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Unit 5 Humans and Nature
Lesson 1 A Sea Story
【学习目标】
You will be able to
1. read and talk about a sea story
2. read for general understanding
3. read for specific information and understand words in context
4. learn about and practise synonyms and antonyms
5. learn about and practise relative clauses
【学习重难点】
1. reading for specific information
2. using relative clauses
【学习过程】
1. Talk about sea stories.
(1) What sea stories do you know? Share it with your partner. Use the following questions to help you organise your story.
a. Who are the main characters in your story?
b. When and where did the story happen?
c. What happened in your story?
d. How did the story end?
(2) Look at the pictures on page 30. Use the words and phrases below to describe the pictures.
a fisherman
| a fishing boat
| a whirlpool
| waves
| to escape
| to survive a storm
| to float
| wild
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2. Read the Fact File on page 30 and answer the questions.
(1) What is a “Moskoe-strom”?
(2) Who wrote the story?
(3) What do you think will happen in the story?
3. Read the text and discuss the questions.
(1) Who are the main characters in the story?
(2) Who is telling the story?
(3) When and where did the story happen?
(4) What effect did the terrible experience have on the storyteller?
4. How did the storyteller overcome his fear and struggle to survive from the whirlpool?
5. Retell the story, using time words such as when, suddenly, then, and finally.
6. Group Work: Thank and share.
(1) What were the three observations the storyteller made?
(2) Why did the storyteller survive while his elder brother didn’t?
(3) What does the storyteller mean by “it took only six hours to break my body and soul”?
(4) What lessons have you learnt from the story? Give your reasons.
(5) What is the story trying to say about the relationship between humans and nature?
7. Find synonyms or antonyms from the text.
Synonyms
| Antonyms
| terrible
| | black
| | amazing
| | less
| | cried out
| | top
| | frightened
| | old
| | | single
| | | dark
| | | edge
| | | calm
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8. Talk about yourself using relative clauses.
(1) I’ll never forget the day _________________.
(2) I was born in a city/town _____________________.
(3) I’ll never know the reason ______________________________.
【精炼反馈】
I. 请从方框中选择恰当的单词或短语，并用其适当形式填空。
on the edge of survive be curious about pick up at great speed
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1. The train was travelling ______________.
2. She is ______________ despair.
3. Many birds didn’t ______________ the severe winter.
4. The bus ______________ passengers outside the airport.
5. They ______________ the people who lived upstairs.
Ⅱ. 在空白处填入一个适当的词或括号内单词的正确形式。
1. We shall never forget the days ______________ we lived together.
2. After living in Paris for 50 years he returned to the small town ______________ he grew up as a child.
3. That was the reason ______________ she looked old.
4. The plane crashed in the areas of dense jungle. There were no ______________ (survive).
5. Women have yet to achieve full ______________ (equal) with men in the workplace.
6. Children show ______________ (curious) about everything.
Ⅲ. 请根据课文内容，填入恰当的单词或短语使文章完整。
About three years ago, something terrible 1. ______________ me. Those six hours of terrible experience have broken my body and soul. One day, my brothers and I were coming back from the islands, our boat full of fish. 2. ______________ the sky was covered with dark clouds and in less than a minute we were in a terrible storm. A huge wave covered our boat and my younger brother 3. ______________ the sea. My elder brother put his mouth close to my ear, and 4. ______________ the terrifying word “Moskoe-strom!”
We went round and round, nearer and nearer to the 5. ______________ of the whirlpool. After a while, I made three important 6. ______________. Based on what I had found, I tied myself to a barrel to help me float.
As you see, I did escape. Some time after I left the boat, with my brother in it, it 7. ______________ into the bottom of the whirlpool. Then it became less 8. ______________. In the end, a boat 9. ______________. The fishermen were my old friends, but they were 10. ______________ me.
Ⅳ. 请结合本课所学语法项目补全下面的文本。
John and Tom are talking about their vacations. Look at what they are talking and try to fill in the blanks with the help of context as well as the Chinese given.
John: Hi，Tom. Are you going anywhere on vacation this summer？
Tom: Yes, we’re going back to a national park in Califormia 1. __________________________（去年夏天我们去野营的地方）.
John: How nice! We’re going to California too. How about your last trip？
Tom: Oh, we had a terrible experience. It happened on the day 2. ________________________
（我搭起帐篷的那天）. In the afternoon 3. ______________________________（我们钓完鱼回来的时候）, it became windy. During the night 4. _______________________（雨开始下得很大的那个晚上）, I got out of my tent and went into my parents’ trailer. The next morning 5.______________________（我起床的第二天早晨）, I found that my tent was gone.
John: That’s really annoying. Then why do you still go there this summer？
Tom: The reason 6. ___________________________（我们还回加利福尼亚的原因）is that we have many close friends there. We plan to go hiking with them.
John: Sounds good. When are you coming back?
Tom: I don’t know the exact date, but I’ll call you on the day 7. ___________________（我回到家的那天）.
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