Unit3underthesea----reading导学案(人教版选修七)

Unit 3 under the sea ----reading 导学案（人教版选修七）

Unit 3 under the sea

Warming-up and reading (导学案)

step1 Warming-up

Have you seen plants and animals that live under the sea? Where did you see them?

Watch the photos and try to write down the name of the animals or the plants in your

exercise books.

step2. Pre-reading

1. Read the words in pre-reading on page 19 quickly and fill in the form.

writer

occupation

Type of the article (文体)

time

What happened

Step3. Glance through the two anecdotes and get the main idea of each anecdote.

1. What is the main idea of the first anecdote?

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.

2What’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.

step4 .Read these two anecdotes carefully and find out some verbs or verb phrases to do the

blank-filling worksheet

Anecdote one Before the hunt

The killer whale threw itself out of the

_____ and then _______ down again.

It swam by the_____, showing the whalers

the way.

During the hunt

The killers were working as a _____.

Some were throwing themselves on ___ of

the whale’s blow-hole to stop it _________.

Others were stopping it _______ out to sea

After the hunt

The killers _______ the dead body down into

the ______ of the sea, having a good feed on its

lips and ______ .

Anecdote two

The dangers facing James;

He was ________the boat and was _________by rough waves.

There was a shark out there.

The help offered by old Tom;

Old Tom wouldn’t _______the shark near.

Old Tom firmly _______James ________in the water.

Task 2: multiple choices

1. According to the text, which of the following is TRUE?

A. The fierce killers would attack people when they were hungry.

B. The author didn’t believe the killers helped the whalers catch whales at first.

C. One of the whalers, George, liked being kept waiting.

D. The killers could race whales as well as excited dogs.

2.Old Tom throws itself out of the water and then crashes down in order to ___.

A, give the whalers the information about a whale B. tell the whalers it is hungry

C. help the whalers catch the whale D. inform the whalers to run away

3.According to the text, the killer whales can protect men from being attacked by____.

A. whales B. tigers C. enemies D.

sharks

4.We can infer from the text 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

Step5 Fill in the blanks according to the passage

. Working at the _______(whale) station, I had _________ whales killed many times with

my own eyes. On the afternoon I arrived at the station, as I ___________ (sort 短语) my

accommodation, I heard a loud noise coming from the bay. Running down to the shore in time, we saw an _________ (huge同义词)animal.

“It is called Old Tom, the killer.” George said as he ran ahead____ me. __ the distance we

could see that something was happening. As we ___________ (draw 短语), I could see a

whale____________ by a _____ of about six sharks. Being badly wounded, the whale soon

died. Very soon, its body was dragged by the sharks down into the ________ of the sea.

答案；Pre—reading ; an old man called Clancy; a whaler; anecdotes ; at the beginning of the

20th century, the killer whales helped the whales catch a baleen whale

B, A

Step4, water ; crashed ; boat; team; top; breathing; fleeing; dragged; depths; tongue

Washed off ; carried away; let; held up

B, A, D, A

Step5 whaling , witnessed, was sorting out, enormous, of ,in, drew nearer , being

attacked , pack, depths