Step 4: Post-reading activities

1. interview

A---the spokesman of Howard Carter

B---a journalist

B will ask A the following questions:

1) What kind of person do you think Howard Carter is? Why?

2) To be a qualified explorer, what kind of personality do you think he/she should have?

3) Do you think the personality of Howard Carter has had a positive effect on his discoveries?

4) As for students, what sorts of personalities does a student have to possess?

5) Compared with the amazing persons such as Mother Teresa, Bill Gates, Beethoven, Zhang Heng, do you think Howard Carter is as great as them?

6) Do you think the mummy's curse really exists? Why?

2. Write a summary about Howard Carter in a few sentences.

3. Focus on Part F and make up a dialogue as the example shows.

4. Do with Parts A1 and A2 on page 96 in Workbook to get more familiar with the text and the words in it.

Answers

A1 1. curious 2. emptying 3. examined 4. fresh 5. present

6. preserved 7. adventurous 8. resulted

A2 1. died, death 2. discovered, discovery 3. breathing, breath 4. believe, belief

5. short, shortly 6. strangely, strange 7. explorers, exploring 8. full, fully 5. Read Part A in Reading on page 100 in Workbook and answer the questions.

Answers

1. They cared about the stomach, lungs and liver because they put them in special bottles.

They didn't care about the brain because they just threw it away.

2. First, they removed the liver, stomach and lungs. Then they wrapped the body carefully and placed caps on the fingers and toes. They decorated the body before placing it in the tomb.

3. Many mummies were taken by foreign explorers and people used them to make medicine.

4. The Egyptians thought they would be questioned by their gods. If the gods were happy with a man, then he could begin his second life. Each hour of this second life was as long as the man's whole life on earth.

5. He doesn't know if he could get a second life after being questioned by the gods.