【教学设计】Unit3OldTomtheKillerWhale_.doc

Unit3 Old Tom the Killer Whale
鄄城一中 祝金英
Teaching Aims:
1. To make students know more about whales.
2. To develop students’ skimming and scanning reading skills.
3. To encourage students to raise questions and express their ideas in English through discussion.
Teaching Important & Difficult Points：
1. To make students know how the killers helped the whalers.
2. To educate students to protect animals and make students develop a sense of environmental protection.
Teaching Focus:
1. Train students’ reading skills.
2. Develop students’ abilities to catch information, analyze and solve problems through reading activities.
Teaching Procedures：
Step 1．Warming up
1．Do a riddle(谜语) to see how clever you are.
I am the largest animal in the world, living in the sea. I breathe air but I'm not a fish. My name begins with w and ends with e. What am I ?
2．Watch a video to get more about whales.
Purpose: Students will show great interest in whales and they will be ready for the class.
Step 2．Skimming to get the main idea
Fill in the blanks using 2 verbs(动词)
The passage is about 2 stories of Old Tom.
1. Old Tom _____________ the whalers hunt the whales.
2. Old Tom _____________the whaler from the shark.
Purpose: Students will learn to skim to find the topic paragraph and catch the information. So they will grasp the main idea quickly.
Step 3．Detail-reading
Task1. Read story 1 carefully to catch the information how Old Tom helped the whalers catch the baleen whale.
Before the hunt
Fill in the blanks with verbs动词
1._________itself out of the water and then _____________again to _________us there is a whale out there for us..
2. _________by the boat to ______us the way.
During the hunt
Answer the
questions
1. The killers were working as a ________.
2. Why did George think that the killer whales worked as a team?
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3.What did the whalers do during the hunt?
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4.Result:______________________________________________
After the hunt
Multiple choices
What did the whalers Not do after the hunt?
A. Let the killers drag the dead body down into the depths of the sea
B. Let the killers have a good feed on its lips and tail.
C. The whalers started turning the boat around to go home
D. The whalers would bring in the body tomorrow
Purpose: Students can grasp the main clue of story 1: the process of the hunt and develop their reading abilities to analyze and solve problems.
展示要求：
1.口头回答问题，声音洪亮。
2.不能回答本组的问题。

Task2. Read story 2 carefully to answer the questions raised by students.
Questions raised by students
Group
1. What did James feel when he was carried away from us?
1 3
2. How did Old Tom help James?
2 5
3. Why do you think Old Tom saved James?
·1·
4 6
Purpose: Students can learn to raise questions, analyze and solve problems. Meanwhile, they can develop a sense of teamwork and show themselves. So they can attack their limitations and build their confidence.
Step 4．Summary
Old Tom helped the whalers hunt the whales.
Killer whales are human being’s friends.
Old Tom protected the whaler from the shark.
Purpose: Students can stress what has been learned in this lesson and draw a conclusion: We should protect whales.
Step 5. Watch a video about people killing whales
Purpose: Students will sense that it is cruel to kill whales and they will be inspired to think more about the phenomenon. Meanwhile, they will get ready for the discussion.
Step 6．Discussion
Nowadays, the whales are in danger and they are dying out. Because many countries kill them for different use, especially Japan.
In groups discuss why we should protect whales and how to protect them.

Purpose: Students can further develop a sense of teamwork and they will be confident to express their ideas. By discussion, students can get moral education and their enthusiasm in English learning can be increased.
Step 7．Homework
Write a short passage according to the discussion.
要求: 1.词数100字左右
2.可根据讨论适当增加细节，使行文连贯
3.可用下列连接词，过渡句组织文章
As is known to all,…To start with, In addition, More importantly, Last but not least, As far as I am concerned, There is no doubt that… The reason why…is that…
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Purpose: Students can put what has been learned into practice and it is a process of output. Meanwhile, students can develop their writing ability.
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