高中英语瓶中求救Rescue in a Bottle公开课PPT课件.ppt

Rescue in a Bottle Rescue in a bottle Rescue in a bottle They were rescued! A key prop A possible ending : It was the bottle that rescued them! recalls Design an ending echoing the theme. The ending An ending , echoing the title or the beginning ,coherences to the above context and reaffirms the integrity of the whole story. 1 预设结局 Correspond to the theme 前情提示 Background of the story The elements of a story: who/ what/ when/ where /how 2 Rescue in a Bottle Curtis Whitson had rafted down the Arroyo Seco, a river in central California, several times before. This year, Curtis Whitson knew the water-fall was coming. He figured he would get out of his raft into the shallow water, get down the rocks along ropes on either side of the falls, and continue on his way, as he had on a previous trip. But this year was different. Heavy snow and spring rains had turned the usually manageable falls into something fierce. And this year, instead of his friends, Whitson’s companions were his girlfriend, Krystal Ramirez, and his 13-year-old son, Hunter. As the three of them approached the falls late in the afternoon of the third day of their camping trip, Whitson could tell from the increasing roar of water in the narrowing canyon(峡谷) that they were in serious trouble. There was no way they’d be able to get down the rocks as planned. “The water was just roaring through there with tremendous force,” recalls Whitson, 45. They had no smart phone service, and they hadn’t seen a single person in the past three days. And Whitson knew that they’d be sharing the ground there with rattlesnakes and mountain lions. As he was thinking what to do, Whitson hit on a bit of luck---he heard voices coming from the other side of the falls. He yelled, but the sound of the rushing water drowned him out. “We have to get these people a message,” Whitson thought. He grabbed a stick and pulled out his pocketknife to carve “Help” in it. Then h