Reading

UNDER THE VOLCANO

Teaching aims:

1. To train students’ basic reading ability.

2. To get students to know something about a disaster and learn some related words .

3. To get students to tell the story.

Teaching procedures:

Pre-reading

Step 1:

1.How many kinds of natural disasters do you know?

2. Have you ever heard something about volcano?

3. Do you how a volcano works？

The rocks under the earth becomes hotter and hotter and erupted from the

mountain.

Step 2: Ask the students to look at some pictures of Pompeii and volcano and describe how things could happen.

While-reading

Step 1: Ask the students to read the passage fast to answer the following questions.

1.What disaster happened?

2.When and where did the disaster happen?

3.Who were mentioned in the disaster?Who was the main character in the story?

4.What was the end of the story?

Step 2: Ask the students to read the passage again and underline the verbs while reading .

Exercises 1:

1.A volcano erupted on the 24th of August in 79 BC in southern Italy.

2.My uncle planned to save his friend’s wife Rectina.

3.My uncle went to rescue Pompy after saving Rectina.

4.The flames came from the homes of farmers who had left in a panic with the kitchen fires still on.

5.They decided to try the open air instead of staying in the house.

6.It was night when the volcano erupted.

Exercises 2: Ask the students to arrange the following statements according to the right order. (2, 4, 3, 1, 6, 7, 5)

1. He decided to rescue his friend Pompy.

2. Some people watched an unusual cloud rising from a mountain.

3. Rectina begged him to save her.

4. He ordered a boat made ready.

5. Two slaves helped him stand up and immediately he fell down dead.

6. He bathed and had dinner.

7. A rain of rocks was coming down.

Post -reading

Step 1: Ask the students to read the passage carefully and fill in the following

form.

Date: What happened:

First A cloud of unusual size & shape rising from a mountain drew my uncle’s attention and he wanted to see it from closer at hand.

Next After receiving a letter from his friend’s wife Rectina, he changed his mind to save her.

Then In spite of the danger, he turned back to rescue his friend Pompy and help calm down the other people.

Finally My uncle wanted to get out of the danger but failed. He was dead.

Task 1 The uncle of the writer was not afraid of what was happening. How do you know? Give three examples that show he had no fear.

Go to the place from which others were running away.

Rescue Pompy, help others calm down, bathe and have dinner, sleep, etc.

Slept after baths and dinner, told others the flames came from the homes of farmers who had left in a panic with the kitchen fires still on.

Discussion

If you were the Uncle, would you go to save your friends?

What can Ss learn from Pliny’s uncle? Give facts in the letter.

2.Suppose you are Pliny the Elder, tell us your story.

Suppose you are Pliny the Elder, tell us your story.

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