اللغة الإنجليزية فصل ثاني

Unit 10

Lesson 3

Student’s Book pages 80 and 81

The text talks about:

-The Minoans contribute to the development of civilization.

-The disappearance of the Minoan civilisation a mystery.

- Crete was hit by tsunamis.

 

 

Unit 10

Lessons 5+6

SB pages 82 and 83

 

Listening

 

Audioscript

Pompeii was once a very busy commercial city near the modern city of Naples in Italy and about 20,000 people lived here. Then, on 24th August in the year 79 CE, hot ash from the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the entire city. In the 1600s, archaeologists rediscovered the city’s ruins under the ashes and started learning about the life that the people here must have lived.

This is the main street, Porta Marina. If you look down, you can see the stone rings where ships were tied to the dock. The sea must have come right up here in those days. These streets must have been fi lled with shops and stalls. There might have been chariots driving here, just where we are walking now.

 It’s interesting to look up at Mount Vesuvius from this main square, the Forum. Of course, the people couldn’t have known that they were in danger of a volcanic eruption, because Vesuvius hadn’t erupted for more than 1,000 years.

Here is an ancient take away restaurant! These holes in the counters held the pots for food. Now here we are at what must have been the finest house in Pompeii, the House of the Faun, with the lovely bronze statue of an animal in the garden.

These four big stone cylinders were once the bakery and the mill. The brick oven looks like a modern-day pizza oven. Lastly, we arrive at the amphitheatre. During Roman times, there might have been up to 5,000 people here, being entertained.