《Learning about Language》精品PPT课件优质课下载

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So the following day, when the father saw a stranger approach in his canoe he urged the hunter to marry Sedna, saying that his daughter would make a good wife. The hunter replied that he had in fact come to ask Sedna to marry him. He promised to provide her with plenty of food ,furs for clothes and blankets. Finally Sedna agreed to marry him and he took her away in his canoe across the waters to his island.

When they arrived at the island, Sedna, shocked, dicovered that her husband was not a man, but a sea bird. No matter how angry she felt, she had no choice but to stay with him.

Time went by, but Sedna never became used to the bird man. She felt unhappy and spent her days crying and calling her father's name. In the meantime her father began to feel guilty about forcing his daughter to marry against her will. So as soon as her cries reached her father, he decided to go in search of her.

With much difficulty, he arrived.

The bird man was away hunting

and Sedna was standing on the

shore. He asked his daughter for

forgiveness and they set off home.

Later that day the bird man returned from fishing. Finding his wife was no longer there, he let out cries of anger and flew off in the direction of the canoe. He soon caught up with it and ordered the old man to give his wife back. When Sedna's father refused, he flapped his wings so hard that the calm warter suddenly turned into huge waves. Can you guess what happened next?

Sedna's father was so scared that he threw Sedna into the sea, screaming, “Here she is, take her.” Sedna, terrified, tried to hang on to the side of the canoe. But her father used his sharp knife to cut off her fingers. As her fingers were sinking to the bottom of the ocean, they turned into seals, whales and other large sea mammals. And Sedna, when she could no longer fight to keep herself alive, sank to the bottom too, where she became the goddess of the sea.

What do you think of

Sedna's father?

It 's foolish of him _________ (force) his daughter _________(marry) someone randomly.

It's also cruel of him ______ (cut) off his daughter's fingers.

to force

to marry

to cut

1. It is interesting _________(read) such a story, but

it's annoying _________ (see) what the father did

to his daughter.

2. I find it a little difficult for me _____________

(understand) the legend, so I decide ________(read)

it for a second time.

3. It's the first story I have ever read _______(tell) me

something about the sea goddess. And I am the