Terracotta Army
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
Reading strategy: predicting information
Read the reading strategy on Page 43, trying to find out how to predict information in advance.
A. the pyramids of Egypt
B. the makings of the mummies
C. the explorers who entered the tomb
D. the disasters that happened to those explorers
What is it about?
Richard Bethell
Arthur Mace
died shortly after the discovery
Other strange cases
The bird was_____________________. swallowed by a snake
The lights_________________. went out in Cario
Let’s start our exploration!
Read Paras 2-3 and get more information about Howard Carter in the text
When he was young, he was ______ bright and ________ curious about the world outside. In 1891, at the age of _____, 17 he set sail for Alexandria, Egypt. By the 1920s, he had become an explorer, searching for the _______ tombs of Egyptian kings. Inside, he found _______, jewels gold and the preserved bodies of dead kings which are known as___________ mummies . amazing discovery of all. In In 1922, he made his most_________ the Valley of the Kings, his team found the tomb of King Tutankhamun.