Key:

Feeling of fear terrify, frighten, terror, horrible, fear, horrify, afraid Activity two: Experience a sea story

T: Have you seen the following films? What are they about? How do you find them? (activity one)

Sa: I watched Titanic. It is a love story. The romance between the hero and the heroine is moving and the pictures of the film are fascinating.

Sb: I have seen Treasure Island. It's about a sea adventure to find treasure on an island. I think the pirates were very cruel. I also believe that wisdom can win over cruelty.

Step III Pre-reading

Activity one: Predict the content

T: Look at the key words and find them in the pictures.

Help the Ss find these words in the pictures and get a general understanding of the story.

T: From the pictures, what content may be dealt with in the story?

Ss: The story may tell us two persons who met with a whirlpool. One person died, but the other survived the disaster.

Activity two: Predict the structure

T: According to your own knowledge in what way will the author write the story.

Sa: The author may first tell us what they are doing on the sea.

Sb: The author may then tell us how they met with the whirlpool.

Sc: The author may end the story by telling us how a man was saved.

T: You all did good jobs in the prediction. When we read stories, we may find most of the stories are organized as the following structure. Therefore, this will help us understand the story well following the structure.

Sample structure:

Paragraph function Content