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Sharks:
dangerous or endangered?
Q1: What can you see?
dark background
an alarming word
a swimming person
a shark with sharp teeth targeting the woman
Q2: How do you feel about it?
Q3: What may happen next?
To show how the film made people feel afraid of sharks. The scene scared many people who saw the film, making them think that sharks are dangerous and want to hurt humans.
Activity 3: Read for details
Q1: What does the author want to present by mentioning Jaws ?
The author wants to present the negative impact on people behavlour.
Q2: How did people react after watching the film differently?
Dangerous
Q3: What might be the result of killing？
Indifferent
Endangered
Endangered
Activity 3: Read for details
Q: Why are they endangered？
fear
finning
people's long.held idea of the great white shark as a dangerous animal.
made people much more
of sharks, especially of the great white shark.
Sharks are caught and their fins cut off to .
The sharks are thrown back to the sea where .
Jaws
strengthens
Jaws
frightened
make shark fin soup
they die slowly and painfully
Awful sight of finning
Sharks: endangered!
Let’s save sharks!
have a normal fear
more frightened
indifferent
make profits form finning
protect them from extinction
People's attitudes towards sharks
changed!
Activity 4
Complete the chart showing how attitudes towards sharks have changed with words and expressions from the passage.
as dangerous animals
sharks were bad animals
that ate humans
swimming in the sea
fish for sharks
fear of sharks and
finning
was wrong about sharks’ behaviour
to protect
sharks do not see people as food
understanding sharks
protect sharks from extinction
Q: How did people's attitudes towards sharks change?
How about Peter Benchley's attitudes?
03
03
02
02
01
01
Before 1980
1980
After 1980
Things he did
Attitudes he held
He wrote the book the film Jaws was based on.
Sharks were dangerous animals.
He saw fishermen were fnning and the sea floor was covered with dead sharks.
People are dangerous to sharks.
He admitted that his book was wrong about sharks’ behaviour. He fought to protect sharks.
Sharks don't target people.
1.To criticize Peter Benchley’s misleading description of sharks in his book and advocate the protection of sharks.
2.To explain people’s misunderstanding of sharks and raise awareness of shark protection.
3.To inform people about sharks and recommend the film and the book to them.
Choose the author’s purpose in writing the passage.
long-held idea
Images depicted by Jaws
ideas misled by Benchley’s book Jaws
find fault with
support
Sharks:
Dangerous or Endangered?
Para.____ +Para.____
_____________
Para.____ + Para. ___
_______________
Para.____
More people want to
_________________________.
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2
3
endangered
protect sharks from extinction
dangerous
4
5
specific
general
Activity 4: Read for structure and text types
How does the author achieve his purpose of writing?
put forward a
question
make analyses
draw a concluslon
Exposition
If we think an animal is a danger to us, should we deprive ( /d??pra?v/剥夺) them of their right to living with us on the planet?
Activity 5: Read for values
看到一个女人在一片黑暗的大海中游泳
被拽到水下
把……同……作比较
害怕
开场
获奖
害怕;惊忍
捕捞…
全世界
由于;因为
切掉;切断;使隔绝
对……有想不到的影响
see a woman swimming in a dark sea
be pulled underwater
compare ... with/to
in fear
the opening scene
win/get/receive/gain an award
be scared / frightened / afraid of
fish for
around /all over /throught the world
due to /because of
cut off
have an unexpected effect upon...
P82-83
以……为根据
碰见;偶然遇到
用某物覆盖某物
引起改变而不是/代替
相反;颠倒
从那天起
错误地；无意中
保护它们免遭灭绝
提高人们对保护鲨鱼的意识
努力做某事
告知某人某事
推荐……给某人
把……视为…
be based on
come across
cover sth with sth
cause a change rather than /instead of
the other way round /around
from that day on
by mistake
protect them from extinction
raise (people’s) awareness of shark protection
fight to do sth
inform sb about /of sth
recommend...to sb
consider ... as
P82-83

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