Titanic

未来水世界

钢琴别恋 金银岛

Lesson 4 Sea Stories What will the title remind you of? tsunami, seismic sea wave 海啸

tsunami, seismic sea wave 海啸

whirlpool

Look at the Key Words and find them in the pictures. barrel, cloud, fisherman, fishing boat, moon, wave, whirlpool

Read to learn Reading Strategies: Sequencing Look at the pictures Look at the pictures and decide which shows the beginning, middle and end of the story. Read each paragraph linking wordsthe order of events Read each paragraph. Pay attention to the linking words. They often help you decide the order of events, e.g. one day, suddenly, in the end. order Decide a possible order for the paragraphs. Read them in that order makes sense. Read them in that order to see if the story makes sense. 有意义，能理解； 合理，有道理，讲得通

Ex.4 Read the story again and answer these questions. 1.Why did the writer’s younger brother fall into the sea? (Para.B,in the middle ) He fell overboard because an enormous wave covered their boat. 2. Why did the boat go towards the whirlpool? (at the end of Para.B) With the wind and waves the boat went towards the whirlpool.

3. Why did the writer tie himself to a barrel? (On line 11 in Para. A) the heavier the smaller, lighter He tied himself to a barrel to help him float because he noticed that the heavier objects went down more quickly than the smaller, lighter ones. ______

4. Why didn’t his brother do the same (At the end of Para. A) His brother didn’t tie himself to a barrel because he was terrified and stayed in the heavy boat 因为他十分恐惧，呆坐在沉重的木船里。

5. Why did his old companions not recognise him? (Para. C & Line 2 in Para. B) His old companions didn’t recognise him because those six hours of terror had broken his body and soul. It took less than a single day to change his hair from black to white.

Ex. 6 Complete the sentences below with these words from the text: afterwards, in the end, one day, suddenly, then, when __________ in 1964, Robert Le Serrec was sailing near the Australian coast ________ he decided to stop near an island. ___________ he saw a huge creature resting beside his boat. He took a photograph, and _______ the creature swam away. ____________ he showed the photograph to scientists, but ____________ nobody believed him. One day when Suddenly then Afterwards in the end

Vocabulary: Word-building ( 构词法） Ex. 7 Find words in the story that the writer uses to describe his feelings. Para. B horrifying Para. A terrified, calmer, Para. C exhausted

Ex.8 You can often make different forms from one word. Complete the table with words from the story. Noun 名 词 Verb 动词 Adjective 形容词 Opposit e 反义词 Adverb 副词 to terrify X terrifying ly terribly safetyunsafesafely clarity horrifying horrified horrible X terror terrifying terrified, terrible, save safe clarify, clear unclear clearly horror horrify horrifyingly horribly

Ex.9 __________ ( terror) experiences at sea are not _________( common). In 1977, Japanese fishermen caught a __________( mystery) sea creature in their nets. Its ________( long) was ten metres and, _____________ ( fortune) for the fishermen, it was _________( death). It smelled very bad and they thought it might __________ (safe), so they threw it overboard. Because the photographs are ___________( clear), __________( science) have been unable to ____________ ( identify) the creature. Terrifying uncommon mysterious length fortunately dead unclear scientists identify unsafe

Speaking What would you do in the situations below? 1. you are in a boat going towards a big whirlpool 2. you are snorkeling and you see a very old boat at the bottom of the sea. 3. you are on a desert island 4. you are walking along the beach and you find a bottle with a note in it A: If I was on a boat going towards a big whirlpool, I would tie myself to something light. B: I wouldn’t. I’d….

Homework: Read aloud the story after class to find out any difficulty in it and mark it with your pen. Find out all the relative clauses in the story, and circle the words they refer to. Go through ‘ Notes to Lesson 28 on page 99’ carefully.