1. Reading 3
IECP
Fall 2013
Nikki Mattson

2. HW
• Collect optional article summaries

3. Schedule
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

4. Agenda
• Idiom
• Unit 8A pre-reading
• TOEFL practice

5. Idioms of knowledge

6. It dawned on me
• Understanding came to me

7. Practice
• 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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

18. 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.

19. Pre-reading
• Pg. 124 – Read + part A

20. Pre - Reading Discussion
• What do you know about Napoleon’s life?
• What do you know about Napoleon’s death?

21. What killed the Emperor?
• Video

22. Post-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?

23. TOEFL Practice

24. HW
• VP 13 = Friday