1、Unit16 lesson1ks5u精品课件1.Do you like reading stories?2.Can you name some kinds of stories?storiesFairy talesDetective storiesLove storiesFantasiesHistorical storiesBiograp-hies Science fictionAdventure storiesMyth ks5u精品课件Lets enjoy some stories and identify the kinds of stories in the pictures.Fanta
2、syHarry PotterThe Snow WhiteFairy taleDetective storySherlock HolmesRecord of a Journey to the westMythBiographyRomance of Three KingdomsHistorical storyListen to the sound,use your imagination and guess what is happening.ImagineVolcanic eruptionMount Vesuvius PompeiiTo 8Pompeii:The city that became
3、 a time capsuleKey words:Have you heard about Pompeii?What do you know about it?volcanic eruption,buried,event,disappear,disaster,preserved,destroy,discover,scientistTo 5It is about a city named Pompeii,which was buried by a volcanic eruption and discovered again by some scientists 1,600 years later
4、.Listen and read:The main idea of the passage:Second reading:Part1.Write down the things in connection with the following people and time expressions:People/timeEventPlinyScientistsPeople in PompeiiAugust,24th,79 AD:More than 1,600 years later:1748:Today:Pliny:Find out some information about the fol
5、lowing people.Scientists:People in Pompeii:a Roman writerwrote about the eruption of Vesuviusfound the lost citygathered together for protectionOne person,sitting alone,looks like he is praying.The man was lying,looks as if he is trying to get up.August,24th,79 AD:More than 1,600 years later:The eru
6、ption had occurred and destroyed the whole city.Some scientists found the lost townsthat had been buried under the ashes.1748:By 1748,scientists had found an awesome historical site and dug it out.Today:Thousands of tourists and hundreds of scientists visit Pompeii every year to learn more about the
7、 ancient world.Sum up:fill in the blanks Pliny was a Roman writer who had _ and 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,
8、scientists started to _the ancient city Pompeii.It is like a“time capsule”_ a frozen moment in history.preserving,dig out,disaster,volcanic,monumentoccurred,capture,impression,ancient world,shapes,lives on,loss,witnessed,disaster,buriedwitnessedvolcanicoccurredimpressionburieddig outpreservingnnNot
9、only the buildings and objects of Pompeii attract the people,but also the forms of the people caught in the _ that made the city a _ to human history.The bodies of people died in Pompeii showed their exact _of getting together for_.Today,since excavations started,people and scientists visit Pompeii
10、every year to learn more about the _.In this way,the city _ nearly 2,000 years after its _.disastermonument shapesprotectionancient worldlives onloss What natural disasters do you know?If you meet one of them,what will you do?Discussion:To 221.Read the text again and find out some useful words and expressions.2.Finish the exercise3&4 in Page6-7.earthquakehurricanefloodtsunamifireTo 19
