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　　人教新课标选修7 Unit 3 Under the sea Reading
　　Step1. Warming up and lead in
　　Tell students we are on a snorkeling trip under the sea and will come across a great variety of marine animals: dolphins, turtles, manatee, eels, octopus, squids, butterfly fish, kelp, sea star, angel fish, clown fish/ anemone fish, parrotfish, sea flower/ anemone, sea-slug, clam, coral, jellyfish, seahorse, shark etc.
　　Step2. Presentation
　　Mare students know some basic information about the whales:
　　Bacnd information
　　writer Clancy
　　career a whaler
　　writing style anecdotes
　　time at the beginning of the 20th century
　　place Australia
　　main character whalers, killer whales, the baleen whales
　　main idea the killer whales help the whalers to kill the baleen whales.
　　Step3. Skimming
　　Asdents to skim the passage quickly and answer the questions:
　　What is the first anecdote about? And how about the second one?
　　The first anecdote mainly talt that _______.
　　A. Clancy began to work at a whaling station.
　　B. The killer whales helped whalers to catch a baleen whale.
　　C. The killer whales hunted in a team and killed a baleen whale.
　　D. Old Tom showed whalers the way to a baleen whale.
　　Key: B.
　　The second anecdote: Old Tom saved a whaler James who was washed off the boat.
　　Step 4 Scanning
　　Fill in the following blanks with the proper names:
　　1. _______ was 16 years of age when he went to work at the whaling station.
　　2. ________ ordered Clancy to go to the boat as there was a whale out there in the bay.
　　3. ________ was swimming by the boat, showing the whalers the way.
　　4. _______ told Clancy that they would return the next day to bring in the body of the whale.
　　5. ______ was carried by the waves further away from the whalers.
　　6. _______ knew that Old Tom would protect James.
　　Keys: Clancy, George, Old Tom, Jack, James, Red.
　　Step 5 Careful Reading
　　Story Part 1
　　How to help
　　Asdents to read Para 2 to Para 6 and find out before the hunt: what did Old Tom do and what did whalers react?
　　Suggested answers: Old Tom threw itself out of the water, then crashed sown again and swam by the boat, showing us the way.
　　One whaler yelled out and George ran ahead of him. Clancy grabbed his boots and raced after him. They jumped into the boat and headed out into the bay.
　　Next, find out during the hunt and after the hunt, what did killer whales do and what did whalers react?
　　Suggested answers: A pack of killers are throwing themselves on the top of the whale’s blow-hole to stop it breathing; and some others are stopping it fleeing out to sea. The killers started racing between our boat and the whale just like a pack of excited dogs. Within a moment or two, its body was dragged down into the depths of the sea.
　　The man in the bow of the boat aimed the harpoon at the whale and then let it go to hit the spot.
　　Asdents to read the story part 1 again and put the following sentences into correct order:
　　a. George started beating the water with his oar.
　　b. Clancy grabbed his boots and races after George to the boat.
　　c. Clancy arrived at the whaling station.
　　d. The killers started racing between our boat and the whale.
　　e. Clancy heard a huge noise coming from the bay.
　　f. Clancy was sorting out his accommodation.
　　g. Clancy ran down to the shore.
　　h. The man in the bow of th