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Unit 3 Under the sea Period 1 Reading(1) Old Tom the Killer Whale Teaching Aims: 1. Read a passage about robot and get some information from it. 2. Practise the skills of careful-reading and fast-reading. Procedure: Step 1. Warming up (4 minutes) 1.Tell students we are on a snorkeling trip under the sea and will come across a great variety of marine animals and plants：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. 2.In groups,make a list of plants and animals that live under the sea. Background 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 a baleen whale Step 2. Fast--reading (17 minutes) 1. Ask the students to read the passage quickly within 8 minutes and do exercise 1and 2 on page43 in Yingzaiketang . 2. Check the answers. Ask one student to write his or her answers on the blackboard. Show the right answers and ask students to check them. Step 3. Careful-reading (18 minutes) 1. Ask students to read Part 1 of the reading passage and find out before the hunt，what did Old Tom do and how did the whalers react? Suggested answers：Old Tom threw itself out of the water，then crashed down again and swam by the boat，showing the whalers the way. One whaler yelled out and George ran ahead of clancy.Clancy raced after him.They jumped into the boat with the other whalers and headed out into the bay. Next，find out during the hunt and after the hunt，what did the killer whales do and how did the whalers react? Suggested answers：A pack of killers are throwing themselves on top of the whales blow－hole to stop it breathing；and some others are stopping it fleeing out to sea.The killers started racing between the whalers boat and the whale jus