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1、ListeningPage 78How to preserve the Terracotta Warriors?The change in temperature and the sunlight when the warriors were excavated made them lose their colours.The forty kinds of mould are difficult to treat because they all need different kinds of treatment.3. What caused the terracotta warriors t
2、o lose their colour?4. Why is it not easy to solve the problem of forty kinds of mould?Page 81Pharaoh Tutankhamun was the most famous of all pharaohs but very unimportant as a ruler as his rule was so short. He ruled for about 8 or 9 years from 1334 to 1325 BC. So we know more about him after his de
3、ath than we do Reading Task (P82)NOTE: Pharaoh Tutankhamun about his rule when he was alive. The Egyptians believed in life after death. So they got all the goods they wanted to have with them in the next life buried in their tomb. The richer the person, the greater the number of goods. As Tutankham
4、un was a pharaoh, his tomb was filled with many wonderful treasures.It also contained statues of gods that would protect his tomb from evil spirits or thieves who might steal his treasures. The walls of the tomb, too, were covered with spells to preserve the pharaoh till he got safely to the Hall of
5、 Judgement. In the same way his body inside its three coffins was protected by four goddesses of the dead. By the tomb was a box containing four jars. They held the internal organs of the dead pharaoh, which were removed when he was turned into a mummy. First his brain was taken out of his head thro
6、ugh his nose. Then his organs were removed and put into the jars. Only his heart was left inside the body. Finally his body was covered in a special salt and left for forty days to “dry”. After this time the body was a mummy and was ready to be wrapped up and buried. As well as the body there were i
7、nstructions in the coffin on how to make the journey to the afterlife.Answer key for Exercise 1 on Page 83Object Material ColourDecorationBoxesPossibly woodBeautifully paintedTwo statues/Black Wearing gold shoes and carrying royal insigniaChairsGoldGolden With heads of animals and gods/Object Materi
8、al Colour Decoration Flowers / /Vases / With beautiful flower designsBoxes /Black /Chests /White /Seat /Golden /CartGold Golden /1. How did they know whose tomb it was? They read his name on a black box.2. Why do you think they thought these things came from another civilization? Because they were s
9、o strange and wonderful-more wonderful than anyone could imagine.Answer key for Exercise 23. Why did Carter get excited when he noticed the door to the tomb was still fastened? Because it meant that the tomb had not been opened by thieves.1. I would have to lock the tomb securely so that thieves cou
10、ld not steal the finds.2. I would have to lock the tomb securely so that the sunlight and temperature would not affect the finds in the tomb. Otherwise the finds may be spoiled.Suggested answers to Exercise 33. I would have to lock the tomb securely so that I could record all the finds carefully, an
11、d I would not want any of the finds to be moved.wall paintingSpeaking Task on P84These wall paintings are from the tomb of a nobleman named Nebamun. Nebamuns tomb was built around 1400 B.C. near the town of Thebes(底比斯底比斯, 埃及的古都埃及的古都). In pairs, discuss what you can find from the wall painting and fi
12、ll in the chart below.Evidence from the wall painting FoodArrangements for the mealFish, meat, vegetables and fruitChairs but no tables; food is served; entertainment at the same time as the mealEvidence from the wall painting ClothesHygieneGuests wear long floating dresses with large decorated coll
13、ars; servants and dancers wear very littleServants wash hands of the guests before serving the food Evidence from the wall painting EntertainmentPeopleDancersGuests: womenServants: menDancers: girlsPyramids Look at the pictures on P85 and discuss the questions below them. The order should be BAC. Th
14、e earliest pyramid is B, which is called step pyramid. It was built during the Third Dynasty (2800 BC). Step pyramid is generally considered theWriting first tomb in Egypt to be built entirely of stone anywhere in the world. The second is A. It was built in about 2,550 B. C., King Khufu, the second
15、pharaoh of the fourth dynasty, commissioned the building of his tomb at Giza. According to archaeologists, the top of the Khufu pyramid is in a way ripped off, which is in common with the first picture.Then the third one is the third picture. It is called bent pyramid, which was built for Khafre, th
16、e fourth pharaoh of the fourth dynasty. The bent pyramid at Dahshur shows us that the ancient Egyptians experimented a lot with the slope of the pyramids. In the middle of construction the builders must have decided that the slope of the building was too steep to continue. Thus, the top half of the
17、pyramid has a different slope.The pyramid had sloping sides so that the dead pharaoh could climb to the sky and live forever. The pyramid represented the rays of the sun.A sample version:I think the chronological order of bulling the pyramids is B-A-C. The earliest pyramid is B, which is called step
18、 pyramid. It was built during the Third Dynasty (2800 B.C.). Step pyramid is generally considered the first tomb in Egypt to be built entirely of stone. The second is A. It was built about 2,550 BC, King Khufu, the second pharaoh of the fourth dynasty, commissioned the building of his tomb at Giza.
19、Then the third one is C. It is called bent pyramid, which was built for Khafre, the fourth pharaoh of the fourth dynasty. The bent pyramid at Dahshur shows us that the ancient Egyptians experimented a lot with the slope of the pyramids. In the middle of construction the builders must have decided th
20、at the slope of the building was too steep to continue. Thus, the top half of the pyramid has a different slope.All the three pyramids come to a point at the top. As its name suggests, step pyramid is a series of six levels of stone decreasing in size as they ascend to about 200 feet (60 meters) in
21、height. Egyptologists have developed many theories about why the tombs of the early pharaohs were built in the pyramid shape. Variable reasons are possible: the pyramid represented the first land to appear at the beginning of time - a hill called Ben-Ben, the pyramid had sloping sides so that the dead pharaoh could symbolically climb to the sky and live forever and the pyramid represented the rays of the sunHomeworkFinish the Exs. In Best English on page 78-79.