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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
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