Lesson4 Sea Stories教案

step 4  language points
1. that moment     在那一時刻    the moment      一……就
i was deeply moved and tears run down my cheeks at that moment.
the moment tom went off the taxi he ran towards the hospital.
2. great speed以非常快的速度移動   也可以寫成：with great speed
3. on/at the edge of
standing at the edge of a bridge is rather dangerous.
4.near to接近…；  close to緊挨著…
flood is coming near to our village.
the little child is standing close to her mother.
5. tie… to…  將…拴到…上
the cowboy tied his cattle to a tree and then he left away.
6. terrified 形容詞，可怕的。n. terror  adj. terrible/terrified   v. terrify
7. survive  vt./vi.活下來，幸存
few of houses survived the war. vt.（經過――）活（保存）下來
only three of the wounded survived.
8. less than少于… more than多于此…
9. be covered with  覆蓋著…  
the antarctic is covered with heavy throughout the year.
10. as you can see, i did escape.  did在這里起強調作用，對謂語進行強調。
i did come here yesterday.
在祈使句中，也借用助動詞do強調說話人的祈使語氣。如：
do give her my regards.
11.…and i cannot expect you to believe me more than the fishermen did.
exercises
find words in the story that the writer uses to describe his feelings.
keys: terrified horrifying calmer exhausted
you can often make different forms from one word. complete the table with words from the story.
noun verb adjective opposite adverb
terror to terrify terrified/terrible ---- terrifyingly
safety to save safe unsafe safely
clarity to clear clear ---- clearly
make new words from the words in brackets to complete the gaps. use a dictionary to help you.
(1)    (terror) experiences at sea are not (2)      (common). in 1977, japanese fishermen caught a (3)             (mystery) sea creature in their nets. it’s
(4)       (long ) was ten meters and, (5)      (fortune) for the fishermen, it was
(6)       (death). it smelled very bad and they thought it might be (7)      (safe), so they threw it overboard. because the photographs are(8)     (clear),
(9)     (science) have been unable to (10)     (identify) the creature.
step 5 homework
write a composition:
imagine his brother didn’t die.one day they met and his brother talked about his story.