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　　Unit 3  Back to the past
　　Project Creating an illustrated time chart
　　Part A
　　Step I  Reading
　　Read the article and try to get the main idea of each paragraph
　　Paragraph 1   Main events in Rome and China between 753 BC and 479 BC.
　　Paragraph 2   Similarities between China and Rome during the Han Dynasty.
　　Paragraph 3   Both Rome and China influenced other areas between 212 BC and 100 BC.
　　Paragraph 4   Rome and China had a difficult time in the following hundred years.
　　Read the article again and answer the following questions:
　　1.      When did Rome become a republic and what happened in China then?
　　2.      When was China united and by whom?
　　3. Which city did Han Dynasty have as its capital? Where is it now?
　　4.      What did China and Rome have in common during the Han Dynasty?
　　5.      When Silk Road was in use? And what was it used for?
　　6. When did the trade between China and Rome begin? What goods were traded?
　　7.      When did Han Dynasty fall and what did it result in?
　　8. When was Roman Empire ended? Was it the same story for China?
　　Step 2 Time chart
　　Read the time chart carefully and answer the following questions:
　　1.      What happened in both China and Rome in the year 509 BC?
　　2.      What about the year 27 BC?
　　3. When was Confucius born?
　　4. How long did the Han Dynasty last?
　　Conclusion:
　　What is a time chart?
　　A time chart should be a chart marked with time periods and important events that take place in certain time periods.
　　Step 3 Language points
　　•    1. Not only was Rome a city and a republic, but it was also to become the capital of one of the
　　•    largest empires in history. 罗马不仅是一个城市和一个共和国，它还是历史上最大帝国的首都。
　　•      这里Not only…but also连接句子时, not only 可以置于句首表示强调,这时第一分句要采用倒装结构。如：
　　•      Not only    ___          a first-class brain but also      _____            a tremendously hard worker.  
　　•      他不仅有着头等聪明的脑子，而且工作很能吃苦。