Pompeii预习PPT课件

1、1.Why does the author call Pompeii a strange city?(P1) It is the city of Pompeii,and there is no other city quite like it in all the world. Nothing lives in Pompeii except crickets and beetles and lizards. A dead city!第1页/共36页2.What does the city like before it was destroyed? （P6）第2页/共36页庞贝古城遗址庞贝古城遗

2、址 第3页/共36页 庞贝古城建于公元前600年左右，是当时的希腊城市，公元前80年成为罗马帝国的一部分。这座城市是古罗马一个十分富裕的城市，有钱人纷纷在此居住，城内设施十分豪华。公元63年，这里曾经发生过一次大地震，16年后的公元79年8月的一个周日，火山爆发，庞贝古城从此消失。一直到1748年，就像中国农民打井发现兵马俑一样，一个意大利农民在种地时偶然发现，庞贝古城重见天日。历经百余年几代考古人员的努力，一个罗马古城的形态重新呈现在人们的视野里。现在的庞贝古城遗址东西长1200米，南北宽700米，城内面积18平方公里，有城门七扇。城内四条大街呈“井”字形纵横交错。主街宽7米，由石板铺就，沿

3、街有排水沟。城内最宏伟的建筑物，都集中在西南部一个长方形的公共广场四周，这里是庞贝政治、经济和宗教的中心。第4页/共36页宽阔的街道第5页/共36页曾经的恢弘建筑第6页/共36页第7页/共36页小型演出场所第8页/共36页寂静的街道第9页/共36页空谷幽巷第10页/共36页两千年前的壁画第11页/共36页地上各种精心雕刻的图案第12页/共36页这可能是个饭馆第13页/共36页阳光穿越还是时光穿越，我想起舒婷的一首诗：爱情穿过生死的界限，世纪的空间，交织着万古常新的目光 第14页/共36页曾经的繁华似曾相似第15页/共36页小巷人家第16页/共36页第17页/共36页大户人家还是富家商城第18页

4、/共36页两千年前的图案今天还在使用，立体感很强 第19页/共36页这应该是一个大型建筑第20页/共36页这算罗马大道吗？第21页/共36页这是曾经的都市中心所在地第22页/共36页这是一个作坊，那些罐子应该是装酒的器具第23页/共36页第24页/共36页哭泣的小男孩第25页/共36页 又是一个这些像化石一般的尸体，反映出人们世界末日前的真实状态。这是考古人员的一个创举，他们发现当那时的人们在突如其来的天灾面前离世后，经过一千多年的时光，尸体残骸早已无存，在已经坚硬的石灰石外壳中形成空洞，考古人员给这些空洞里面注入石膏，然后再去掉外壳，真实的还原了人们临死前的逼真形态。第26页/共36页How

5、 do you account for its prosperity?(P3) Pompeii was a prosperious city of 25,000 people . Nearby was the Bay of Naples,an arm of the blue Mediterranean.Rich men came down from wealthy Rome to build seaside villas.Farmlands surrounded Pompeii.Rising behind the city was the 40,000-foot Mount Vesuvius

6、,a grass-covered slope where the shepherds of Pompeii took their goats to gaze.Pompeii was a busy and a happy one.geographical position. wealthy residents第27页/共36页3.What happened to the city?Vulcanic eruptionWhy wasnt it rediscovered until almost 1,700 years later?Because it was buried deep.第28页/共36

7、页4.When exactly did the terrible event take place?How does the author describe the city and the people before the eruption?What were they doing ?(P4,P2) The tragedy struck on the 24th of the August ,AD79.Pompeii was a prosperious city of 25,000 people . Nearby was the Bay of Naples,an arm of the blu

8、e Mediterranean.Rich men came down from wealthy Rome to build seaside villas.Farmlands surrounded Pompeii.Rising behind the city was the 40,000-foot Mount Vesuvius ,a grass-covered slope where the shepherds of Pompeii took their goats to gaze.Pompeii was a busy and a happy one. (P3)(P8) At dawn on A

9、ugust 24,Pompeiis people awakended to another hot day in that hot summer.There was going to be a contest in the arena that night and the whole town was looking forward to the bloody fight of the gladitors .The children headed toward school,carring slates and followed by their dogs. In the forum the

10、towns important men had gathered after breakfast to read the political signs that had been posted during the night .Elsewhere in the forum the wool merchants talked business .The banker was going over his account books .At the inn late-rising travelers from the East awakened and yawned and called fo

11、r breakfast.第29页/共36页5.How is it that the author can recreat the scene so vividly? Is it pure imagination when he describes the event in such minute details?historical remainsimagination第30页/共36页6.Did the people of Pompeii know what was happening when they heard the terrible explosion from Mount Ves

12、uvius? What did they think it was?No.(P10 ) What was that? People cried from one end of the town to anoher .They stared at each other ,puzzled ,troubled .Were the gods fighting in the heaven?第31页/共36页7.What followed the eruption ? Did the rain of stone kill many people ? Did the people still have a

13、chance to flee to safety at that time ? Why didnt they ?(P10P16)a black cloud + a rain of pumice stones + a tremendous rain of ash + the earth trembled and quaked No. Because these stones were light .(People could hide in the house or in the cellar)Yes.(P15) Others preferred to remain within the cit

14、y ,hudding inside the temples ,or in the public baths or in the cellars of their homes .They still hope the nightmare would end .第32页/共36页8.What caused the buildings to topple and collapse? What caused the terrible fire?(P14 ,P16)The weight of pumice stones and the earthquake (P14) A rain of hot ash

15、 began to fall .The wooden roofs of some of the houses bagan to catch fire as the ash reached them .第33页/共36页9.Were most of the people killed by fire ? What caused the greatest loss of life?No .(P18) The poison gas .It was possible to protect oneself from the pumice stones but not from the gas ,and Pompeiians died by hundreds.第34页/共36页10.The deadly shower of stones and ash went into the se