老师：The year 2020 has witnessed many natural disasters, and they are very destructive. We have a flask, locus of plague and earthquakes. So today we will also learn a short novel, The Last Days of Pompeii. Would you please predict from the title of the novel what will be talked about in the novel? You may think of the following, what was the city Pompeii like before the destruction? What destroyed it? How did the people react in the disaster? What was left after the destruction of the city? Now, would you please read the introduction part of the passage and then think, why do so many people want to go to Pompeii to do sightseeing? You may think of maybe people are still curious about what life was like in the past. Maybe they want to admire how destructive and powerful the volcano was. So please read the part 1 and divide, please read the passage and divide it into three parts.
老师：Now, as we can see, we can divide the passage into three parts. The first part is paragraph one, and the second part is from paragraph 2 to paragraph four, and the last part is about paragraph for five. It is about what was left after the volcanic eruption. Now please read the Part 1 before the volcanic eruption. Before the eruption of Montvs Subius, what kind of life did people in Pompeii leave?
老师：They live a rich, energetic, prosperous, lovely, dynamic, busy and colorful life, as you can see from the pictures and you can see from the descriptions in our novel. But what about the volcano? What was the volcano Montevis Subius like? Now dark, now light. It is very mysterious and unpredictable. And it is also cloud kept. It is very high and by powerful.
老师：Now we can see there's a sharp contrast between the two images. The city life with a dynamic, energetic and prosperous, and the volcano with some mysterious, unpredictable and destructive. And from the contrast of the two images, we can see the doom was falling.
老师：Now, please read Part 2 of the novel. And while you are reading, please pay attention to the expressions used to describe the shapes and color of the mountain cloud erupted from the volcano. At a first it was a ships like a huge tree with its trunk blackness and the branches fire. The fires color changed dramatically region from wisely bright pale dying red to unbearable light. Then the mountain cloud seemed to rode towards the people dark and rapid like a river. And throughout the shower of ash and huge pieces of burning stones.
老师：And what impression does the volcanic eruption leave you? Maybe you think it was a frightening, powerful, unstoppable, destructive and even mighty. In the frightening scene how would people react or behave? So please underline the phrases and sentences to describe what people felt, did and heard. As you can see from the t
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