Chapter 3 Tales of the Sea

1. New Era Interactive English Level 3 Chapter 3 Tales of the Sea

2. Contents Teaching Objectives Understand Reading One Reading Skills Understand Reading Two Writing Skills Writing Skills

3. Reading Two The Story of the Titanic: “A Night to Remember”

4. Teaching Objectives

5. Warm-up Activities What does the music and pictures remind you of ? How much do you know about the Titanic and its loss?

6. About the ship White star line Maiden voyage Rediscover the Titanic Rediscover the Titanic

7. The Owner of Titanic At the turn of the century white star line was one of the Two largest shipping companies in the Great Britain. By 1902 white star had Been purchased by J. Piermont Morgan's International mercantile marine company (IMMC) whose dream was to monopolize North Atlantic shipping, eliminating competition and Standardize the cost of travel and freight.

8. To win the competition, Joseph Bruce Ismay decided to replace The older liners operating between Southampton and New York with a new class of Ocean Giants:Oceanic, Titanic and Britannic. each ship would Hold the title, "largest liner in the world."

9. 3,000 men labored for 2 years to complete the largest man made moving object in the world. Each of  Titanic's engines were the size of a 3 story house. She weighed 66,000 tons and was equivalent in length to four city blocks. Her height from bridge to keel was equal to a ten story building.

10. The Largest Ship Titanic was slightly larger than the WWII Aircraft Carrier, USS Saratoga.

11. At 882feet,It was longer than New York's mammoth skyscraper, the Woolworth Building by one hundred and thirty feet. length 269 m breadth 28 m

12. The floating palace surpassed anything on the North Atlantic in size and luxury

13. Double- bottom and sixteen watertight compartments Watertight doors by an electric switch on the bridge Should any two of the largest compartments become flooded, the liner could remain afloat indefinitely. The myth of “unsinkable ”was thus born.

14. Passenger entertainments a squash racquet court, a Turkish bath, a fully equipped gymnasium, a swimming pool, a Parisian style café and libraries. Four electric elevators (three in first and one in second class) and, deluxe suites with a private promenade for the wealthiest passengers The Luxurious Ship

16. Titanic's Grand Staircase It was here that many of Titanic's passengers gathered prior to the launching of the lifeboats.

17. Titanic's Gymnasium John Jacob Astor and his wife Madeline were sitting here awaiting the loading of the lifeboats.

18. First Class Stateroom First Class enjoyed amenities that were unheard of on most other liners of her day

19. A Voyage to Eternity • Titanic, the world's largest ship, and pride • of the White Star Line, sank on April 15th, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage, with the tragic loss of around 1,500 lives.

20. Titanic started from Southampton, England, and stopped at Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland to pick up passengers. Her destination was New York. She sank 1000 miles due east of Boston, Massachusetts, and 375 miles southeast of St. John's, Newfoundland.

21. The Outline • Titanic was damaged when it hit an iceberg.(1-9) • Few realized what had happened.(10-12) • Capitan Smith was worried about the situation of the ship(13-24) • Titanic was sinking and 2.200 people were n jeopardy. (23-26) • Six watertight compartments were ruptured • Over two hundred feet of the ship were opened to the sea • Shortage of lifeboats

22. Three Important Figures Edward John Smith Aged 62, the Captain of the Titanic. Thomas Andrews Managing director of Harland & Wolff Bruce Ismay managing director of the White Star Line.

23. Language Study

24. Murdoch ordered “hard aport”, when the bow began to swing, his intention to bring the stern away from the iceberg, but it was too late.(para.2) Murdoch ordered “hard aport”, when the bow began to swing, intending to bring the stern away from the iceberg, but it was too late.

25. Have sth in one’s mind as a plan or purpose Intended adj. intend v. (Para2) intention n. ～to do ～sb/sth to do Well-intended ill-intended intended target ～victim ～destination With the ～of doing Have no ～ of doing Intention to do

26. Examples: I have no intention of helping him after what he said to me. The boy went to the library everyday with the intention of meeting the girl. I did not intend her to read the novel until it was finished. It’s our intention to be the Number one sponsors for Olympic games.

27. to come together with violent, direct impact Collide vi. Collide with Collision n. be in /come into ～

28. Cf. bump vt. To strike or collide with To collide with a loud, harsh, usually metallic noise clash vi. bang vi. To crash noisily against or into something : crash vi. To break violently or noisily

29. let's practice 1.两辆汽车轰然相撞。 Two cars crashed into each other. 2.在跑过拐角时，他撞上了另一个人。 In running around the corner, he collided with another man. 3.我的头撞在了桌角上。 I bumped my head on the edge of the table. 4.他们的剑相撞铿然作响。 Their swords clashed.

30. Sealed the Titanic’s doom. (para.3) Decided its destruction. doom vt. Doomsday 世界末日 be doomed to (sth/to do) Their marriage is doomed to failure. The experiment is doomed to fail.

31. Like all ships, the Titanic turned more quickly the greater her forward Motion.(Para.3) Omission is employed here, thus sentence order changes. Like all ships, the more quickly the Titanic turned, the greater her forward motion was.

32. Had the Titanic proceeded ahead and turned, it is most likely that she would have avoided hitting the iceberg all together.(para.3) Subjunctive sentence If the Titanic had proceeded ahead and turned, it is most likely that she would have avoided hitting the iceberg all together.

33. proceed vi. (Para.3) To begin to carry on an action or a process To go forward or onward especially after an interruption proceed (to do ) proceed (to/with) As soon as he comes in, he proceeds to tell us his troubles. proceed to the destination Proceed with the story

34. He was now faced with the fact that his ship had been damaged, how seriously was uncertain yet.(para.9) Omission is employed He was now faced with the fact that his Ship had been damaged, how seriously It had been damaged was uncertain yet.

35. be faced with (Para.9) face up to Confront with 面临 Be brave enough to accept and deal with After graduation, the young man is faced with a difficult choice. She must face up to the fact that she is no longer young.

36. Aside from a mild fever, the patient feels fine. except for; excluding aside from (Para.10) apart from Apart from a few scratches, the car was undamaged. with the exception of; besides

37. to meet by chance 不期而遇 come across bump into (Para.14) run into 想不到能在异乡的街头与你不期而遇。 It’s a surprise to run into (bump into/come across) you on the street of foreign land.

38. (un)aware adj. (Para.24) (un)aware+ of (un)aware+ that She seems unaware of the potential danger. The old man remained unaware that his son had been killed in the war. The young man was quite aware of his love to the girl.

39. Exercise Fill in the blanks with the words given below. Change the form where necessary. with the intention of (un)aware of bump into be faced with aside from collide with proceed be doomed to

40. 1. ___________ the difficulty, I went ahead. Unaware of 2. The young man went to the park day after day __________________ seeing the girl again. with the intention of 3. The commander knew from the beginning that the war___________ to fail. was doomed 4. After a summer’s slump,the business_________ as usual. proceeded

41. 5. When walking out of the restaurant, the lady ____________her English teacher in the university. bumped into 6. The man ______________the situation that he was fired and did not know how to tell his wife. was faced with 7. Because of the horrible weather, the train ___________ another one near the destination. collide with 8. __________his height, the girl was satisfied with his boy friend. Aside from

42. Reading Skills

43. Faster Reading Strategies Preview Skim Cluster

44. Preview To preview a reading, read the first two paragraphs (they are usually topic paragraphs), the first sentence of the remaining paragraphs (usually topic sentence), and the entire last two paragraphs of a reading(usually concluding part). This will give you a general idea of the reading.

45. Skim To get the general idea of a reading, one could also skim. To skim a reading, move your eyes quickly across the page and read only a few key words per line.

46. Cluster To read in cluster, you need to read three or four words a time (a sentence group), rather than word by word. Examples: Since the day// he left home for school, her mother// had been missing him// all the time.

47. Writing Skills

48. Mixing Together Principles: 1. Choose this technique when you want to point out several differences between two things or people, which have the same types or categories of details, without discussing them in great detail. 2. Two items are compared by going back and forth between the two. You merely point out a special feature of one item and then state how the other differs from it in that aspect.

49. Writing Practice Write a composition comparing either of these: the different ways of job-hunting for today’s college graduates and those twenty years ago American students and Chinese students applying the technique of mixing together. You should write at least 150 words.

50. Translation skills Direct and indirect translation