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1、Module 3 Adventure in Literature and the CinemaReadingThe SteamboatGoalsTo learn about Adventure in Literature and the Cinema To learn to read with strategiesProcedures Step 1 Warming up by learning about “adventure” and learning to “venture”Hello, class! Before we begin an adventure on Adventure in
2、 Literature and the Cinema, that is, Module 3, lets try to understand what it means by adventure.Her adventures travelling in Africa excites me.When youre a child, life is one big adventure. Popper described science as the greatest adventure in the world.They ventured nervously into the water. Hes n
3、ever ventured abroad in his life.She hardly dared to venture an opinion. He ventured a tentative smile. I ventured to suggest that she might have made a mistake. And if I say no? she ventured. It was wrong to venture his financial security on such a risky deal. This is the first time the company has
4、 ventured into movie production.Popular adventure film concepts include: An outlaw figure fighting for justice or battling a tyrant (as in Zorro or Robin Hood Pirates (as in Captain Blood) A search for a lost city or for hidden treasure (as in King Solomons Mines)Step 2 Warming up by imaging going o
5、n an adventureBoys and girls, what is adventure?Adventure is an exciting trip. If you are bored, you could imagine going on a great adventure.Have a go at caving, climbing, sailing and canoeing at Adventure Club during the summer vocation. All the activities at Adventure Club are run and supervised
6、by qualified and experienced staff Adventure Club started life in the 1970s as a sailing club for young people. Since this time it has grown and grown. Adventure Club now provides over 10,000 sessions of adventure to young people each year.Would you like to go? Then come with me!Step 3 Before you re
7、adPlease go over the word list for this module, paying attention to the pronunciation of the word, the relationship between its pronunciation and its spelling.Step 4 While you readCut/ the sentences into thought groups, blacken the predicates, underline the useful expressions and darken the connecti
8、ves.Step 5 After you readCopy all the useful expressions into your Expression Book and make your own sentences with them.a big storm/ after midnight/ pour down, stay inside the shelter, sail down, by the light of the lightning, in the middle of , look like, at first，hit a rock, half in and half out
9、of , sail straight towards, go under, after a couple of minutes, take a look, board a sinking ship, find something useful, on the boat, paddle over, climb on to the steamboat, keep as quiet as mice, to our astonishment, a light in one of the cabins, a mans angry voice, last time, run to the raft, fe
10、el very curious, putround the door, quite dark, lie on the floor, be tied up with rope, stand over, him, with a beard, havein ones hand, look like, have enough of, on the floor, leavehere, in a couple of hours, go down with, the frightened man, on the floor, die of fright, find a way to save , crawl
11、 along, take away, look terrified, persuadeto help, be tired to, climb quietly in, paddle away, by then, a safe distance away, feel bad aboutStep 6 Read to transfer informationYou are to read the text once again to complete the table with necessary information from it.Clues in the story of The Steam
12、boatParagraph 1A steamboat had hit a rock and was half in and half out of the water. We were sailing straight towards it.Paragraph 2“It looks as if itll go under soon,” Jim said, after a couple of minutes.Paragraph 3“Lets go and take a look,” I said.Paragraph 4Climbing on to the steamboat, we heard
13、someone shout，Oh please boys, dont kill me！I wont tell anybody!”Paragraph 5A mans angry voice answered, “Youre lying. You said that last time. Were going to kill you”.Paragraph 6I could see two men standing over a man lying on the floor, tied up with rope. Paragraph 7“Im going to shoot you now, the
14、taller one with a gun in his hand said. Paragraph 8No, dont do that, said the shorter one. Lets leave him here. The steamboat will sink in a couple of hours and hell go down with it.”Paragraph 9l thought. “I have to find a way to save him!”Paragraph 10We must find their boat and take it away, then t
15、heyll have to stay here, I said to Jim.Paragraph 11And then we found the mens boat tired to the other side of the steamboat.Step 7 Closing down by learning about steamboatsA steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a boat or vessel that is propelled by steam power driving a propeller o
16、r paddlewheel. The term steamboat is usually used to refer to smaller steam-powered boats working on lakes and rivers, particularly riverboats in the USA; steamship generally refers to steam powered ships capable of carrying a (ships) boat. Nuclear powered ships and submarines use steam to drive turbine
