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　　M7 Unit 3 Under the sea
　　Reading
　　Teaching material:  NSEFC Boonit 3
　　Teaching Aims
　　Enable the students to grasp and remember the detailed information of the reading material.
　　Teaching Important & Difficult Points
　　How to help the students to grasp and remember the detailed information of the reading material.
　　Teaching aids: 
　　a tape recorder, a projector, slides and pictures
　　Teaching Procedure
　　Step1 Warming up
　　Have you seen plants and animals that live under the sea?
　　Where did you see them?
　　Step 2 Pre-reading
　　Writer Clancy
　　Vocation A whaler
　　Style Anecdotes
　　time At the beginning for the 20th century
　　Place Australia
　　Main idea The killer whale help people to kill baleen whale
　　Step 3 Scanning
　　Scan the text, and fill in the blanks with names mentioned in the text.
　　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 and further away from the whalers.
　　6. __________knew that Old Tom would protect James.
　　Keys: 1.Clancy 2. George 3. Old Tom 4. Jack 5. James 6. Red
　　Step 4 Skimming
　　Skim the text and put the following sentences into a right order.
　　(         ) George started beating the water with his oar
　　(        ) Clancy jumped into the boat with the whalers.
　　(        ) 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
　　Keys: 65173248
　　Step 5 Careful reading
　　Read the passage carefully and do the true or false questions.
　　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.
　　6. Old Tom didn’t help out James.
　　Keys: FTTFFF
　　Step 6 Detailed reading
　　Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions.
　　1. What evidence was there that Old Tom was helping out the whalers?
　　Old Tom let the whalers know that there was a baleen whale nearby;
　　He showed them the way to the whale
　　Work as a team
　　2. What other animals did the author compare the killer whales with?
　　Dogs.
　　3. “The killers started racing between our boat and the whale just like a pack of excited dogs.” why do you think the killer whales behave like this?
　　Because they knew that, together with the whalers, they would soon kill the baleen whale and get a good feed.
　　4. Why did George think that the killer whales worked as a team?
　　Because he could see that some of the killers were throwing themselves on top of the whale’s blow hole while others were preventing it from swimming out to sea.
　　5. Why do you think the whalers allowed the killer whales to drag the whale under the water to feed on its lips and tongue?
　　Because they knew the Killer Whales would leave the rest of the body to them.
　　6. Why did the whalers return home without the whale’s body?
　　Because the body would not float to the surface until about 24 hours later.
　　7. How do you think Red felt about the killer whales?
　　Red felt good about the Killer Whales. He appreciated the working relationship that the whalers had with the Killer Whales.
　　8. How did Old Tom help James? Why do you think he did this?