Unit 5 Humans and Nature Lesson 1 A sea story Reading 课件-2023-2024学年高一英语北师大版（2019）必修第二册

Unit 5 Lesson 1 A Sea Story Reading 新 课 导 入 Have you ever known any stories about the sea? Let’s talk 课 堂 学 习 Warming up Do you know any stories about people and the sea? Look at the pictures below. 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 Example: A fisherman is trying to survive a storm. Pre-reading You are going to read a text adapted from the short story “A Descent into the MaelstrÖm”. Read the fact file on the right. Answer the questions. 2 1 What is a "Moskoe-strom"? 2 Who wrote the story? 3 What do you think will happen in the story? It is a system of tidal whirlpools in the Norwegian Sea. Edgar Allan Poe wrote the story. Fast-reading Read the text. Discuss the questions. 3 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? The main characters are the fisherman and his brothers. The fisherman is telling the story. This story happened about three years ago in the sea. It broke his body and soul. (It took less than a single day to change his hair from black to white.) Careful-reading Read the story again. Complete the information in the boxes. Then add the storyteller’s feelings during each situation. 4 When we were coming back from the islands, the sky _______.Then a huge wave _________ and my younger brother __________. My elder brother ________”Moskoe-strom!” The wind and the waves carried us ______. Then, we were ________ it. Suddenly, we ____________. The boat was on the inside of _________ and we were going round ________. After I made three important observations, I tied myself to_______. I tried to make my brother _______, but he was_____. Soon afterwards, the whirlpool ________. The waves soon carried me away and finally a boat_________. The storyteller’s feelings: _________