Unit 6 Earth first Understanding Ideas课件-2022-2023学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第二册

Sharks: Dangerous or Endangered 6 UNIT Earth first Understanding ideas 1 Activity 1 Tick the words that you would use to describe sharks. dangerous powerful endangered interesting man-eating terrifying cute intelligent huge 2 Activity 2 Which word do you think the author tend to use to describe sharks according to the title? dangerous or endangered 3 Activity 3 Choose the author’s purpose in writing the passage. To describe Peter Benchley’s misleading description of sharks in his book and advocate the protection of sharks. To explain people’s misunderstanding of sharks and raise awareness of shark protection. To inform people about sharks and recommend the film and the book to them. 4 Activity 4 Find out the topic sentence in each paragraph. para1 para2 para3 para4 para5 It strengthened people’s long-held idea of the great white shark as a dangerous animal. People have always been scared of sharks, but Jaws made things worse. After 1975, the number of large sharks around America fell quickly, and soon fell around the world. Finning would have an unexpected effect upon Peter Benchley, the man who wrote the book the film Jaws was based on. Not everyone who watched the film Jaws became afraid of sharks. 5 mapeop Activity 5 What influences did the film Jaws make on people? It made people frightened of sharks. Many people started to believe that sharks were bad animals that ate humans. Some people stopped swimming in the sea. Other people started fishing for sharks, killing as many as they could. 6 Activity 6 Why did the number of sharks reduce around the world? fear of sharks finning Finning is a type of fishing where sharks are caught and their fins cut off. What is finning? Why do people cut off sharks’ fins? To make shark fin soup. 7 Activity 7 What caused a deep change in Peter Benchley? He saw sharks being killed. What actions did he take? He fought to protect sharks. He admitted the misunderstanding of sharks in his book. 8 Activity 8 How did people change th