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The curse of mummy●Teaching contents: Reading——The curse of the mummy●Teaching objectives:1. Enable the students to have a good understanding of the content.2. Provide chances for students to increase their knowledge of history.3. Introduce to them the skills related to predicting information.4. Provide the students the chance to introduce a person.5. Develop the students’ desire for exploring, the qualities of courage, cooperation, confidence andso on.●Teaching methods:1. Skimming, and careful reading.2. Asking-and-answering activity to check students’ understanding of the content.3. Task-based teaching methods.4. Group discussion.●Teaching aids: Powerpoint presentation.●Teaching procedures:Lead-in1.Play a song to arouse student’s interest to learn this passage.What does this song remind you of ? What happened to Titanic? Another explanation for its sinking is because of the curse of mummy which was taken on the ship by a businessman.2.Explain the meaning of curseCurse is a word that has a magic power to make sth. bad happen. For example: If someone hates you, he will say you won’t pass the examination tomorrow. That is a curse. Do you think it really works?Reading comprehension1. PredictionToday we’ll learn the special curse, the curse of the mummy.Look at the title, can you guess what the article is about?What more information can we get from the first paragraph?2Introduction of Carter.Read paragraph 1 to know the main idea.Predict what might be mentioned in the following passage.Read paragraph 2 to introduce Carter according to the diagram.3Playing videoCarter was at the gate of the tomb. Let’s following him to get into it. After students finish watching , ask questions: what are there in the tomb? What would you do if you see thesetreasures? What did they do according to paragraph 3? Is it right to empty other’s tomb of everything? Were they lucky although they became rich?4Reading paragraphs 4 and 5Read it and fill in the blanks and pay attention to the right form.5Listening to the tapeDiscussion: Why did these people die strangely? ( For example : They died because of the coincidence . )Fill in the blanks. Focus on the sentence structure. Ask students to show their opinion withthe sentence structure.6DiscussionDo you think Carter was an amazing person? Why or why not?HomeworkChoose one of the two (1) .Write a summary about Howard Carter.(2). Do you think Carter was a real amazing person ? Would youlike to be an explorer like Carter? Why or why not?。
译林牛津-M2U3-Reading课文《The-Curse-of-the-Mummy》The Curse of the MummyHoward Carter is one of the most famous explorers the world has ever known. He was brave and loved to visit and explore new places.During his life, he discovered many amazing things.Howard Carter did not go to school, but leamt to draw from his father. who was an artist. He was bright and curious about the world outside his home town. 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 the Egyptian kings. He found several imponant ones. Inside the tombs, he discovered a great fortune in jewels and gold, along with the preserved bodies of dead kings.These preserved bodies are known as mummies.In 1922, Howard Carter made his most amazing discovery of all, in the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt. He had received money from Lord Camarvon, a British man who was very interested in Egypt. Carter's team was working at a place near the city of Luxor. There, they came across the tomb of King Tutankhamun. It was the most important tomb that had ever been found. 'The tomb contained more treasure than any of us had ever seen before, as well as the mummy of the king,' said Caner. 'After we looked into the tomb, we closed it and hid its entrance. We wanted to study the tomb later when we had more time. Afterwards, all of its contents would go into a museum.'However, not long after the people in Carter's team . , Carter's lucky pet bird, which he in Cairo, a snake. Then, a few months after Carter the tomb, Lord Carnarvon, who was also when the tomb was opened, fell ill with a and died in . Carrrarvon's death,the lights in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. Back in England, his dog died at the same time. George Gould,a friend of Camarvon's, went to Egypt after his strange death. He too visited the tomb,a high fever the next day. Twelve hours later, he was dead. Carter's Richard Bethell, diedheart trouble four months after the tomb was opened. Arthur Mace, another member of the team, also died the discovery.Within seven years, 21 people who the opening of the tomb died. Howard Carter, however, lived. Some people say the deaths. Others believe that they were a mummy's curse, a for those who enter the resting place of the dead.However, still others believe that there is a scientific explanation.Inside the tombs, there are many viruses. When a tomb is opened, fresh air disturbs the viruses. If breathed in, they can result in illness or even death. Today, when scientists examine mummies, they wear special clothing for protection.What is certain, though, is that 'the curse of the murumy' remains a riddle to this day.。
