1、Period four( Reading Task in Workbook)Teaching Aims:Learn THE INUIT LEGEND OF SEDNA THE SEA GODDESSDiscuss origin of the sea goddess Important points:Important words and expressionsTeaching methods:Scanning and skimming Ask and answer questions activitiesIndividual, pair and group workTeaching aidsA
2、 computer and a projectorTeaching Procedures & waysStep 1 Discussion Picture 1 : 1. which part of the world do you think this man is from? Give reasons 2. what do you think his clothes are made of?Picture 2: 1. have you seen pictures of a creature like this before? Where? 2. do you know any story th
3、at involves a creature like her? What is her story?Step 2 reading Put the sentences into a right orderA. Sedna discovers that her husband is a sea bird B. the Inuit believe Sedna has power over the animals in the seaC. The bird man is so angry at Sednas escape that he causes a sea storm D. Sednas fa
4、ther throws Sedna into the sea and she becomes a sea goddess.E. Sedna doesnt want to get married but her father tells her she mustF. Sedna s father helps his daughter to escape G. Sedna agrees to marry a stranger who promises her a good lifeStep 3 Read the story again and answer the questions in pai
5、rs1. why did Sedna need to have someone to look after her?2. why did the bird man dress up as a human?3. why did Sednas father throw Sedna into the sea?4. what do you think happened or should have happened to Sednas father? Give reasons.5. Is Sedna very powerful? Give reasonsKeys 1. because her fath
6、er was getting too old to look after her.2. Because he wanted to marry Sedna and he thought that she wouldnt marry him if she knew he was a bird3. Because he was very frightened of the bird man and was probably afraid that the bird man was going to kill him. He probably thought that the bird man wou
7、ld stop the storm if he gave the bird man what he wanted 4. perhaps her died in the storm or should have died in the storm, because hes not a good father to Sedna5. Yes, because she has the power to keep the sea animals away from the hunters if she is angry. It is very serious if she does this as th
8、e hunters depend on the sea animas for food.Step 4 Writing 1. with a partner, take turns to tell the story about Sedna. Use the topics from Exercise 1 as a guide.2. now write down the story without looking at the reading passage.3. when you have finished, use the questions in the table below to asse
9、ss you own writing.Now read your partners writing and assess it , using the questions in the table below. Go through the table with your partner and explain your answersSample writingS 1 Once there was an Inuit girl called Sedna, her father insisted that she marry the next man she met. One day a man
10、 came in a boat promising to marry Sedna and give her a good life. It was only after the marriage she discovered that her husband wasnt a real man but a sea birdS 2 : she was very unhappy and tried every way she could to tell her father of her unhappiness. Eventually her father heard her cried and c
11、ame to rescue herS 1: when the birdman saw that his wife might escape, he caused a great storm to rise upS 2: Sednas father was so frightened that he threw her over the side of the boat and into the sea. She turned into a sea goddess.S 1: So now the Inuit believe that Sedna has power over the animals in the sea.
