人教版英语选修7-Unit-3-Reading-TaskPPT课件

1、2021/7/241Do you know legend?Legend:a very old and popular story that may be true.Now lets share The Inuit Legend of Sedna the Sea Goddess. Glance the legend quickly and match the paragraph with the correct sentence.n1n2n3n4n5n6n7 Sedna discovered that her husband was a sea bird. The Inuit believe S

2、edna has power over the animals in the sea. The bird man was so angry at Sednas escape that he caused a sea storm. Sednas father threw Sedna into the sea and she became a sea goddess. Sedna didnt want to get married but her father told her she must. Sednas father helped his daughter escape. Sedna ag

3、reed to marry a stranger who promised her a good life.Read the text again and answer the following questions.1. Why did Sedna need to have someone to look after her?2. Why did the bird man dress up as a human?3. What do you think happened or should have happened to Sednas father? 1. Why did Sedna ne

4、ed to have someone to look after her?2. Why did the bird man dress up as a human?Because her father was getting too old to look after her.Because he wanted to marry Sedna and he thought that she wouldnt marry him if she knew he was a bird.3. What do you think happened or should have happened to Sedn

5、as father? Perhaps he died in the storm or should have died in the storm, because hes not a good father to Sedna. Work in groups to make up dialogues by using the information in the text and then act them out. You can start like this: (Narration 旁白旁白)Sedna was a beautiful young Inuit woman who lived

6、 alone offshore with her father. There were many hunters who wished to marry her but she refused them all. F: the father S: Sedna B: bird manF: Dear, the man looks strong, why not marry him?S: Dad, I think he is strong in appearance but weak in reality.F: Ok. But you must accept the next man who ask

7、s for your hand in marriage. The following day.Learn the key words and expressions.【Key words】 approach Inuit urge grab canoe guilty ignore flap【Key Expressions】 provide with ask for ones hand in marriage have no choice but to do sth. feel guilty about. let out in search of cut off hang on to yell a

8、t. 给给.提供提供. 向某人求婚向某人求婚 除除.之外别无选择之外别无选择发出发出寻找寻找对对.感到愧疚感到愧疚紧紧握住紧紧握住切断切断对对.吼叫吼叫Fill in the blanks according to the passage. Sedna was a beautiful young Inuit woman and many hunters wished to marry her but she _ them all, which made her father so angry that he _ at her,You must accept the next man who a

9、sks for your hand in _ . The following day, a stranger _ and Sednas father _ this hunter to marry his daughter. The man promised to yelled refused marriage urged approached _ Sedna with a good life and he looked handsome. Sedna agreed to marry him and went to his island with him. When they arrived a

10、t the island, Sedna found her huaband was a sea bird, but she had no _but to stay with him. Howerer, with time going by, she still could not become _ to the bird man. used choice provide So she began to call her fathers name and when her father heard her cry, he felt so _ that he decided to go _ _ _

11、 her. The father found his daughter and tried to take her home. When they two were_ _for home, the bird man found them and he threathened the father. Sednas father was so _ thatof in search guilty setting offscared he abandoned Sedna and even _ _ her fingers when shes trying to _ _ _ the side of the canoe. As a result, Sednas fingers became large sea _and Sedna herself sank to the bo