unit 3 Under the sea period 1 warming up and reading

Unit
3
Under
the
Sea
Teaching
Design
The
Period
1
Warming
up
&
Reading
Teaching
goals
1.
Target
language
a.
important
words
and
phrases
anecdote,
annual,
wi
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accommodation,
shore,
opposite,
yell,
pause,
telescope,
teamwork,
diving,
flee,
drag,
depth,
urge,
abandon
be
about
to
do,
ahead
of,
even
though,
stop…from…,
help
out,
b.
Important
sentence
structure
1.
She
felt
embarrassed
and
quickly
told
him
to
go.
2.
Claire
thought
it
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ridiculous
to
be
offered
sympathy
by
a
robot.
3.
By
the
amused
and
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look
on
her
face,
Claire
knew
that
Gladys
thought
she
was
having
an
affair.
2.
Ability
goals
Help
students
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to
learn
about
life
under
the
sea,
mainly
the
whale
and
killer
whale.
3.
Learning
ability
goals
Enable
students
to
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realize
science
fiction
reflects
scientific
thought;
a
fiction
of
things-to-come
based
on
things-on-hand.
Teaching
important
points
Improve
the
students’
reading
ability
Teaching
difficult
points
How
to
make
the
students
understand
the
reading
text
better.
Make
the
students
realize
the
importance
of
protecting
animals.
Teaching
methods
Discussing,
explaining,
reading
and
practicing
Teaching
aids
The
multimedia
computer
Teaching
procedures
&
ways
Step
1
Deal
with
Warming
up.
Brainstorm:
Have
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seen
plants
and
animals
that
live
under
the
sea
Where
did
you
see
them
Find
out
from
your
classmates
where
the
saw
them
Suggested
answers
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on
a
snorkelling
trip,
at
an
aquarium,
on
a
boat
tour,
in
books,
in
films,
on
TV
programs,
on
the
Internet.
Appreciate
the
video
about
the
whale
http://v./v_show/id_XMjQ4MDI0.html
Step
2
Background
Information
Classification
of
whales
There
are
two
types
of
whales
alive
today:
toothed
whales
(齿鲸类)
and
baleen
whales(须鲸类).
Toothed
whales
have
te
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and
a
single
blowhole.
They
feed
on
eat
fish
and
other
sea
mammals.
Baleen
whales
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are
larger
than
toothed
whales.
They
are
filter
feeders
(滤食者)
that
use
baleen
to
sieve
(过滤)
food,
and
have
two
blowholes.
Killer
whales
Killer
whale
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belong
to
toothed
whales,
who
are
the
largest
of
the
dolphins
and
king
of
the
sea,
biggest
carnivore(食肉动物)
of
the
sea,
killing
all
kinds
of
animals
in
the
sea,
even
the
huge
blue
whale,
like
tigers
on
land,
working
in
a
team.
Baleen
whales
Baleen
whales
are
c
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by
having
baleen
plates
for
filtering
food
from
water,
rather
than
having
teeth.
Baleen
whales
are
generally
larger
than
toothed
whales,
and
females
are
larger
than
males.
This
group
includes
the
largest
known
animal
species,
the
Blue
Whale.
Step
3
Pre-reading
Look
at
the
picture
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on
Page19
in
your
book
and
read
the
material
on
the
left
side
of
it.
Then
fill
the
blanks
in
the
form.
Author
Job
Style
Place
Time
Main
idea
Suggested
answers:
Author
An
old
man,
Clancy
Job
A
whaler
Style
Anecdotes
Place
Australia
Time
At
the
beginning
of
the
20th
century
Main
idea
The
killer
whale
help
people
to
hunt
baleen
whales
Step
4
Reading
Fast
reading
Look
through
the
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quickly,
and
put
the
events
in
the
reading
passage
into
the
right
order
according
to
the
timeline.
_____1.The
killer
whale
guided
the
team
to
hunt.
_____2.He
saw
a
huge
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animal
in
the
water
which
was
Old
Tom,
the
killer
whale.
_____3.The
men
returned
for
the
baleen
whale
the
next
day.
_____4.Clancy
and
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men
killed
the
baleen
whale
with
the
help
of
the
killer.
_____5.The
killers
ate
the
lips
and
tongue
of
the
baleen
whale.
_____6.He
heard
a
loud
noise
coming
from
the
bay.
_____7.The
men
went
to
the
boat
and
headed
out
for
a
whale
hunt.
_____8.Clancy
arrived
at
the
whaling
station.
Suggested
answer:
5,3,8,6,7,2,4,1
Careful
reading
Answer
questions
In
pairs
answer
the
questions.
What
evidence
was
there
that
Old
Tom
was
helping
the
whalers
out
Old
Tom
let
the
wha
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know
that
there
was
a
baleen
whale
bearby;
he
showed
them
the
way
to
the
whale.
What
other
anim
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did
the
author
compare
the
killer
whales
with
Why
do
you
think
the
killer
whales
behaved
like
this
Dogs.
Because
they
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that,
together
with
the
whalers;
they
would
soon
kill
the
baleen
whale
and
get
a
good
feed.
Why
did
George
think
that
the
killer
whales
worked
as
a
team
Because
he
could
see
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some
of
the
killers
were
throwing
themselves
on
top
of
the
whaler’s
blowhole
while
others
are
preventing
diving
or
fleeing
out
to
sea.
Why
did
the
whales
allow
the
killer
whales
to
drag
the
whale
away
Because
they
k
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the
killer
whales
would
leave
the
rest
of
the
body
to
them.
How
did
Old
Tom
help
James
Why
do
you
think
he
did
this
Old
Tom
prevented
J
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from
drowning.
Old
Tom
wanted
to
help
his
human
friends.
Post-reading
Role
play
The
teacher
divides
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the
students
into
there
groups
in
class
and
makes
each
group
play
a
different
role.
There
are
three
roles
in
the
play,
the
whaler,
the
baleen
and
the
killer
whale.
The
students
make
dialogues
between
the
whaler
and
the
baleen,
the
whaler
and
the
killer,
the
baleen
and
the
killer.(
In
this
part,
the
aim
is
to
arouse
the
interest
about
English
class.)
Discussion
The
teacher
plays
th
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video
and
asks
the
question
whether
human
being
should
be
allowed
to
kill
the
whales
and
how
to
protect
the
whales.
Then
the
teacher
gives
students
5
minutes
to
discuss
it
and
the
students
state
their
opinion.(
The
aim
of
this
part
is
to
make
students
realize
the
importance
of
protecting
animals.)
Step
5
Homework
Finish
the
given
exercise.