(
课件网) The Last Days of Pompeii (excerpt) 庞贝城的末日（节选） It is an ancient Roman city. It is an international tourist destination. It is located in Italy. 那不勒斯海湾 维苏威火山 What do you know about Pompeii Step 1 Lead-in It’s buried by a volcano. Watch the video Step 2 Pre-reading According to the title, what is the novel The Last Days of Pompeii about Watch the video A. Signs before the volcanic eruption. B. Description of Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius. C. Reactions and feelings of people. D. Rediscovery of the city. E. Eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Para. 1 Para. 2 Para. 3 Para. 4 Para. 5 Match each paragraph with its main idea. While-reading Read the Introduction. Answer the three questions. 1. What is the novel The Last Days of Pompeii about 2. When and how was the city of Pompeii destroyed 3. What is Pompeii like today The novel imagines life in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in the year 79，when Mount Vesuvius erupted. Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79. It’s an ancient city as it was and today it is an international tourist destination. While-reading Read Paras.2-4 carefully and rearrange the sentences in the right order. a. The fire moved and changed in colour with every moment. b. The mountain-cloud rolled near, dark and rapid, like a river. It threw out a shower of ashes and huge pieces of burning stone! c. A huge cloud shot from the peak of the volcano, looking like a huge tree of fire. d. Each hurried blindly and fearfully on. e. The earthquake came. c a b d e While-reading fearful fly, run press, push hurry scared, frightened hopeless, desperate A huge cloud shot from the top of the volcano. shook fell rolled showered While-reading It took the form of a huge tree: the trunk, blackness, the branches, fire! …the mountain-cloud seemed to roll towards them, dark and rapid, like a river. Now it was wildly bright, now of a pale and dying red, and now again it burnt with an unbearable light. …in the darkness, wife was separated from husband, or parents from child, there was…So came the earthquake…and so ended life in Pompeii. The cries of women broke out; the man looked at each other, but were silent. Each turned to fly—each running, pressing, pushing against the other. The awful night rolled slowly away, and the dawn greyly broke on THE LAST DAY OF POMPEII! It threw out a shower of ashes and huge pieces of burning stone! What Rhetorical Devices does the author use Simile(明喻) Parallelism（排比） Synaesthesia（通感：这种修辞法是以视、听、触、嗅、味等感觉直接描写事物。） Hyperbole (夸张) While-reading The Last Days of Pompeii (excerpt) 庞贝城的末日（节选） The Last Days of Pompeii (Excerpt) Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803－1873) was a talented British writer who left his mark on the English language. His classic novel The Last Days of Pompeii imagines life in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in the year 79, when Mount Vesuvius erupted. Thi ... ...
