Unit 6 Earth first Understanding Ideas 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第二册

Unit 6 Earth first Understanding ideas Lead in Watch a clip from the film Jaws and find out what happens. What’s your feeling about sharks ? dangerous aggressive(攻击性的) powerful huge fierce(凶猛的) man-eating intelligent endangered horrible terrifying What other words you can use to describe sharks ? cute scary interesting frightening tricky/slippery giant Sharks: dangerous or endangered? Activity 1 What type of text is this passage? A.Narration. B.Argumentation. C.Exposition. D.Prose(散文). Activity 2 What is the author's purpose in writing the passage? 1. To criticise Peter Benchley's misleading description of sharks in his book and advocate the protection of sharks. 2. To explain people's misunderstanding of sharks and raise awareness of shark protection. 3. To inform people about sharks and recommend the film and the book to them. Activity 3 Skim for the main idea of each paragraph. Para.1-Jaws people’s long-held idea: . Para.2-Jaws made people more of sharks. Para.3-The number of large sharks due to finning. Para.4-Peter Benchley and expert’s ideas of sharks: Sharks don’t humans. Para.5-The fortunate thing for sharks: More people want to _. strengthened white sharks are dangerous animals scared/frightened fell quickly target protect sharks from extinction Activity 4 Read for details Read Paragraph 1 and answer the questions 1. What kind of story does the film Jaws tell? 2. What’s the influence of the film Jaws’ success? 3. People’s attitude to sharks? It tells the story of a great white shark that attacks and kills swimmers. It strengthened people’s long-held idea of the great white shark as a dangerous animal. Before: People were of shark. scared 4. The author described the opening scene of the film Jaws so as to _. A. introduce the topic B. make people aware of sharks C. tell sharks are dangerous D. show his anger in the film Read para 2 Find out the facts and the result the facts have caused. scared made things worse sharks were bad animals that ate humans swimmi