By Miss Chen

• Do you love your mummy?Lead-in

• Ok, boys, please give me some adjectives to describe your dearest mummy.

Do you know that “mummy” has another meaning which is quite different?

• Now it’s our girls’ turn. What adjectives occurred to you as you saw the pictures just now?

A word believed to have magical（有魔法的） powers that can harm people .

curse

Can you guess what the mummies would do if they were disturbed?

What is Egypt famous for?

pyramids

What are in the pyramids? What are in the pyramids?

treasures

Mummies have provided good materials for thrilling （惊心动魄的；惊险的）） action movies( 动作片 ). Let’s see what’s really frightening together!

The Mummy Returns II木乃伊归来 2

• Collect your bones

• Gather your limbs

• Shake your earth from your flesh

• Your master is here

• Destroy them

Now let’s enjoy something real right here right now! Lines for reference are as follows:

The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

龙帝之墓

The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

• Emperor: You have served me well. I will grant you anything you desire.

• Ziyuan:I want to spend my life with General （将军） Ming

• Emperor: Of course

• (She chanted （吟诵） the sanskrit( 梵语 ) in an ancient language that the emperor did not understand.)

• Emperor: I feel your spell working. I am now immortal （永生的） . Come, I want to show you something. Be my queen （皇后） and I will let him live.

• General Ming: Do what he says! Save yourself.

• Ziyuan: You will never keep your word.

• Emperor: You are right. Now, join General Ming in hell. What did you do to me?

• Ziyuan: I cursed you and your army. The curse will never be lifted or the emperor will rise again and slave all of the mankind. When that day comes, there will be nothing and nobody to save us.

Fast reading

Can you predict what the pasCan you predict what the passage is about?sage is about?

Prediction

1.The title might be too general( 笼统 )

2.The first paragraph may help get your prediction more specific.( 具体 ) Look for key words in the first paragraph.

Can you guess what is likely to be talked

about in our text?

A. the Pyramids of Egypt

B. the makings of the mummies

C. the explorers who entered the tomb

D. the disasters that happened to those

explorers

Listen to the tape and answer the questions.

1. Who is Howard Carter?

He is one of the most famous explorers the world has ever known.

2. What amazing discovery did Howard Carter make?

3. What happened to some of Carter’s team members after the tomb was opened?

He found the tomb of King Tutankhamum.

They fell ill and died.

We can divide the text into four parts:

The summary of each part

Part1

Part 2

Part3

Part4

(Para1-2)

(Para4-5)

(Para6-8)

An _______to Howard Carter

The ________ of King Tutankhamun’s tomb

Some people’s _____ after the tomb was opened.

Different___________, but no __________.

（ Para3）

introduction

deaths

explanations

conclusion

discovery

Careful reading

an explorer

appearance love story

educationinterest

discoveriesmarriage

most1 _________

discovery In 2 ______

received money from 3 ______________

the tomb of 5______________

at a place near the city of 4______

contain the 6_______ of

the king

contain more 7_______ than we had ever seen

Lord Carnarvon

mummy

treasure

amazing

Luxor

1922King Tutankhamun

Read Para 4-5 and complete the diagram together

disasters

Carter’s lucky

pet bird

Lord Carnarvon

George Gould, Carnarvon’s friend

Richard Bethell, Carter’s secretary

Arthur Mace, another member

of the team

Howard Carter

caught a high fever and died twelve

hours later

fell ill with a fever and died in Egypt

swallowed by a snake

He lived on until

the age of 65.

died shortly

died of

heart trouble

Read Para 6-8 and find out people’s explanations and the writer’s opinion.

1 .Some people say:

2.Others believe that:

3.However, still others believe :

4. The writer’s opinion :The writer’s opinion :

coincidence

curse

viruses

has __?___been fully explained

Different explanations

explanations

never

Within Within sevenseven years, years, 2121 people who ha people who had something to do with the opening d something to do with the opening of the tomb of the tomb dieddied. What do you think . What do you think of it?of it?

1. There is possibility that …,There is possibility that …, because…because…2. The deaths can be explained like this ...2. The deaths can be explained like this ...3. I think their deaths are due to…,3. I think their deaths are due to…, because...because...4. In my opinion, all this happened 4. In my opinion, all this happened because …because …

Beginning with:Beginning with:

Homework

Try to retell the story.

Finish D & E from Page 44 to Page

45.