Book 7 Unit 3 Under the Sea

Ⅰteaching contents

Book 7 Unit 3 under the sea

Reading: Old Tom The Killer Whale

ⅡTeaching aims

1. Language goals

a. Enable students to get familiar with the new words in the text.

b. Enable students to use the phrases to appeal to people to protect sea animals.

2. Ability goals

a. Enable students to master the method of reading, namely skimming and scanning.

b. Enable students to express his or her own opinions in English.

3. Emotion and attitude

a. Lead students to understand the significance of protecting sea animals.

Ⅲ Key points and difficulties

a. Help students get the main idea of the passage and understand the significance of protecting wild animals.

b. Help students improve the skills of scanning and skimming.

Ⅳ Teaching methods

a. task-based method

b. fast-reading and careful-reading

c. group competition

Ⅴ Teaching procedures

Step 1 warming up and lead-in

Show students a photo of me taken in an aquarium and other photos of animals under the sea taken in the aquarium by myself.

Step 2 fast-reading

Fill in the form of the brief introduction of the passage

Writer

Occupation

Style

Time

Place

Main idea 1.The killer whales ______the whalers catch the baleen whales.

2.The killer whales _________them from the shark.

Step 3 careful-reading

Task 1: True & False

1. There was no evidence that Old Tom was helping out the whalers. 

2. The author compares the killer whales with a dog. 

3. The killer whales worked as a team.

4. The killer whales dragged the whale under the water to feed on its body. 

5. The whalers returned home with the whale’s body. 

Task 2: Choose the best answer.

1．The author mainly tells us in the text that the killer whales ________. 

A．are easily trained

B．can help the whalers catch whales and protect people

C．kill the whales for food

D．are cruel to other whales

2．Old Tom came to the shore to ________. 

A．tell the whalers there was a whale

B．tell the whalers it was hungry

C．show that it was catching a whale

D．inform the whalers to run away

3．Why did the whalers go home after the whale died? (          )

A．Because it was too late.

B．Because they didn’t need a dead whale.

C．Because they couldn’t find the whale’s body.

D．Because the dead body would float up the next day.

4．Old Tom threw itself out of the water and then crashed down in order to ________. 

A．give the whalers the information about a whale

B．tell the whalers it was hungry

C．help the whalers catch the whale

D．inform the whalers to run away

Step 4 post-reading

Fill in the following passage with proper words

The story is about how the killers helped whales catch huge whales. And it was when the author was working at the whaling station 1.____ he witnessed it with his own eyes.

Old Tom, one of the killers often led George, the author and other whalers to the spot, 2.______a pack of about six other killers 3._____________(attack) a whale. While some were throwing themselves on top of the whale's blow-hole to stop it 4.________(breathe), others were stopping it fleeing out to sea. And 5.______(final), when the whaler killed the whale with harpoon, they dragged the dead whale down into the 6._______(deep) of the sea and ate up its lips and tongue. After 24 hours, they brought it to the surface, 7.______(wait) for the whalers to bring in the body.

It is 8.__________ (astonish) to know Old Tom and the other killers never harmed or attacked people, instead, they helped and saved them when they were 9.____trouble. For example, when James was once washed off the boat and struggled in the water, it was Old Tom that held him up in the water 10.____ we got the boat back to James.

Step 5 discussion (presentation)

Watch a short video about the endangered whales and in groups discuss what we can do to protect whales.

Useful expressions

make laws/put a ban on…

protect…from being done

keep/prevent/stop…from being done

raise the awareness of…

Step 6 homework

1. Reorganize your suggestions and try to make it a short article.

2. Share your story with your friends