Unit 3 Lost civilization
eaching aims:
1. Train students’ reading ability about diary entries.
2. Get students to talk about the histroy about lost civilizations.
3. Get students to cooperate with others.
Teaching important points:
1. Train the students’ reading ability.
2. Develop the students’ speaking ability.
Teaching difficult points:
How to train students’ ability for reading diary entries
Teaching procedures:
Step1. Greeting and introducing the reading strategy:
Finish the table and then get the general elements in a diary.
Step2. lead-in
Watch a video on the last days of the Pompeii, and then turn to the text.
Step3. extensive reading
Read the passage and answer several questions on the screen
Questions:
1. What country is the author from?
2. What is China’s Pompeii?
3. What is one main similarity between Pompeii and Loulan?
4. What happened to Pompeii on 24th August AD 79?
5. Why was Loulan an important city about 2000 years ago?
6. What did Swedish explorer Sven Hedin found in Loulan?

Step4. historical information
Finish the table and then make a brief introduction about Pompeii and Loulan
Step5. Practice
Do the exercises on P45 if time permits.
Step6. Homework
Try to search for as many as useful phrases as you can in Reading after class.