Ancient Egyptian. ppt life styles ,achievements and decline

narrate about ancient civilizations,the most important achievements and the causes of their decline

1. Unit1:AncientCivilizations
Reading & Writing
pages36-37-38-39-40

2. Beforereading
•See the following video then answer the questions.
•1. Which ancient civilization is represented in the
video?
•2. How were its kings called.
•3. What were the main achievements of this
civilization?
•4. Name some of the gods that were worshiped?
•5. What is a mummy?
•6. Why were the great pyramids at Giza constructed?

4. Key
•1. Ancient Egyptian civilization.
•2. the Pharaos.
•3. art work, great stone monuments, developed the 1
st
world’s government, created the 1
st
forms of
arithmetic, a 365 day calendar, a kind of writing called
hieroglyphics.
•4. Osiris, Amun Ra(the sun god), Nubis(god of the
dead)
•5. when a powerful man died, his body was embodied
& wraped in many bandages & put in a coffin chich was
placed in a tunel with lots of treasures.
•6. to house the tombs of 3 powerful Pharaos who ruled
between 25 to 24 BC

5. As you read:
Have a look at the coping box & do task 1 that
follows:
Coping
Skimmingmeans reading quickly for gist (general
meaning). You skim through a written text in order to
find out about the topic and its general organization.
When you are asked to skim through a text, you
needn’tknow every word & sentence in the text. You
should concentrate, instead, on recognizing key
words,i.e. words that the writer considers to be
important. Key words are often repeated in the text.

6. Activity 1:Skim through the introduction and the
conclusion of the text and pick out four to six key
words.
•A. in the introduction: civilization -rose -
Egypt decline -fall
•B.in the conclusion: decline, fall ,Pharaoh
•

7. .Activity2: Use the key words you have picked
out in task 1 (page 37) to give a title to the text.
•The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egyptian
Civilization

8. Activity3:Now, skim through the whole text & match ideas
A-G below with their corresponding §. One of the ideas is
irrelevant. Write the numbers of §in the boxes.
A. The Pharaoh's government and its functions.
B. The Pharaoh and his importance for the
political unity of Egypt.
C. The unification of ancient Egypt.
D. Patriotic feelings in ancient Egypt.
E. The Pharaoh's ruining of Egyptian economy.
F. The idea behind the building of the pyramids.
G. The importance of Tutankhamen’s treasure.

9. (Irrelevant idea: G).
ABCDEFG
§1§2 §3§4 §5§6

10. Have a look at the coping box and do the task that follows.
Go through the text in the coping box to raise awareness of the importance
of scanning in reading. Compare and contrast the skills of scanning and skimming
•Coping
•Scanningmeans reading for specific
piecesof information (a fact, or a detail, or
a particular word). When you scan written
texts, your eyes should move quicklyto
find the information you are interested in.
Ignore irrelevant items. What counts here
is your power of observation.

11. • Task4: Scan the text and answer
the following questions
•A/ The major difference between Sumer and Ancient Egypt is
that the former remained a land of small city states whereas
Egypt became united under the rule of a single king.
•B/The benefits that the ancient Egyptians derived from their
system of national government are protection and internal
peace.
•C/The name Pharaoh means Great Housein Ancient
Egyptian.
•D/They were the dwelling places of the spirit of the Pharaoh.
•E/Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen in
1922.
•

12. Activity5:Whatdo the underlined
wordsreferto inparagraph1,2and 3.
•(this) §1
•The people of Egypt became united under the rule of a single
king
•(it) §2
•The Pharaoh’s government
•(its)§2
•The land
•(which) §2
•the raiding war bands
•(this) §3
•The Egyptians derived great benefits from their system of
national government

13. AfterReading:
Writea short summaryof the textyouhave studied.you can
help yourselveswiththesetechniques
•1 -Read the original passage or text very carefully and find the
general theme
•2 -Write a one-sentence summary of each paragraph
•3-Make notes (use keywords). Underline important words in the
text
•4 -It is brief without any unnecessary detail (20-25% of the
original)
•5 -Express other people’s ideas in one’s own words.
•6-Use synonyms or synonymous phrases
•7-Leave out examples, evaluations and interpretations.
•8-Turn complex sentences into simple sentences and combine
the sentences using suitable conjunctions.
•9-Check grammar, punctuation and spelling. Write your final
draft.

14. Answerthesequestions and use the answersto write
the summary.
•1-Where did Ancient Egyptian Civilization rise?
•1-Ancient Egyptian Civilization rose in the Nile River.
•2-Wha t has helped the flourishing of this civilization?
•2-It flourished thanks (because of) the unification of Egypt under
the rule of single king who was the Pharaoh
•3-Which benefits did the Egyptians’ system of government bring
to people of Egypt?
•3-It brought protection and internal peace.
•5-What caused the destruction of Ancient Egyptian Economy?
•5-The building of Pyramids as a dwelling palaces for the
Pharaoh’s spirit with burial treasure caused the destruction.
•6-What was the consequence of such economic ruin on Ancient
Egyptians Economy?
•6-It caused the fall and the collapse of the Ancient Egyptians
Civilization.

15. The summary:
Ancient Egyptian Civilization rose in the Nile River
and It flourished because of the unification of Egypt
under the rule of single king” Pharaoh» who brought
protection and internal peace to Egypt. However; The
building of Pyramids as a dwelling palaces for the
Pharaoh’s spirit with burial treasure caused the
destruction and led to the fall and the collapse of the
Ancient Egyptians Civilization

16. •Proposed summary of the text (about 10 lines):
• Ancient Egyptian civilization emerged along the Nile
Valley as a result of the unification of all Egyptians under the
central authority of one single king, the Pharaoh. The Pharaoh’s
government guaranteed both external and internal security to
the people of Egypt. As a consequence, the Egyptians grew
very proud of their country and became so fond of the Pharaoh
that they worshipped him as a God-king. This national pride
and identification with the Pharaoh kept the unity of ancient
Egypt and made its civilization prosper for many centuries. But
the economy of ancient Egypt was ruined by all the resources
that the Pharaohs put into the building of pyramids and the
burial of their treasures in their own tombs. Economic collapse
caused the gradual decline and fall of ancient Egyptian
civilization.