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课件网) Unit 5 What an adventure！ Period 3 Developing ideas Learning aims 1. To know the brief introduction of Jules Verne and his works 2. To know the story of Twenty Thousand League Under the Sea 3. To learn to guess the meanings of new words 4. To learn to express your idea about an adventure trip What do you know about him Read the short introduction to Jules Verne. Who is he Jules Verne(1828-1905)was a French writer best known for his adventure stories. Often called the" Father of Science Fiction ”, Verne described in his stories technology and inventions years before they became realities. Verne’s most famous books are Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea(1870) and Around the World in Eighty Days(1873). Jules Verne It's a fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets. 1. Have you read any stories written by Jules Verne What are they about 2. What amazing things do you think you might find in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Now read the passage and check your prediction. Leading-in Paragraph 1 Words are not enough to relate such 6. _____! Paragraph 2 The surface of the ocean 7. _____me. The solar rays are beautiful. 8. _____by the sea, I felt it was another air heavier than the Earth’s atmosphere. Above me was the calm surface of the sea. I could see as if I was in broad daylight. Summary The part is 1. _____from a chapter of the book; Aronnax describes the 2. _____of walking on the sea bed. It tells the beginning of the story, there was a terrible sea 3. _____seen by fish hunter, then they wanted to catch it, but at last it was found a 4. _____and they were captured and taken inside it because of its secret at that time, where they found adventures in the new 5. _____world, but Ned Land tried to escape. adapted experience creature submarine underwater wonders astonished Surrounded Fast reading Read the passage and fill in the blanks. Reading Comprehension (1)What is the passage mainly about 1. Look through the passage and answer the questions. The passage is an adaptation from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, which tells the story of the author and his friend's adventures in the new underwater world. (2)What is genre of the passage It is a science fiction. The submarine is ahead of its time in the passage. Careful reading (1) Why were Biologist Professor Pierre Aronnax and others kept in a submarine A. People couldn’t find them at all. B. There was no creature forever. C. The submarine was not open. D. Captain Nemo came from space. √ 2. Read the passage again and choose the best answers. (2) What did the author see in the submarine A. The things outside it looked beautiful. B. The author couldn’t see them at all. C. The author wanted to escape. D. The author’s head looked like a nut. (3)W ... ...
