Senior High English Module Six Pompeii: The city that became a time capsule Lecturer: Michelle Chen( 陈明丽 ) From: Ji Yan Middle School, Jinjiang

Analyzing the material and the students 1 Teaching aims 2 Teaching procedures 3 Design of writing on the Bb 4

Material analysis As we all know, Module Six is an elective one and the purpose of this course is to consolidate what students have already learnt, to further develop students’ English language ability. The main theme of this unit is stories, and I am going to talk about the first period of lesson one, stories from history, that is, reading comprehension. The focus of this period is to enable students to know the history through reading, to be specific, students should be able to get the general idea and some details of the historical event with the help of some necessary reading strategies

Student analysis Based on the one and a half year of senior English study, the students have adapted themselves to English learning through various activities, and they have acquired some independent and cooperative learning abilities. Therefore, the students won’t have much difficulty engaging in the tasks designed here.

1 Knowledge objective 2 Language skills 3 Cultural awareness 4 Moral objective Teaching Aims

Knowledge Objective Enable students to master some words (preserve, disaster, occur,…) by asking them to work out their meanings according to some given situations Language skills ① Improve students’ ability to find out the key information and understand some details of the a certain text by making prediction ② Train students’ ability to get the main idea and the general structure of a certain article by several times of reading Cultural awareness Make students understand the characteristics of historical stories and cultivate their interest in reading Moral objective ① Guide students how to know history more dialectically ② Enable students to realize their progress and encourage them to communicate and express themselves in English more freely Teaching Aims

Teaching Procedures One: lead-in(3’) Two: pre-reading(7’) Three: while-reading(20’) Four: post-reading(8’) Five: assessment(5’) Six: homework(2’)

Q1.What kind of story is it? Q1.What kind of story is it? Q2.What are the key elements in this kind of story? Step one: Lead-in (free talk) Suggested answer: A1. It is a historical story A2. Just like all other stories, the key elements included in a historical story are time, place, characters, the cause, development and end of the event

hhhh iiii ssss tttt oooo rrrr iiii cccc aaaa llll ssss tttt oooo rrrr iiii eeee ssssadventure stories biographies detective stories true stories love stories science fiction horror stories fairy tales humorous stories travel stories fantasies

Step two: Pre-reading Word competition Prediction (group work) A map of Italy Guess the meaning of the words according to the given sentences or pictures. Can you explain it in English or simply use its synonym to replace it? Q1.How to predict a text? Q2.Predict what the text is about. title, pictures, key wordspictures first couples of lines of the text

The volcanic eruption ___________ in Tangshan was a tragedy occurred

The house and the car are completely _________, it is really a disaster for the victims. destroyed

The police are helping the _________ boy out of the stones. So if a city is buried, we call it ____________ buried a buried city

The ancient objects which were dig out by the achaeologists are well ______ preserved

before the eruption

original street of the city

after the eruption

Pompeii lies near Naples, south of Italy.

Step three: While-reading 3. Third reading: Note-taking (group work) Go through the whole passage, and find out what the following people did. Pliny: People in Pompeii: Scientists: 1.Skimming: Q1.What is the article about? Q2.Match the paragraphs with their main ideas. 2.Scanning: Q1: Find out “time capsule” in the text as well as its meaning Q2: Underline the things in connection with the following numbers: August, 24th, 79 AD; 1,600; 748; 250 Q3: What had Pompeii been like before the eruption? Q4: What can you see if you walk in the streets of Pompeii today?

Step four: post-reading (class work) Pompeii ____ be a booming city _______near a volcano named Vesuvius. However, the volcano ______on August 24th of 79 AD, _____ nearly destroyed the whole city. And then Pompeii was _____ under the ashes and disappeared. Finally, it was forgotten by the world. Archaeologists didn’t start to ______ the city until Not only do the buildings and objects of Pompeii _____ the people, _____the body shapes of the people caught in the disaster________ tourists imagine what the people were doing when they faced it. Today, tourists and scientists visit Pompeii every year_______ more about the ancient world. In this way, the city ________ nearly 2,000 years after its _______. Task one: Fill in the blanks according to the story.

Task two: Summary What do you think of the “disaster”? (free talk) Suggested answer: We know the volcanic eruption is terrible. Mount Vesuvius even destroy the whole Pompeii. However, we should say thanks to the volcano. Without the Mount Vesuvius, people now couldn’t know the existence of the city Pompeii. The concept of time is too abstractive but it is the historical story that could bring us to visit the lost world.With historical stories, we can remember the past, understand the present, and enjoy the future.

Step six: Assessment and Lesson Diary Self–assessment The things I did Evaluation I played an active role in this class I expressed myself in English very well I followed my teacher well and took some necessary notes I worked together with my partners very well I made some progress in this class Total scores

Lesson diary 1. After learning this lesson, I understand what a time capsule means □ Y □ N 2. Do you like historical stories? □ Y □ N Because ___________________________________ 3. I learned some new words and could use it very well, such as ____________________________________ and the words I still have difficulty remembering are __________________________________________ 4. What strategies did you use today? ________________________________________ 5. A sentence for myself: ________________________________________

Step five: Homework ① Interview: one student act as Pliny, the others act as interviewers asking some questions about the eruption ② Dialogue: student A met an old friend studentB who just came back from his/her trip to Pompeii Make an interview or a short dialogue (choose one of them and do group or pair work after class)

The Design of Writing on the Blackboard The predictions from students: Score : Group 1-1: Group 1-2: Group 1-3: Group 2-1: Group 2-2: Group 2-3: Group 3-1: Group 3-2: Group 3-3: Difficult words: