module6Book4.ppt

How much do you know about Lake Tianchi? Where is it? How big/ deep is it? a tourist guide a newspaper a dictionary a scientific journal Read the beginning of the passage and decide where the text comes from. Before reading Reading Vocabulary –4. Words-learning (5m) Guess the meaning in the box and do activity 4 on page 53. The keys: 1. A 2. A 3. B 4. B 5. C 6. A 7. A 8. C 9. C 10.B appear calm claim dive horn repeat skeptical seal sighting temperature What’s the topic sentence of the text? A. The “Monster of Lake Tianchi” is back in the news after several recent sighting. B. The weather is fine and the lake was calm. The Monster of Lake Tianchi lives well. C. The monster is a distant cousin of the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. While-reading Find out the main idea of each paragraph. Para 1 Para 2 Para 3 Para 4 Para 5 a third sighting of the Tianchi monster B. the latest sighting of the Tianchi monster C. information about Lake Tianchi D. more information about the Tianchi monster E. another recent sighting of Tianchi monster Reading Comprehension II Skimming Read the text carefully again and complete the following chart. People What they saw or said about the monster Men Fanying It seemed to be 1. ______ in colour and it jumped out of the water like 2. ______. Xue Junlin Its head looked like 3. _______. black a seal a horse People What they saw or said about the monster The soldiers It was greenish-black and had a round head with 4. __________________. It swam 5. _____________ of the water for about two minutes. 10-centimetre horns on the surface Li Xiaohe He saw a(n) 6. ___________ creature moving quickly through the water for three or four hundred meters and then it 7. _________ the water. Ten minutes later it appeared again and repeated the action. round black dived into Many people It may be 8. ______________ of the Lock Ness monster in Scotland and there might be 9. ___