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　　Unit 3 Back to the past
　　Period 2 Reading Lost Civilizations
　　Teaching aims:
　　1)    To talt lost civilizations
　　2)    To help the students develop the ability of reading diary entries.
　　Important and difficult points:
　　The way of reading diary entries.
　　Teaching procedures:
　　Step1 Lead-in
　　1.     Show students a video about ancient Pompeii.
　　2.     Answer questions
　　2)    Where is the city of Pompeii?
　　3)    What happened to it?
　　4)    What is it like now?
　　5)    What else do you want to know about them?
　　Step2 Reading comprehension.
　　1.      Asdents to read the passage quickly and try to find answers to the questions in Part A.
　　2.      Asdents to read again and complete Part C1.
　　3.      Let students complete Part C2.
　　Step 3 Reading strategy
　　1.      Discuss in pairs about what features are usually included in diary entries.
　　2.      Let students read the Reading strategy.
　　3.      When you are reading diary entries recording someone’s travels, you should look for:
　　⑴ Dates and place names
　　⑵Facts and historical information
　　⑶Personal feelings and opinions
　　4.      Answer questions according to the text.
　　1 What happened to Pompeii in August AD 79?
　　2. How was the buried city discovered?
　　3. What were the stepping stones along the road in Pompeii used for?
　　4. Why was Loulan an important city about 2,000 years ago?
　　5. How do many people thinlan disappeared?
　　6. According to the last sentence, how did the author feel about the loss of Loulan?
　　5.      Find out the facts and historical information about the two cities.
　　Pompeii time event
　　in the 8th century  
　　in 89 BC 
　　on 24th Aug. AD 79 
　　in 1860 
　　Loulan 2000 years ago 
　　from AD 200 to AD 500 
　　100 years ago 
　　Step 4 Discussion
　　1.      Is it useful for people to study things from the past? Why or why not?
　　2.      Since as long ago as 1553 people have said, ‘History repeats itself.’