Teaching Plan for reading

By Zhao Yujuan（趙玉娟）

I. Subject: Reading (The Rescue)

II. Goals:

1. Have a good knowledge of the text.

2. Enable to describe one of your unforgettable experiences.

3. Realize the emotions of the characters.

4. Learn to save yourself when in danger.

III. Key & difficult points:

1. Understand the story fully.

2. Learn and realize some words expressing characters’ feelings and reactions: advance, seize, sweep, swallow, shake, strike, struggle, fright, pull oneself up, get on one’s feet

IV. Teaching procedures

Step 1 (Lead-in)

Last period, we’ve learned about some disasters. It’s terrible. If you experienced such a disaster, how would you feel? (Brainstorming)

surprised(adj.), astonished(adj.), terrible(adj.), horrible(adj.), awful(adj.), terrified(adj.), frightened(adj.), shock(v., n.), scared(adj.), fearful(adj.), dreadful(adj.), alarming(adj.), threatened(adj.), panic(adj.), worried(adj.), anxious(adj.) hopeless, hopeful

Step 2 (While-reading)

1. Introduction

The reading text is taken from the novel The Virgin and the Gypsy written by DH Lawrence (1885~1930), who was one of the most famous English writers.

2. Skimming reading（略讀）

Look through the title, the picture and the first sentence of the story. What can you guess?

Looking at the picture, I think the passage will be about a flood and when I look at the title I think there will be some danger and the two people will be rescued.

3. Scanning reading （查讀）

Great. Let’s check what you guessed by reading. You must have guessed it’s a story. Generally speaking, the author describes who (characters), when, where, the characters’ feelings and so on.

Read the story fast and divide the passage into 3 parts according to the changing of places.

Part 1: Para. 1~2: In the garden

Part 2: Para. 3~ 6: On the way to the house

Part 3: Para 7~11: Inside the house

4. Careful reading

Read the first part and fill in the table.

Part 1: In the garden

description of water water’s noise character(s)’ reaction character(s)’ feelings

a wall of water, advance, be upon, a terrible roar

run, seize surprised, wonder

Read the second part and fill in the table.

Part 2: On the way to the house

description of water water’s noise character(s)’ reaction character(s)’ feelings

sweep, swallow, cold, flow faster, be above her knees, go down a little another great roar

drag, pull her up, hold, struggle, get on her feet, fight for her life, look into each other’s face with a look of fright. frightened

Read the third part and fill in the table.

Part 3: Inside the house

description of water water’s noise character(s)’ reaction character(s)’ feelings

strike, move up like a sea, sweep …like a wild river, cut down, three meters deep, destroy, sweep away boom, a strange cracking noise, a terrible noise

run up the stairs, start crying, shout, be silent panic, hopeless

hopeful

Step 3 (Post-reading)

1. Discussion

The text is taken from a novel and without the ending. Can you imagine the ending of the story?

2. Writing skills

In the story the author used many metaphors（隱喻）to describe the terrible flood. Study the following and try to tell what they really mean in the text.

Metaphor in the text The original(原始的) meaning The meaning in the text

The noise grew to a terrible roar. Roar is the noise that lions make. The noise made by the fast flowing water is very loud, and frightening, like a roaring lion.

She saw a wall of water that was quickly advancing towards her. A wall is strong and high, made of stones or earth, like the Great wall. The water looks like a strong and high wall.

The first was swallowed the garden. Swallowing means taking something in the mouth and then down it to the stomach. It disappears into the body. The was is sweeping like a broom. The movement makes people and trees fall down.

Tree after tree was cut down by the water. We cut things using a knife. The water is as sharp as a knife.

3. The following are the things which happened to Flora. Put them in the right order.

①Flora turned around and saw Jeff waving his arms.

②Jeff dragged Flora towards the house.

③Flora climbed the stairs.

④Flora started crying.

⑤Jeff opened the hall door.

⑥Jeff seized Flora’s arm and told her to run.

⑦Flora struggled in the water and managed to get on her feet with Jeff’s help.

Your answer: ①⑥②⑦⑤③④

4. Here are some sentences from the reading passage. Can you work out what the underlined words refer to?

①Before she could move, she heard a loud noise, which grew to a terrible roar.

②There she saw a wall of water that was quickly advancing towards her.

③She wanted to watch it.

④Flora, whose beautiful hair and dress were all cold and wet, started crying.

⑤For some moments both were silent.

⑥Tree after tree went down, cut down by the water, which must have been three meters deep.

5. Reading comprehension

①What was the house like?

A、a flat B、a house with two floors

②“However, before she could think twice, the water was upon her” Which is Not the correct explanation to this sentence?

A、She has no idea that the water came upon her so soon.

B、She had no time to think more before the water was upon her.

C、The water came upon her so soon that she had no time to think more.

D、The water came upon her so soon that she didn’t think it for the second time.

③What’s the Chinese for the phrase “get on her feet”?

A、雙腳站立　　B、爬到腳上　　C、淹沒腳部　　D、踩到腳上

④Which of the following statements is Not true?

A、Flora was so surprised by the coming water that she couldn’t do anything .

B、The garden was completely destroyed by the water.

C、Jeff and Flora were saved by holding the chimney.

D、It was Flora who first found the flood.

⑤The word “after” in “ Tree after tree went down, cut down by the water.” has the same meaning as _________.

A. We will come back after 10 o’clock.

B. He would look after my baby when I went shopping.

C. Many tourists will come to visit this temple year after year.

D. The place was named after a famous explorer Columbus.

6. Cloze test

What an unforgettable day! At the moment Flora was so 1surprised at the big wall of water which was 2advancing quickly towards her in her garden that she couldn’t move. Jeff rushed to 3seize her arm and they ran together to the house. Before they got to the house, the waves 4swept them down twice. Jeff 5pulled up Flora with a lot of difficulty, 6holding onto a tree that grew against the wall. The water, which was cold as ice and 7flowed faster than a river, was above her knees. They looked into each other’s faces, 8frightened.

The chance of being 9rescued was narrow. They opened the door to the hall and got the chance to 10climb upstairs to the second floor. The water moved up like a sea. Flora started 11crying. The house would 12fall down!

They had to find the chimney because it would 13stand. Jeff looked out of the window. Tree after tree 14went down. The garden was completely 15destroyed, swept away by the wild water. A terrible noise went through the house. Before the whole house went down in the flood, they saw the chimney.

6 Homework

Rewrite the story in the first person, using the words for sequences like first, next, then and finally.

Blackboard Design

The rescue

Inside the house

On the way to the house

In the garden

flood

Extensive reading

The Great Fire of London started in the very early hours of 2 September 1666. In four days it destroyed more than three-quarters of the old city, where most of the houses were wooden and close together. One hundred thousand people became homeless, but only a few lost their lives.

　　The fire started on Sunday morning in the house of the King's baker(面包師)in Pudding Lane. The baker, with his wife and family, was able to get out through a window in the roof. A strong wind blew the fire from the bakery(面包房)into a small hotel next door. Then it spread quickly into Thames Street. That was the beginning.

　　By eight o'clock three hundred houses were on fire. On Monday nearly a kilometer of the city was burning along the River Thames. Tuesday was the worst day. The fire destroyed many well-known buildings, old St Paul's and the Guildhall among them.

　　Samuel Pepys, the famous writer, wrote about the fire. People threw their things into the river. Many poor people stayed in their houses until the last moment. Birds fell out of the air because of the heat.

　　The fire stopped only when the King finally ordered people to destroy hundreds of buildings in the path of the fire. With nothing left to burn, the fire became weak and finally died out.

　　After the fire, Christopher Wren, the architect(建筑師), wanted a city with wider streets and fine new houses of stone. In fact, the streets are still narrow; but he did build more than fifty churches, among them new St Paul's.

　　The fire caused great pain and loss, but after it London was a better place: a city for the future and not just of the past.

1.The fire began in　　.

　 A. a hotel　　 B. the palace　 C. Pudding Lane　　 D. Thames Street

2.The underlined word "family" in the second paragraph means　　.

　 A. home　 B. children　 C. wife and husband　　　 D. wife and children

3.It seems that the writer of the text was most sorry for the fact that　　.

　 A. some people lost their lives

　 B. the birds in the sky were killed by the fire

　 C. many famous buildings were destroyed

　 D. the King's bakery was burned down

4.Why did the writer cite(引用) Samuel Pepys?

　 A. Because Pepys was among those putting out the fire.

　 B. Because Pepys also wrote about the fire.

　 C. To show that poor people suffered most.

　 D. To give the reader a clearer picture of the fire.

5.How was the fire put out according to the text?

　 A. The king and his soldiers came to help.

　 B. All the wooden houses in the city were destroyed.

　 C. People managed to get enough water from the river.

　 D. Houses standing in the direction of the fire were pulled down.

6.Which of the following were reasons for the rapid spread of the big fire?

　 (a)There was a strong wind.

　 (b)The streets were very narrow.

　 (c)Many houses were made of wood.

　 (d)There was not enough water in the city.

　 (e)People did not discover the fire earlier.

　 A.(a)and(b) B.(a),(b)and(c) C.(a),(b),(c)and(d) D.(a),(b),(c)(d)and(e)

Key: 1.C 2. B 3.C 4.D 5.D 6.B