2019屆高三英語Under the sea
after a short while.
t: what does anecdote mean? have you got its meaning from the dictionary?
s: it means a short story based on your personal experience.
t: right! so what are the main characters of the story?
s: whalers, killer whales and baleen whales.
t: but what is the real name of the killers? and how did they help the whalers to catch the baleen whales? let’s read the text and find the answers.
step ⅲ reading comprehending
in this step, the ss will read the text and deal with the comprehending exercises.
skimming
let the ss skim the text and get the main ideas of the two anecdotes.
after skimming.
t: who is old tom? what is the first anecdote about?
s: old tom is the name of killer whales. the first anecdote describes a hunting experience about how the killer whales helped the whalers to hunt a whale.
t: good! how about the second one?
s: it tells about how a killer whale protected and saved james, a whaler.
scanning
let the ss do scanning and find the answers to the questions in exercise 2.
t: first, go through the questions in exercise 2 on page 21, and then i will give you several minutes to do scanning.
a few minutes later, guide the ss to do pair work (as follows), while the teacher can walk around to see if they have any problems to deal with.
sa: what evidence was there that old tom was helping the whalers out?
sb: old tom was swimming by the boat, showing us the way and leading us to the hunt. george started beating the water with his oar and there was tom, circling back to the boat, leading us to the hunt again ...
then ask some pairs to ask and answer the questions before class.
t: very good! now close your books and we’ll listen to the tape of this text. take out a piece of paper. look at the screen, while you are listening, pay attention to the whole story and try to write down the missing words in the sentences according to what you hear. are you ready?
show the following sentences on the screen. (the sentences are given with blanks.)
1. i thought, at the time, that this was just a story but then i witnessed it with my own eyes many times.
2. …as i was sorting out my accommodation, i heard a loud noise coming from the bay.
3. we ran down to the shore in time to see an enormous animal throwing itself out of the water and then crashing down again.
4. “come on, clancy. to the boat,” george said as he ran ahead of me.
5. as we drew closer, i could see a whale being attacked by a pack of about six other killers.