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Unit 3 Under the sea Step 1 Warming up and lead－in Some animals: Dolphins海豚 Jellyfish水母 Sea Turtle 海龟 sea horse海马 sea star海星 coral珊瑚 shark鲨鱼

Step 2 Pre-reading Task1 Read English explanation and speak out the word it explains.根据英文解释猜词

1.

to escape by running away, especially because of danger or fear 2.

to stop doing something for a short time 3. when a group of people work well together 4. to shout something or make a loud noise, usually when you are angry,in pain or excited 5. to jump into water, especially with your head and arms going in first,or to move down under the water 6. to move something by pulling it along a surface, usually the ground 7. the distance down either from the top of something to the bottom, or to a distance below the top surface of something 8. to see something happen; a person who sees an event happening, especially a crime or an accident Task2 predict the text according to the title and the picture on page19.根据标题和图片预测文章大意

1.what does the title tell you? 2.Killer whales ___ whalers _____________.

Step 3 Skimming Read story1(Pra1-12) 1.The first anecdote describes a hunting experience about how the killer whales __________________. 2.find the main idea of each part. parts

part 1 paragraphs

1-6 main ideas

part 2 part 3 7,8,9 10,11,12

Step 4 careful reading Find out killer whales’ actions

before 1.Old Tom _____itself out of the water and ____ down again. the hunt 2.Old Tom ___ by the boat,showing the whalers the way. during 3.The killers were working as a _____. the hunt 4.Some threw themselves on ____of the whale’s blow-hole to stop it _____ and others stop it ______and ________out to sea. after the 5.They dragged the body down to the __ of the sea. hunt

Step 5 Read story2(Pra13-19)

1.The second one tells about how a killer whale___ and ___ James, a whaler. 2.How old Tom protected James? Not let the shark ___.Hold James ___ and ___James_________ Task3 comprehension(题型：主旨大意) 1 The first anecdote is mainly about A. About a hunting experience of old Tom. B. About how the killer whales helps the whalers to hunt a whale. C. About how the whalers killed Old Tom. D. About how the killer whales killed the whales. 2 What’s the main idea of the second anecdote? A. Fierce killers, like Old Tom, could protect people. B. James was washed off the boat. C. It was hard to handle the boat in rough sea. D. Old Tom rescued James from other killers. 3 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 whales want to eat the whales after killing them Step6 smmary The passage consists of___anecdotes written by Clancy.they are mainly about how old Tom helped the whales_________and__________________ Step7discussion

The last whaling station in Australia closed in 1978.Whales are now an endangered species and protected by an international ban on whaling，but some countries oppose the ban.In groups discuss the reasons for and against banning whaling. Step8 Homework 1．Prepare to retell the whole text with the key words. 2．Write a short summary of the whole text in about 30 words.