高一英語Unexplained Mysteries of the Natural World教案
② how many people saw it?
suggested answers:
① black in color; jumped like a seal; its head looked like a horse.
② about 200
(2) ask ss to read the second paragraph and answer the questions:
① who else saw the animal?
② what were they doing?
③ what did it look like?
suggested answers:
① a group of soldiers
② they were walking along the side of the lake.
③ it was greenish-black and had a round head with 10cm horns.
(3) ask ss to read the third and fourth paragraph and answer the questions.
① what did li xiaohe see?
② why could they see the animal clearly?
③ how long was the history of reports of monsters in lake tianchi?
④ what do many people think?
⑤ what do the scientists think?
suggested answers:
① a round black creature moving quickly through the water. after 300 or 400 meters it dived into the water.
② the weather was fine and the lake was calm.
③ since the beginning of the last century.
④ the monster may be a distant cousin of the loch ness monster in scotland and there might be similar creatures in other lakes around the world.
⑤ the low-temperature lake is unlikely to be able to support such large living creatures.
(4) ask ss to read the last paragraph and give the following information about lake tianchi:
height: ① area: ② depth: ③
suggested answers:
① 2189 m ② 10 km2 ③ 370 m deep in some places
4. post-reading
ask ss to do activity 4 on page 53. then check their answers.
suggested answers:
(1) a (2) a (3) a (4) b (5) c (6)a (7) a (8) c (9) c (10) b
step 4. language points
purpose: to let ss understand the passage well.
1.group work
ask ss to discuss the important and difficult language points in groups.
(1) it often gets angry and will attack anyone who goes close to it. (page 51)
它經(jīng)常生氣，會襲擊靠近它的任何人.
attack vt & vi 襲擊
eg ① a girl was attacked and robbed by two strong men.
② the enemy attacked during the night.
※【拓展】
◆ attack vt 抨擊
attack sb / sth for sth 為某事抨擊某人
eg he was attacked for his corruption.
◆ attack n
launch / make an attack (on sb / sth) 攻擊某人或者某物
eg they launched an attack on racism.
(2) he claims to have seen a round black creature moving quickly through the water. （page 52）
他說他看見一個圓形黑色的東西在湖面快速游過。