(共16张PPT)
Unit 3 Traditional skills
Fishing with birds
There are many Chinese traditional skills. Do you know them
Beijing Opera
京剧
Chinese kungfu 功夫
Paper cutting
剪纸
Cormorant fishing
鸬鹚捕鱼
Look and compare
What are the differences between the two ways of fishing
net
pole
cormorant
post
fishing boat
Fishing with Birds
Skimming
Skim the article on page 35. Then match the paragraphs with their main ideas.
Paragraph 1 a describes a kind of bird.
Paragraph 2 b is about the future of fishing with birds.
Paragraph 3 c describes a fisherman.
Paragraph 4 d describes how the fisherman works.
Key words
Size(大小)
Colour
Good at (1)
(2)
Special ability
swimming
Dive down and stay under the water for up to two minutes
catching fish
black
large
About Wang Damin
Job
Age
Health
fisherman
over 65
fit
Scanning
Task 1—Information about Damin and the cormorants
Read paragraph 1 and 2 .Fill in the blanks below.
They can dive down 25 metres!
Do you know how deep they can dive
Scanning
Task 2—how the fisherman works
Activity 1:Read paragraph 3 .Finish the TRUE or FALSE questions.
1. Damin often goes fishing in the early afternoon. ( )
2. Damin ties a piece of grass around the mouth of each cormorant. ( )
Damin jumps up and down to attract fish. ( )
After dark , Damin hangs a light on his boat. ( )
5. The fish are taken from the fisherman’s mouth. ( )
Scanning
Task 2—how the fisherman works
Activity 2: Scan paragraph 3 and put the pictures into correct order according to the text.
a
g
f
e
c
b
d
Damin usually sets off in the late afternoon .
He ties a piece of grass around cormorants’ necks
Damin reached the right place and pushes the cormorants into the river.
Why does Damin usually set off in the late afternoon
Why kind of place is the right place
Activity 3:Find sentences to go with each picture.
During the day, he jumps up and down on his boat.
After dark, he hangs a light on a post at the front of the boat.
The cormorants bring the fish back to the boat.
Fish are taken from the cormorant’s mouth.
Damin throws fish into a big basket. Fish are thrown into a big basket.
Why does Damin hang a light on the post only to attract fish
What will Damin do with the big fish
Why do the fishermen jump up and down
a
set off
tie...around…
push…into…
jump up
and down
hang… on…
bring… back to…
take… from…
throw… into…
Damin
Scanning
Task 2—How the fisherman works
Activity 3: Retell how the fishermen work
g
f
e
c
b
d
Scanning
Task 3 -- future of cormorant fishing
Activity 1:Read paragraph 4 and answer the questions.
1.Where was cormorant fishing once practised
2. Are young people interested in how to fish with cormorants today why
3.What may happen to cormorant fishing in the future
No, they aren’t
Perhaps(可能) there will be no more cormorant fishermen in the world.
It was once practiced in lots of place in South-East China
Do you think cormorant fishing is efficient
Why does cormorant fishing may disappear
Post-reading
Nowadays, more and more traditional skills are disappearing, how can we protect them You can take one skill for example.
Discuss in groups . Write down your ideas and send it to the Pad.
Our group discussed the first skill Beijing Opera. We think …
We think we can ……to protect it.
Assignment
Create questions for your classmates to test their reading comprehension of the text.
Thank you!