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Period 5 Extensive Reading Teaching goals教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

reflecting, pure, cell, became aware of, vivid, seaweed, narrow, upside down, sharp, tasty, scared to death, shallow b. 重点句子

I’m sitting in the warm night air with a cold drink in my hand and reflecting on the day — a day of pure magic! The first thing I became aware of was all the vivid colours surrounding me ... What a wonderful, limitless world it was down there!

2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the Ss to know more about the living things under the sea and experience the beautiful and harmonious nature by reading a diary describing the animals and scenery under the sea and learn to write a similar one according to the expressions given. 3. Learning ability goals学能目标

Try to improve the students’ reading ability by grasping the information in the dairy about the world under the sea. Strengthen their sense of environmental protection. Teaching important and difficult points 教学重难点

Enable the Ss to read for specific information and guide the Ss to write their own diary.

Teaching methods 教学方法

Reading, listening and speaking. Teaching aids 教具准备

A recorder, a projector and a computer. Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式

StepⅠLead-in Show some pictures about the sea animals. StepⅡReading

1. Look through the title, three pictures and some relevant information on Page 24 to predict what the main idea of this passage is. A. The fantastic things under the sea the author watched on TV. B. This is a fantastic diary. C. In a diary the author reflected on the wonderful life which was seen under the sea.

2. Fast Reading Glance quickly through the diary entry and number the paragraph topics in the correct order.

Topic colors and shapes dangers

reflecting

the reef’s edge

a final thought

some sea creatures

3. Careful Reading Were there more delights than dangers when snorkelling? List them and decide for yourself. Delights

①

seeing such _____________ ______ under the waves ②

seeing so many _________ ______ ______ _______ ③

exploring _______ _______ under the sea Dangers

①

meeting with some ___________ _______ ②

________ ________ in small caves ③

_________ _________ by sharks Complete these noun groups from the diary entry and give their meanings in

Chinese. Noun Groups ①

___________ air ②

_____________________ seaweed ③

________________ mouth ④

___________ lips ⑤

__________________ sea-slug ⑥

__________________ turtle ⑦

____________ teeth

⑧

____________ sharks Meaning

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Find the adjectives in the passage that go under these headings.

Number

Size

Adjectives

_____ _______ _______ _______ ______

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Pattern

_____ ____ _______ ____ ________ The order of adj. + n. Number comes before ______; size comes before color; color comes before ________. Fill in the blanks. During the snorkelling trip, the writer first became ______ of the _____ colours and the fantastic corals. He saw little fish ________ the bodies of larger fish, the

parrotfish _________ upside down, a sea-slug _______ by a sea-star, a turtle passing so close to him, an eel

________ its head from a hole, a clam _______ for something to swim in between its thick green lips. He felt ______ to death on seeing some creatures. It is a wonderful and __________________ world under the sea. Step III Discussion In groups, look at the expressions below from the diary entry. Check their meanings with each other. Then tell each other about the times you had feelings like these. 1.

a day of pure magic 2. extraordinary beauty

3. it was the most fantastic thing I have ever done

4. my heart was beating wildly

5. every cell in my body woke up

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6. (I felt) scared to death

7. it was like discovering a whole new dimension of life Step IV Language points 1. I’m sitting in the warm night air with a cold drink in my hand and reflecting on the day…

阅读下列句子，注意reflect的意思及用法。

1) His face was reflected in the mirror. 2) The windows reflected the bright afternoon sunlight. 3) Our newspaper aims to reflect the views of the local community. 4) He had time to reflect on / upon his successes and failures. 5) Moe reflected that he had never seen Sherry so happy.来源学科网ZXXK]

从以上句子中可以看出，reflect可作及物动词，也可作不及物动词，意为：“_____”（句1）

His face was reflected in the mirror. ；“反射”（句2）The windows reflected the bright afternoon sunlight. ；“表达；反映”（句3）Our newspaper aims to reflect the views of the local community. ；“思考”（句4、句5）。

作“思考”讲时，常用于以下结构：reflect on / upon sth.（句4）He had time to reflect

on / upon his successes and failures. ；reflected that ... （句5）Moe reflected that he had never seen Sherry so happy.

【即学即练】将下列句子翻译为汉语。

1) He looked at his face reflected in the mirror. 2) The literature of a period reflects its values and tastes. 3) She reflected that his argument was probably true. 2. The first thing I became aware of was all the vivid colours surrounding me…

阅读下列句子，注意aware的意思及用法。

1) He was well aware of the problem. 2) The little girl was not aware of having done wrong.

3) They suddenly became aware of people looking at them.

4) Were you aware that something was wrong? 5) I don’t think people are really aware (of) just how much it costs. 从以上句子中可以看出，aware作形容词，含义为“知道；意识到；察觉”。其常见用法如下：

★

be aware of sth. (句1) He was well aware of the problem. ★

be aware of doing sth. (句2) The little girl was not aware of having done wrong.

★

______________________________ (句3) They suddenly became aware of

people looking at them.

★

be aware that / how ... (句4、句5) Were you aware that something was wrong?

I don’t think people are really aware (of) just how much it costs. [即学即练] 将下列句子翻译成英语。

1) 你知道是什么时候了吗? 2) 事情在我不知不觉中发生了。

3) 她发觉有东西烧着了。

3. …the yellow and green parrotfish was hanging upside down…

upside down 意为“底朝上，上下颠倒，倒转，乱七八糟”。如：

The picture is hanging upside down. Thieves left the place upside down.

【拓展】turn ... upside down 把……翻得乱七八糟，给（某人的生活）造成大的变化或混乱。如：

Mark turned the whole room upside down looking for his book. Her husband’s sudden death turned her world upside down.

4. I told myself they weren’t dangerous but that didn’t stop me from feeling scared to death for a moment! 阅读下列句子，注意scare的意思及用法。

1) Don’t let the noise scare you; it’s only the wind.

2) She moved quietly to avoid scaring the birds away /off. 3) The child was scared of the fierce-looking dog. 4) Mike was scared to go bungee jumping. 5) I’m scared I’ll fail all my exams.

6) There’s been quite a scare about the possible side effects of this new drug.

scare作动词时，意为“使惊吓，使惊恐”，如句1 Don’t let the noise scare you; it’s only the wind.常构成短语：scare away / off_____，如句2 She moved quietly to avoid scaring the birds away /off. scared作表语，意为“害怕的”，常构成短语be scared of和be scared to do sth.,或在其后加从句，如句3至句5

3) The child was scared of the fierce-looking dog. 4) Mike was scared to go bungee jumping. 5) I’m scared I’ll fail all my exams.

scare作名词时，意为“惊吓，惊恐”，如句6 There’s been quite a scare about the possible side effects of this new drug.

[即学即练] 根据中英文提示，完成下列句子。

1) 昂贵的价格把可能购买的顾客吓跑了。

The high price is ________________ possible buyers. 2) 我害怕告诉她所发生的事情。

I’m __________________________ her what happened.

3) 爆炸声把我吓了一跳。

The sound of the explosion gave me quite __________.

Step V Have a try Using the third person to retell the passage in your own words according to the following information given. On the morning of January 19th

Go snorkelling

On the reef offshore The vivid colors

Explore small caves Get close to

A steep drop

Look down

A tiny spot On the morning of January 19th, he/she went snorkelling on the reef offshore. Under the sea, he/she saw all kinds of the vivid colors and fish. When swimming among them, he/she noticed the little fish and some other creatures. As exploring small caves, he/she …