4. Do with Parts A1 and A2 on page 96 in Workbook to get more familiar with the text and the words in it.
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Answers A1 1. curious 2. emptying 3. examined 4. fresh 5. present 6. preserved 7. adventurous 8. resulted A2 1. died, death 2. discovered, discovery 3. breathing, breath 4. believe, belief 5. short, shortly 6. strangely, strange 7. explorers, exploring 8. full, fully |
2. While reading please identify the relationships between these characters and try to retell the passage according to the following diagram.
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Characters |
Who was he? |
What did he do? |
How did he die? |
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George Gould |
a friend of Carnarvon |
visited the tomb |
a high fever |
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Lord Carnarvon |
a British man interested in Egypt |
offered Carter money to explore the
mysterious; be present at the opened tomb |
a fever |
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Howard Carter |
a famous explorer especially for the
discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb |
in 1891 set sail for Alexandria, Egypt by the 1920s searched for the tombs of the Egyptian kings in 1922 found the tomb of King Tutankhamun |
seemed nothing to do with the tomb |
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Richard Bethell |
Carter’s secretary |
entered the tomb |
heart trouble |
1. Now please reread the passage and identify which statements are true and which are false. Then complete Part C1 on P44 individually.
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Answers C1 1 F 2 F 3 T 4 F 5 F 6 T 7 F 8 F |
2. Skim the passage and complete the three questions in Part A.
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Answers A 1. The article is about a mummy’s curse. 2. The name of the Egyptian King was Tutankhamun. 3. They fell ill and died. |
Step 3: Detailed reading for important information
1. Pay attention to the Reading strategy first before skimming the passage.
1) The article you are going to read is about a famous explorer who worked in Egypt. Read the article and make connections between the title and the explorer. Use your imagination and express your opinions freely with each other.
What might be the connections between ‘The curse of the mummy’ and the famous explorer?
Why does the writer choose ‘The curse of the mummy’ as its title here? Do you think the title can grab your attention and arouse your interest?
From your point of view, what might be dealt with in the following article? Can something like the explorer’s hobbies, his experiences of adventures, his achievements be covered in the article?
2) You’ve done a good job, expressing your opinions about the relationship between the title and the explorer and predicting the main contents of the article. That’s great. But to be more specific, can you anticipate what might be covered in the first paragraph of the article?
3)Please read the first paragraph and discuss how the first paragraph agrees or disagrees with your predictions.
What’s the first paragraph about? Is it the beginning of a story?
What does the writer tell us about the explorer in the first paragraph?
What words do you think are useful for you to predict the ideas included in the passage?
Now you may find the first paragraph serves as a general introduction of Howard Carter, and please pay attention to the key words in the first paragraph on the blackboard:
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famous, brave, adventurous, amazing |
4) With the help of the key words, you may predict the content of the paragraphs that follow.
What are the following paragraphs likely to do?
Will they give specific examples to support the general description of Howard Carter?
Exchange your ideas with your partners and then check your prediction by reading the following paragraph.
5) Now let’s focus on Reading strategy to review the skills of how to predict information in an article.
3. Please do Parts A and B in Listening on page 102 in Workbook. After you finish the note sheet through listening to a radio programme and a conversation, you should finish the letter in Part C on the same page.
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Possible example We are going to invite Ms Gao Jian to our school to give a speech at the end of this month. She once lived in Australia and has traveled around the world. She is friendly and outgoing. She knows China and Chinese culture quite well, and she also knows about the world. She was born in Yangzhou. In 1981 she went to Australia and lived there until 1991. Then she came back to China and studied in Nanjing No.5 High School. She is good at both Chinese and English. She studied English Language and Literature in Beijing University from 1994 to 1998. After graduation, as a Goodwill Ambassador for China, she traveled around the world giving speeches and introducing Chinese culture. She likes travel and adventure. In 2002, she started a school to help poor students get accepted to study-abroad programmes. She will talk about studying in foreign countries, as many students are thinking about this. We are looking forward to her coming. |
● Reading The curse of the mummy
Step 1: Lead-in
We all know that Egypt is one of the 4 ancient civilized countries. Do you know what Egypt is famous for? (Yes, pyramids and Sphinx.)
As we all know, the Pyramid is one of the 7 wonders in the world. Have you ever read or thought about what is inside the Pyramids? Look at the screen, please.
Today we’ll come to the text The curse of the mummy.
The passage is about a famous explorer who, with the assistance of Lord Carnarvon, led a team to Egypt and made some unexpected discoveries in tombs. It still remains a mystery how one of his discoveries led to illness and death for many of his team members.
Step 2: Fast reading for general ideas