B CLASS (Lesson on Pompeii)

Παιδιά ας θυμηθούμε λιγάκι το ενδιαφέρον μάθημα για την Πομπηία...

DOOMSDAY IN POMPEII

.... At ten o’clock in the morning of August 24, the entire city were buried under a several-metre thick layer of ash, stones and lava. Pompeii is situated at the foot of Mt Vesuvius, but the volcano had not stirred since the city was founded; nor was there any warning that it was about to erupt — much less that it was about to erupt in the way that it did. When Vesuvius blew the plug of its gigantic crater into the air, an apocalyptic hail of stones and millions of tons of hot ash made Pompeii as dark as night. People fled in panic into entries and cellars but there was no escape, the falling ash crushed buildings and burned through wooden floors. People passing through the forum were killed by falling columns...... 

(SOURCE: all-art.org)

“The Last Day of Pompeii”, (1827–1833) – Karl Pavlovich Bryullov. (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)

Now watch the digital story about Pompeii from photodendro (πατήστε πάνω στην εικόνα για να δείτε το βίντεο ή πατήστε λήψη) to remember the story from your books. 

Then do a cloze task about Pompeii and self check your answers. 

Finally you can improve your listening and reading skills through this task.

If you have time (ha,ha..) you can watch the following educational videos about Pompeii and plaster casts.

1) The Lost City of Pompeii

2) Video on plaster casts

3) Reconstructing the faces of the dead

After all this stuff are you ready to do the following QUIZ?