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Unit Five
Lesson 1
A whirlpool
edge of the whirlpool
(circling at great speed)
boat (sinking into the whirlpool)
barrel
View and Predict
A fishing boat and three fishermen
enormous wave
fishing net
broken mast
weather?
full of fish
moon
cloud
floating barrel
The fisherman escaped (survived the storm).
hair color?
♦ fisherman a fishing boat a whirlpool waves
♦ one day suddenly in the end
♦ circle at great speed sink into tie ... to ...
float escape survive a storm
Task1 Pair Work: Use the words and phrases below to describe the pictures (guess the order of the three pictures)
What
When
Who
Where
A
B
C
1. What is a “Moskoe - strom”
2. Who wrote the story?
3. Read Para 1 and guess
what will happen in the story?
Task2 You’re going to read a text adapted from the short story “A Descent into the Maelstrom”. Read the fact file on the right. Answer the questions.
It’s a system of tidal whirlpools in the Norwegian Sea.
Edgar Allan Poe
famous for his mystery tales
Task3 Read the story and discuss these questions
1. How many main characters are there in the story and who are they? In which person(人称) is the story telling?
2.When and where did the story happen?
3. What’s the ends of them?
4. In what order is the story written? What’s the order of the three pictures in Task1?
Three: the storyteller, his younger brother and his elder brother. In the first person
The story happened about three years ago in the sea.
The storyteller survived(tied himself to a barrel).
His younger fell into the sea.
His elder brother sank into the whirlpool.
B
A
C
Time order
Task4 Read the story again. Circle time words and underline verbal phrases. Then fill the blanks and add the storyteller’s feelings.
About three years ago, something terrible 1.happened to me, and it took only six hours 2.________ my body and soul.
Scene One (__________)
One day, my two brothers and I 3._____________