1. Reading 3
IECP
Fall 2014
Nikki Mattson

2. How was your break?
• What were the best/worst parts?

3. Agenda
• Idiom
• VP 13 – introduction and activities
• 8A – reading and discussion

5. Practice
1) What is a win-win situation that you can
think of?
2) Merging the companies was not exactly
win-win because the smaller
company__________.
3) Do you think marriage is a win-win
situation for the two people involved?

6. VP 13
• 1) pronounce and introduce words
• 2) complete
– pg. 130 (comprehension check),
– pg. 131 (word families),
– pg. 133 (words in collocations and expressions),
– and pg. 135 (words in discussion) – share and compare your
answers as you complete the activities
• 3) ask Nikki for a word assignment and draw
a representation of your word on the black board.
Don’t write the word, so the class can guess which
on it is!

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. …they gave him a massive amount of mercurous chloride…

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

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

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

17. 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.

18. WWhhaatt kkiilllleedd tthhee EEmmppeerroorr??
• Video

19. PPoosstt--VViiddeeoo DDiissccuussssiioonn
• 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?

20. RReeaaddiinngg -- 88AA
• Read 1 paragraph silently
• Orally summarize the paragraph with your partner
• Repeat these steps until you have finished the text
( 25 minutes)
• Complete pgs. 128-129
• Write 3 discussion questions that can be used by the
class for a discussion.

21. HHWW
• VP 13 quiz = Wednesday
• Unit 8 test = Monday