Reading 3Reading 3

IECPFall 2013

Nikki Mattson

HWHW

• Collect optional article summaries

ScheduleSchedule

December 2 (Monday) – Unit 8A pre-reading and TOEFL practice

December 4th (Wednesday) – no class (TOEFL)

December 6th (Friday) – Unit 8A text + follow-up +VP 13 check

December 9th (Monday) – Unit 8B reading + VP 13 quiz

December 11th (Wednesday)– vocabulary review, extra credit opportunity, Unit 8 test

December 13th (Friday) – games

AgendaAgenda

• Idiom• Unit 8A pre-reading• TOEFL practice

Idioms of knowledgeIdioms of knowledge

It dawned on meIt dawned on me

• Understanding came to me

PracticePractice

• It dawned on me that I might have been wrong about what time the meeting was when….

• After I dreamed about TOEFL tests last night, it dawned on me that…

• When I saw the police officer watching me, it dawned on me that…

Target VocabularyTarget Vocabulary

• After the explanation, try each word out with your partner.

It’s a story as compelling as any murder mystery.

The real cause of death, however, has been in dispute ever since.

Ben Weider…is a proponent of the theory that Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic, a deadly chemical.

Weider has relentlessly sought the cause of Napoleon’s death for more than four decades…

Additionally, the doctors who examine Napoleon’s body after his death didn’t find any of the usual symptoms associated with arsenic poisoning…

…they gave him a massive amount of mercurous chloride…

That and other medications disrupted Napoleon’s heartbeat and resulted in his heart ceasing to beat.

Could he, motivated by revenge, have poisoned the wine?

In Fornes’s opinion, evidence for murder by poisoning is inconclusive and wouldn’t hold up in a court of law.

Napoleon Bonaparte’s body was returned to France in 1840, and it has rested in a truly grand tomb in Paris for nearly 150 years.

Pre-readingPre-reading

• Pg. 124 – Read + part A

Pre - Reading DiscussionPre - Reading Discussion

• What do you know about Napoleon’s life?

• What do you know about Napoleon’s death?

What killed the Emperor?What killed the Emperor?

• Video

Post-Video DiscussionPost-Video Discussion

• What did you understand from the video?• What are some of the theories that explain

the arsenic that was found in Napoleon’s hair?

• What are the two very different opinions about his death that are expressed in the video?

TOEFL PracticeTOEFL Practice

HWHW

• VP 13 = Friday