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Unit 2 Natural disasters
Extended reading
LEAD IN
Where did you go during your winter holiday?
Pompeii
Pompeii is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Why?
General reading
How is the excerpt organized?
In time order.
In spatial order.
With the development of feelings.
Before the volcanic eruption
During the volcanic eruption
After the volcanic eruption
volcanic eruption
General reading
Para.1
Paras.2-4
Para.5
How did you feel about your hometown? Use some adjectives to describe it.
Detailed reading: Para.1-Before the volcanic eruption
little shops, tiny palaces, wine bars
trading ships
leasure boats
forum, theatre
prosperous
civilized
“A model of the whole Roman Empire”
Detailed reading: Para.1-Before the volcanic eruption
It failed to warn the city.
Why is Mount Vesuvius mentioned in paragraph 1?
What did you see at dawn?
Detailed reading: Para.2-During the volcanic eruption
Now it was wildly bright, now of a pale and dying red, and now again it burned with an unbearable light!
Why is the word “now” repeated several times?
How did you feel?
it took almost a day to bury the city. Thousands of people died from the eruption.
What did you hear, feel and see in the next moment?
Detailed reading: Para.3-During the volcanic eruption
Women’s cries
Crash of falling roofs
Noisy crash in the stormy sea
Heard
Earth shaking beneath the feet
Felt
Mountain-cloud towards them like a river
A shower of ashes and stones
Saw
Detailed reading: Para.3-During the volcanic eruption
Where did the awful shower fall?
Over the empty streets-over the forum-far and wide-with many a noisy crash in the stormy sea-fell that awful shower!
Detailed reading: Para.3-During the volcanic eruption
Detailed reading: Para.3-During the volcanic eruption
How did you feel seeing the eruption?
Use verbs to describe what you heard, saw and felt.
Detailed reading: Para.4-During the volcanic eruption
So came the earthquake... and so ended life in Pompeii?
A role play!
What was the ending?
Detailed r