Unit 3 Under the Sea
Reading Old Tom the Killer Whale
教学设计：本节课本着让大部分同学都参与到学习与思考的过程中去的原则，设计了各个环节，阅读分为fast reading和careful reading,默读和大声朗读相结合。阅读题目由浅到深，由易到难，环环相扣，教学环节设计合理，紧凑。以下是教师教学的设计过程：
Step 1 Greetings
设计意图: 以猜谜形式引导学生对本节课内容的了解，提高学生学习热情。
At the beginning of class, the teacher gives the students a puzzle.
T: Hello, boys and girls！My names begin with W and end with E. I am the largest animal in the world and I live in the sea. I have beautiful blue skin. And no part of my body is thin. I'm not a fish but I breathe the air. I don’t have much hair. Men sometimes want to catch me for my body, I have huge fins I don't have feet. Who am I? I am......？
S: I am a whale.
Step 2 Learning Aims:
1. To practice your ability of comprehension by skimming and scanning.
2. To know something about whaling and killer whales.
3. To think about the relationship between animals and humans
Step 2 Warming-up
Brainstorm: Have you seen plants and animals that live under the sea? Where did you see them?
设计意图：使学生加深对海洋及海洋生物的了解。导入到本节课话题。
Suggested answers: on a snorkeling trip, at an aquarium, on a boat tour, in books, in films, on TV programs, on the Internet…
Step 3 Pre-reading
设计意图：由lovely animals引到cruel and giant animals，进而了解虎鲸和故事背景。
Look at the picture on Page19 in your book and read the material on the left side of it. Then fill the blanks in the form.
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
（红色部分为答案。）
Step 4 While-reading
设计意图：本着阅读过程由整体到细节，由简单到复杂，由浅入深的原则设计阅读题目。先是整体上的main idea,然后是捕鲸过程的排序，及更细致的了解虎鲸如何帮助捕鲸人和虎鲸那样做的目的。并且是两个故事分别理解，学生思维就很清晰。
1. Fast reading
Read the text quickly and silently and get the main ideas of the two anecdotes.
The first anecdote describes a _____________ experience about how the killer whales __________the whalers to _______ _______ _________.
The second one tells about how a killer whale _________ and _________James, a whaler.
Suggested Answers: hunting; helped; hunt a whale; protected; saved;
2. Careful reading
Read the text carefully this time one part by one part.
1. Read part one and do exercises below.
Exercise 1: Put the following sentences in right order. The first one has been given to you.
( ) George started beating the water with his oar.
( ) Clancy jumped into the boat with the whalers.
( 1 ) Clancy arrived at the whaling station.
( ) The killers started racing between our boat and the Whale.
( ) Clancy heard a huge noise coming from the bay.
( ) Clancy was sorting out his accommodation.
( ) Clancy ran down to the shore.
( ) The man in the bow of the boat aimed the harpoon at the whale.
Suggested Answers: 65173248
Exercise 2: How did the killers help the whalers?
Killers' activities
What’s the purpose of killers’ activities
1. Old Tom ___________ itself out of the water and __________ down again.
To tell the whalers there’s a whale out there.
2. Old Tom ______ by the boat.
To show the whalers the way to the hunt.
3. They threw themselves on _______of the whale’s blow-hole to stop it ____________ and others stop it _________and ________out to sea.
To gain the time for the whaler and make the whale tired.
4. They dragged the body down to the __________ of the sea.
To have a good feed on lips and tongue.
(提示学生如何回答purpose 这样的题目。)
Read Part 2 and answer questions:
1. What is the dangerous situation of James in the second story?
James was washed off the boat and was carried further and further. And there was a shark nearby.
2. How did Old Tom help James?
Old Tom kept the shark away and then held firmly James up in the water.
(红色部分为答案)
Step 5 Discussion
设计意图:在了解了虎鲸,及虎鲸与人类的关系之后,引到捕鲸这个话题上来,并让学生讨论反对捕鲸的原因和支持捕鲸的原因。这一环节主要是让学生积极参与讨论，动脑思考，合作学习，学习大胆的表达自己的感想。并提高学生对保护濒危动物的意识。
The last whaling station in Australia closed in 1978. They are now protected by an international ban on whaling. However, some countries oppose the ban.
In groups, discuss the reasons for or against banning whaling.
Give students some useful expressions:
As far as I’m concerned, / In my opinion, /From my point of view,
Personally, I think, /It would seem to me that…
As far as I’m able to judge, /As I know, /Frankly, I think, I am for /against banning whaling, because…
(Teacher’s requirements:
1. Work in groups to decide whether you are for or against it.
2. Try to think about the reasons and write them down.
3. Show your answers with us.)→ To tell students how to complete their task.
The reasons for banning whaling:
●The number of whales is decreasing recently. / It’s an endangered species.
●It’s cruel to kill the whales.
●Whaling will destroy the balance of nature.
●Animals are human’s friends, so we should live with them in harmony.
The reasons against banning whaling:
●Whales can provide more meat to eat.
●Whaling can help whalers make money.
●Whaling can satisfy someone’s thirst to conquer nature.
●It’s a tradition in some country to catch and kill whales.
(红色部分为参考答案)
Step 6 Summary
设计意图：1.结合课文所学，完成语法填空。引导学生如何做语法填空，并注意赋分。与高考题目相结合，优化本节课所学。
2.先让学生自己做，然后用展台展示学生答案，改错，并赋分。最后让学生大声朗读，并背过。
Old Tom _______ (throw) itself out of the water and crashed down again to show that there was a baleen whale there. He swam by the boat, _________ (lead) us the way. As we got__________(close), I could see a baleen whale _________________(attack) by a pack of about six other killers. They were working as a team. Some of the killers stopped it breathing and others were stopping it fleeing. One whaler used the harpoon to hit it, _______ made the whale die soon. The killer whales dragged the whales into the _________(deep) of the sea and had a good feed _____ its tips and tongue.
One day, James was washed off the boat. The sea was so rough that James was very __________ (terrify) of being abandoned. _____________ (fortunate), Old Tom came to save him. It took over half ______ hour to get the boat back to James. And when we approached him, I saw him being held up in the water by Old Tom.
Suggested Answers: threw, leading, closer, being attacked, which, depths, on, terrified, Fortunately, an
Step 7 Homework
a. Retell the two stories to your friends
b. Write a short composition about banning whaling.
Unit 3 Under the Sea
Reading Old Tom the Killer Whale
评测练习：在课文理解之后，进行了针对于全文的summary。设计时秉承着以下的目标：
1.结合课文所学，完成语法填空。引导学生如何做语法填空，并注意赋分。与高考题目相结合，优化本节课所学。
2.挖空设计合理，完全符合高考题目的设计要求。10个空含有动词不规则变化，冠词，定语从句，非谓语（2个），形容词比较级，名词变复数，介词，形容词，副词
3.先让学生自己做，然后用展台展示学生答案，改错，并赋分。最后让学生大声朗读，并背过。
Old Tom _______ (throw) itself out of the water and crashed down again to show that there was a baleen whale there. He swam by the boat, _________ (lead) us the way. As we got__________(close), I could see a baleen whale _________________(attack) by a pack of about six other killers. They were working as a team. Some of the killers stopped it breathing and others were stopping it fleeing. One whaler used the harpoon to hit it, _______ made the whale die soon. The killer whales dragged the whales into the _________(deep) of the sea and had a good feed _____ its tips and tongue.
One day, James was washed off the boat. The sea was so rough that James was very __________ (terrify) of being abandoned. _____________ (fortunate), Old Tom came to save him. It took over half ______ hour to get the boat back to James. And when we approached him, I saw him being held up in the water by Old Tom.
Suggested Answers: threw, leading, closer, being attacked, which, depths, on, terrified, Fortunately, an
