人教新课标选修7 Unit 3 Under the sea Reading 教学设计.docVIP

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? Make sure students know some basic information about the whales:? 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 the baleen whales.? Step3. Skimming? Ask students 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 talks about 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? Ask students to read Para 2 to Para 6 and find out before the hunt: what did Old Tom do and what did whalers r