1. Unit 6
The Tomb
of King Tut
Deborah Soong

3. Teaching Activities
Index

4. Teaching Activities 1st period 2nd period 3rd period 4th period
1. Warm-up
2. The Vocabulary, and Idioms & Phrases within Paragraphs 1-4
3. Reading – Paragraphs 1-4
2nd period
1. The Vocabulary, and Idioms & Phrases within Paragraphs 5-7
2. Reading – Paragraphs 5-7
3. Post-reading
3rd period
1. Word File
2. Sentence Patterns
3. Expansion
4. Writing Practice
4th period
Part II Oral & Listening - Unit 5

5. Warm-up
Vocabulary
Idioms & Phrases
Reading~
Paragraphs 1-4

6. No. No. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Warm-up Back Do the pictures
remind you of
Egypt?
You are turned
into stone by
Sphinx.
No.
No.
You are eaten
by a crocodile.
You are
drowned in
the Nile.
Did
Tutankhamen
die young?
Yes.
No.
Yes.
Was King Tut
an important
king in the
history of Egypt?
You will never
find the tomb
of King Tut.
Was Tutankhamen
a king of
Egypt?
Yes.
Was King Tut’s
tomb full of
treasures?
No.
You have been
cursed by
Tutankhamen.
Yes.
Yes.
You have lost
the game.
Congratulations ! You have
found the location of King
Tut’s tomb.
Back

7. Listen to paragraphs 1-4.
Skip

8. Now,
answer the
following
questions.

9. When was King Tut’s tomb
discovered?
On November 4,

10. What is the weight of
King Tut’s coffin?
2,448 pounds.

11. How many objects were found
in King Tut’s tomb?
5,000.

12. Reading

13. The life of Howard Carter
On November 4, 1922, archeologist
Howard Carter dragged himself
out of bed.
Would it be another
day of failure in the choking dust
Egypt’s Valley of the Kings?
The life of Howard Carter
Would it be another day of failure...?
→ Would he again fail to find the tomb of King Tut on this day…?
Valley of the Kings

14. The Life of Howard Carter Howard Carter was born in 1874 in
London, England.  His father, an artist ,
trained Howard in drawing and painting.
Howard Carter developed an early interest in Egypt. When he was 17 years old, under the influence of Lady Amherst, a family acquaintance, he set sail for Alexandria, Egypt. In 1890, it was under the direction of William Flinders Petrie that he grew as an
archaeologist.

15. In 1922, Howard Carter broke through and made one of the 20th century’s most amazing discoveries—TUTANKHAMEN. After his discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb, Howard Carter retired from field work. He began collecting Egyptian from field work. He began collecting Egyptian antiquities. He returned to England in 1939, and died in that
year at the age of 65. Howard Carter’s
discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen has
inspired almost a century of Hollywood movies.

16. Valley of the Kings The ancient Egyptians called it “The Place of
Truth”. At the end of the valley stands the
mountain of Thebes..It contains more then 60
royal tombs of the pharaohs of the 18th, 19th
and 20th Dynasty . It is ironic that the only
tomb to have survived with its treasure intact
was that of the young King Tutankhamen.
The discovery of this tomb in 1922 by Howard Carter changed the way we look at Ancient Egypt.

17. For 15 years, Carter had been searching for the tomb of King
Tutankhamen, often called simply
“King Tut.”
If he didn’t find it soon, he might have to give up.
King Tutankhamen

18. King Tutankhamen Tutankhamen’s mother seemed to have died
giving birth to him. When Tutankhamen was
only 9 years old, his father, the pharaoh Akhenaten, also died. Young, inexperienced
Tutankhamen became the pharaoh of Egypt.
He returned to Egypt’s traditional capital,
Thebes ,and married his half-sister Ankhesenamen. It is believed that all of these
were arranged by Egypt’s powerful vizier, Ay.
At 18, Tutankhamen suddenly died.

19. King Tutankhamen
Suspicion is raised as to the death of Tutankhamen. Tutankhamen’s marriage seemed to be a happy one. Paintings and objects in the Tutankhamen’s tomb show the affection between the young couple. Poor Ankhesenamen ended up marrying Ay, who became pharaoh of Egypt finally.

20. Luckily, this day would be different. The workers, who had
begun digging earlier that
morning, found something.
It was
a stone step about six feet long.
Carter knew almost immediately
that it was part of a sunken stair.
...it was part of a sunken stair.
→ ...the stone step was the first step in
a stairway that ran down to the
ground.

21. Did it lead to King Tut’s tomb?
Carter took that day and the next
to dig—carefully and slowly—
down to the 12th step.
There he
found a doorway.
The seals on the outer door, made 3,000 years earlier, proved that it was a royal tomb and that its contents were intact.

22. and his team arrived at the inner door. “Feverishly,” Carter later
On November 26, Carter
and his team arrived at the inner
door.
“Feverishly,” Carter later
wrote, “we cleared away the
remaining last scraps of rubbish
on the floor of the passage before
the doorway.”
clear away = clear up; clean out　清理
此處的rubbish不是指一般的垃圾，而是指一些碎石(stone and rubble)，和盆子或瓶子的碎片(broken pots and vases)，而這些碎屑可能是古代盜墓者所遺留下來的。

23. They then saw the royal seal of Tutankhamen pressed into the plaster.
seal: impression;an official mark left by pressing something into a soft surface
the royal seal of Tutankhamen pressed
into the plaster
→ the royal seal impressions of
Tutankhamen pressed into the
plaster on the second doorway

24. Fighting to control his excitement, Carter used a knife to make a small hole in the top of the door.
He took a lighted candle and peered inside.

25. “At first I could see nothing, but presently, as my eyes grew
accustomed to the light, details of
the room emerged slowly from the
mist, strange animals, statues and
gold—everywhere the glint of
gold.”
grow/be/get/become accustomed to
+ N/V-ing　習慣於…
I am accustomed to jogging before
breakfast.
Next
the light : the flicker of
candlelight

26. “At first I could see nothing, but presently, as my eyes grew
accustomed to the light, details of
the room emerged slowly from the
mist, strange animals, statues and
gold—everywhere the glint of
gold.”
原句＝
→ At first I could hardly see anything, but soon, as my eyes became accustomed to the flicker of candlelight, the interior of the room gradually loomed before me/
gradually I could see the interior of the room more clearly....

27. Carter stood in awed silence.
→ Carter respected what he had seen so greatly that he stood speechlessly.

28. “For the moment—an eternity it must have seemed to the others
standing by—I was struck dumb
with amazement.”
must + have V-en
表示「對過去的肯定推測」
must + V
表示對「現在及未來的肯定推測」
He did not show up today. He must have been busy.
The cake smells good. It must be delicious.
Next

29. “For the moment—an eternity it must have seemed to the others
standing by—I was struck dumb
with amazement.”
For the moment an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by....
→ It must have seemed the moment of
eternity to the others who were
standing by...
be struck dumb　嚇得目瞪口呆
We were struck dumb at the unexpected outcome of the basketball game.
Next

30. “For the moment—an eternity it must have seemed to the others
standing by—I was struck dumb
with amazement.”
with amazement = in amazement 驚訝地
We looked at the great painting with/in
amazement.
to one’s amazement　令人驚訝地
To my amazement, I got an A on the
math test.
I was struck dumb with amazement.
→ I was so surprised that I became
speechless.

31. Howard Carter had dug out the greatest treasure ever found in Egypt.
The four rooms held more
than 5,000 objects.
It took Carter
two months to reach the highlight
of his discovery—the burial room.
It took Carter two months to reach the
highlight of his discovery the burial
room.
→ Carter took/spent two months to
reach/reaching the best part of his
discovery the burial room.

32. There he found a gold coffin weighing 2,448 pounds.
→ In the burial chamber, Carter found
a gold coffin which weighed about
1,101 kilograms.

33. most famous item in the tomb— the extraordinary golden mask
He also found what is now the
most famous item in the tomb—
the extraordinary golden mask
which covered King Tut’s
mummified head.
The golden coffin, the mummified head
and the golden mask are to preserve the
physical form as well as individual
identity of a pharaoh.
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