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Unit 3 Under the sea Pre-reading What do you think is happening in the picture? The reading passage is two anecdotes written by an old man called Clancy. They are about the days when Clancy was a whaler and hunted whales on the south-eastern coast of Australia at the beginning of the 20th century. It was a time when the killer whales, or “killers” as they were then called, helped the whalers catch the baleen whales that were on their annual migration. Reading OLD TOM THE KILLER WHALE I was 16 when I began work in June 1902 at the whaling station. I had heard of the killers that every year h