CLIL History

 How ancient Egyptians make a mummy

  •  Mr Green dice :  "Egyptian history is fantastic!" Ed è proprio vero! 
  • Ecco la nostra attività in inglese che ha reso partecipi e ha entusiasmato i bambini delle classi 4A e 4B.
  • Ho portato in classe tutta la mia "collezione privata" di materiale proveniente dall'Egitto o da vari mercatini ;-) 



    e, prima che arrivassero i bambini in classe, ho allestito la cattedra, trasformandola in un  piano dove poi è avvenuta l'imbalsamazione del "faraone".


  •  Wash the body in Nile water.
  • Take out the organs: liver, lungs, intestines and stomach.
  • Put them in canopic jars, special containers for the organs.
  • Each jar has a lid with the head of a god.
  • Hapi is the god with a baboon head and represents the NORTH. It contains the lungs.
  • Duamutef is the god with a jackal head and represents the EAST. It  contains the stomach.
  • Imsety is the god with a human head and represents the SOUTH and contains the liver.
  • Qebehsenuef is the god with a falcon head and represents the WEST . This jar contains the intestines.
  •  Cover the body with a special salt called natron

  • After forty days the body is completely dry.
  • Fill the body with spices and plants.
  • Wrap the body in linen bandages.

  • Put lucky amulets under the bandages and say spells to activate their magical powers.



  • Put the mummy in a coffin 



  • Then put the mummy in another coffin, and that coffin in another coffin.
  • Then, put it in a secret room inside the pyramid.


  • In this pyramid  you can find a magic word: 
  •                                                               Look!