the following people did.Pliny:People in Pompeii:scientists:Third
8、Reading:Note-takinga 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.Pliny:People in Pompeii:disappeared under the ashes were gradually forgotten by the worldga
9、thered together for protection in their last hours of life.One person,sitting alone,looks like he is praying.Another man,lying on his side,looks as if he is trying to get up.found the lost townsfound an awesome historical site and started to dig out the ancient city of Pompeiihundreds of scientists
10、visit Pompeii every year to learn more about the ancient worldThose scientists:Answer the questions in exercise21.Why does the article describe Pompeii as a“time capsule”?2.What had Pompeii been like before the eruption?3.What can you see If you walk in the streets of Pompeii today?1.He had witnesse
11、d as a young manv.see something by oneself2.The eruption had occurred on August 24th,79AD.take place,happen(Vi.)Paraphrase3.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.hide the sun from being s
12、een/bury everything when it was passing 5.Time rewinds.v.go back to ancient times6.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,lookslike he is praying.alone is an adverb(副词).8.One c
13、an 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 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 a
14、ges.10.Time capsuleyou 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.Changes of Pompeii City:A thriving Roman city with temples,markets,restaurants andtheatres,works of art on walls;Summarydestroyed a
15、nd covered by a terrible volcanic eruption;people disappeared and forgotten by the world;the locations of the buried towns and villages were lost.discovered by some scientists;visited by tourists and scientistsevery yearGrammarPast Perfect tense1.Pliny wrote about a terrible volcanic eruption that h
16、e had witnessed as a young man.2.However,more than 1,600 years later,some scientists found the lost towns that had been buried under the ashes.3.Before the eruption occurred,it had been a booming Roman city.4.The bodies of people who had died in Pompeii left impressions in the ash.It shows an event
17、that happened earlier,before the other past event in the story.1.The audience left after the film had finished.What is past perfect tense?2.We got married a year after we had fallen in love with each other.3.By the time I got home,the others had eaten all the food.4.We arrived at the cinema lateafte
18、r the film had started.5.When I had arrived home and looked around,I saw that a burglar had stole my CD player.Henry,from London,married Anna from Poland.He once told a reporter that he had never been in love until he met Anna.Oral ExerciseSuppose you were Henry,what else would you like to say to the reporter?Visit Polandfall in love with a girleat Polish foodwant childrenspend all his time on one persontalk so openly
