Unit3 Warming up, Reading
Teaching Goals:
1. To arouse Ss’ interest in animals and plants living under the sea.
2. To develop Ss’ reading ability.
3. To appreciate how the writer describes movements.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1. Leading-in
Purpose: To arouse Ss’ interest in the content of this unit.
1. Ask Ss to collect information about sea animals and plants and answer the following question.
Can you name some animals and plants living under the sea? What’s you favorite? Speak about it.
2. Ask Ss to collect information about whales and answer the following question.
(1) Are whales fish? How do you know?
(2) What is a killer whale? What do you know about it?
Step 2. Warming up
Purpose: To get Ss to know something about the content of this unit.
Get two or three Ss to talk about their favorite animals or plants under the sea. And ask Ss to answer the following question.
From where did you learn this?
Ask Ss to watch a video and look at the pictures of the animals under the sea
Step 3. Pre-reading
Purpose: To get the Ss prepared for reading the text.
Ask Ss to talk about whales. Teacher may say, “Today, we are gong to read a story of a large animal living in the sea, a killer whale. Do you think whales are fish? Why do you say so? Then get one of two Ss to talk about whales.”
Ask Ss to look at the picture of Pre-reading and answer the following questions.
what do you think is happening?
Step 4. Fast reading
Purpose: To get Ss to read for the general idea.
Ask Ss to read the text fast and sum up the main idea of the text and do the true or false
Step 5. Intensive reading
Purpose: To develop Ss’ reading ability of scanning.
Do the multiple choice
Summary
Step 6. Discussion
Purpose: To develop Ss’ mentality of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
1. Ask Ss to answer the following questions and discuss them.
How do you feel after reading the text?
Should whale hunting be banned?
2. Ask Ss to make a dialogue according to the result of the discussion.
Step 7. Homework
Rewrite the reading text in the third person. Encourage Ss to use their own words.
Finish exercise on page22
课件26张PPT。Warming Up & ReadingUnit 3 Under the seaDolphins 海豚
Shark 鲨鱼
Baleen whalesAngel fish
天使鱼sea-turtle 海龟sea horse 海马Coral 珊瑚 jellyfish 水母Old Tom the Killer WhaleKiller whales (虎鲸) belong to toothed whales, who are the 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.Average lifespan: 50 to 80 years
Size: 7 to 9.7 m
Weight: up to 6 tonsWhat do you think is happening in
the picture?Read the introduction of the passage on
page 19 and then fill in the chart below. Clancy
A whaler
Anecdotes
At the beginning of the 20th century
Australia
Whalers, killer whales and
baleen whales
The killer whale helped the whalers to kill a baleen whaleBackground InformationDo the “True” or “False” exercises.The author believed the story
was truth at the very beginning.
2.The killer whale was throwing
itself out of the water and then
crashing down again just to play.
3.Old Tom swim by our boat, showing
us the way.Fast ReadingF TF 4.The whale caught by the killers died and its whole body was eaten by the killers.
5.James was afraid of being abandoned by us.
6.No one saved James, and he was killed by a shark.F TF Do exercise 2 on your paper1. The first story is mainly about ____.
A. a hunting experience of Old Tom
B. how Old Tom helped with whale
hunting
C. how the whalers killed a whale
D. how killer whales killed a whale
2. The second story was told to _____.
A. show killer whales were cruel hunters
B. entertain readers
C. show killer whales could protect and
save people in danger
D. show killer whales never harmed or
attacked people.3．Why did the killers throw themselves on top of the whale's blow--hole?
A．To protect the whale.
B．To help the whale run away.
C．To stop the whale breathing.4．The whalers returned home without the whale's body because .
A．it was too heavy to carry
B．they didn't catch the whale
C．it wouldn't float up to the surface for around 24 hours5．Old Tom helped James by .
A．hugging him in the water
B．keeping the shark away from James
C．holding up James in the waterRead the text carefully and fill in the blanks.watercrashedboattongueteamtopbreathingfleeingdraggeddepthsThe last whaling station in Australia closed
in 1978. Whales are now an endangered
species and protected by an international
ban, but some countries oppose the ban.
In groups discuss the reasons for and
against banning whaling.DiscussionHomework
Finish exercises on 22 Thank you！正误判断
1. The author believed the story was true at the very beginning.
2. The killer whale was throwing itself out of the water and then crashing down again just to play.
3. Old Tom swam by our boat, showing us the way.
4. The whale caught by the killers died and its whole body was eaten by the killers.
5. James was afraid of being abandoned by us.
6. No one saved James, and he was killed by a shark.
Ⅱ.Careful Reading:
根据课文排序
1．Help the whalers
(6)George started beating the water with his oar.
(5)Clancy jumped into the boat with the whalers.
(1)Clancy arrived at the whaling station.
(7)The killers started racing between our boat and the whale.
(3)Clancy heard a huge noise coming from the bay.
(2)Clancy was sorting out his accommodation.
(4)Clancy ran down to the shore.
(8)The man in the bow of the boat aimed the harpoon at the whale.
课文理解
1. The text is mainly about _____________.
A. the killer whales are easily trained
B. the killer whales can help the whalers catch the huge whales
C. the killer whales kill the whales for their food
D. the killer whales drag the whales under the water
2. Old Tom throws itself out of the water and then crashes down in order to_________________.
A. give the whalers information about a whale
B. tell the whalers it is hungry
C. help the whalers catch the whale
D. inform the whalers to run away
3._____________________killed the whale at last.
A. Old Tom B. The killer whales C. The author D. The whalers
4. Why did the whalers start turning the boat around to go home after the whale died?
A. Because they didn’t need a dead whale.
B. Because they couldn’t find the whale’s body.
C. Because they knew that the dead whale wouldn’t float up to the surface for around 24 hours.
D. They had to do this because it was too late.
5. The killer whale protected James by_______________________.
A. fighting the shark B. killing the shark
C. preventing the shark going closer D. dragging him back
6. We can infer from the story that__________________.
A. the killer whales may be trained by the whalers
B. the killer whales want to help man catch the whales themselves
C. the killer whales need no training for helping the whalers
D. the killer根据课文内容进行填空，每空限填一词。
I had heard of the killers that helped whalers catch huge whales. When I worked at a whaling station, I__1__it many times. One afternoon, I heard a loud noise coming from the bay. We ran down to the shore__2__time to see an enormous animal throwing itself out of the water. George, one of the whales, told me that it was Old Tom, the killer, who was telling us there’s a whale. Another whaler__3__out to__4__a whale hunt. We immediately handed out into the bay, with Old Tom__5__us the way. Using a telescope we saw that several killers__6__the whales were throwing themselves on top of the whale's blow hole to stop it__7__, while others were stopping it diving or__8__out to sea. Then the man in the bow of the boat aimed at the whale and killed it. These killers__9__harmed or attacked people. Once when we were in the bay, the sea was__10__, for which James was carried away by waves. Worse still, there was a shark. Fortunately, Old Tom rescued James.
whales want to eat the whales after killing them
