人教版高中英语选修7《Unit 3 Under the sea》教案【一】
教学准备
教学目标
1.引导学生通过上下文理解生词的含义：
anecdote, annual, witness, accommodation, shore, yell, pack, flee, drag, depth, lip, tongue, abandon, relationship, help out
2. 帮助学生掌握文中一些描述事物和情景的生动手法，从而体会作者的思想情感，把握文章的精髓。
3 帮助学生通过两个故事，对生活在大洋的虎鲸能有更多的了解，同时对虎鲸给予我们人类忠实的帮助产生由衷的感激，从而加强动物保护和环境保护意识。
教学重难点
1.引导学生通过上下文理解生词的含义：
anecdote, annual, witness, accommodation, shore, yell, pack, flee, drag, depth, lip, tongue, abandon, relationship, help out
2. 帮助学生掌握文中一些描述事物和情景的生动手法，从而体会作者的思想情感，把握文章的精髓。
3 帮助学生通过两个故事，对生活在大洋的虎鲸能有更多的了解，同时对虎鲸给予我们人类忠实的帮助产生由衷的感激，从而加强动物保护和环境保护意识。
教学过程
Step1 Lead –in &Warming-up(5mins)
问题导入——教师呈现问题和图片
T: Have you seen plants andanimals that live under the sea? Where did you see them? What’s this? Yes,they’re killer whales. How much do you know about them? I’ll show you a shortvideo.
【意图说明】 在读前这个环节，通过几个问题，激发学生原有的对海洋生物的知识储备，再展示一些相关的图片，认识一些常见海底动物的英文名称。最后出现虎鲸的形象，以抛出问题What’sthis? How much do you know about them?来引出今天阅读的主角——虎鲸。先播放一段视频——“虎鲸捕猎”的场面。
Step2 Pre-reading (Predicting)(2mins)
T: Now please look at the title“Is Old Tom an old man?” Right, it’s notan old man. It’s the name of a killer whale. Here are two pictures of thekiller whale. Can you guess what happened to him?
【意图说明】标题导读是指导英语阅读的重要方法。通过解读题目，观察文中的插图，让学生预测故事的内容，这样更能激起他们的阅读兴趣。
Step3 While-reading (28mins)
Task 1 Fast-reading(3mins)
What’s the main idea of the passage? Read the passage quickly and completethe following sentences.
The text consists of two ________written by Clancy.They are mainly about how Old Tom helped the whalers ________a whale and savedJames from the _______.
Explain new words:
anecdote: short, usuallyamusing story about a real person or event
【意图说明】采用完成句子的形式来给出文章的大意，这样很大程度上降低了难度，可以让更多的学生能够完成，从而产生成就感。
Task 2 Careful-reading(3mins)
Read the first story again and finish the chart.
Fill in the blanks.
【意图说明】训练学生寻找细节信息的阅读技能，同时突出本课的生词和短语。要求学生不看书来完成，这样更具有挑战性。
Task 3 Discussing and Speaking(5mins)
Discuss in pairs and answer the following questions.
What’s the relationshipbetween Old Tom and the whalers?
【意图说明】活动2的填表活动只是帮助学生对故事主要情节有大概的了解，而这个环节的提问是为了帮助学生进一步读懂文章, 对文章有更深的理解和思考，培养他们的批判性思维，使他们能够正确对待动物与人类之间的关系。
Task 4 Read the second story again and finish the chart.(2mins)
Fill in the blanks.
Task 5 Discussing and Speaking(15mins)
Read the second story and answer the following questions:
1. How did Old Tom help James?
2. As far as you know , what other animals everhelp out human beings in history?
【意图说明】这里给学生时间去交流他们所知道的动物救人的奇闻轶事，然后请个别小组来汇报讨论结果，与全班同学来分享故事。如果学生知道的不多，教师可让他们阅读以下三个小故事。出国留学网
(公元前5世纪，古希腊历史学家希罗多德记载过一件奇事：音乐家阿里昂乘船返回希腊时，水手们意欲谋财害命。阿里昂乞求水手们允诺他演奏生平最后一曲。他奏完乐曲就跳入大海，一头海豚游过来驮起这位音乐家，将他送到了伯罗奔尼撒半岛。
有一个车老板赶着马车从山上往山下走，这时辕马的套掉了，老板俯下身想拣起来，没想到穿在身上的棉大衣被压在车轮底下，将人带了下去。在这千钧一发之际，辕马一口将车老板叼起，随着巨大的惯性向山下跑去，一直跑到安全地带，车才慢慢停下来，把人轻轻放下，这时马跑了一身汗。”战兽医师说，“这个老板心地非常善良，平时与马很有感情，从来不打马，这次有难，是马救了他。
” 1999年《哈尔滨晚报》登载了这样一条新闻:黑龙江省阿城市有一个聋哑人，有一天坐在火车道上，当火车路过这里时，怎么鸣叫他也听不见。这时，在路边吃草的一只山羊见到了，它拼命地跑了过来，用角把这个人推出了道轨，而它来不及躲避，不幸壮烈牺牲。)
3. What conclusion can we come to after weshare these stories?
【意图说明】通过交流几个动物救人的感人故事，学生会由衷地产生对动物的喜爱和感激之情，会认识到大自然的一切，我们都要感恩，都要爱护，我们与动物要和谐相处，世界才会更美好。
Step4 Languageappreciation(10mins)
【意图说明】接下来这个环节是要引导学生学会鉴赏文章中语言的美，这也是本节课的一个重点部分。学生可根据自己的真实想法，给出他们认为写的精彩的句子，以及给他们留下最深印象的场面。
In the first story, which sentences do you thinkbest describe the scene of the whale hunt and the actions of Old Tom? In thesecond story, what scene impresses you most?
在学生各抒己见之后，教师可着重分析以下几个句子。
We ran down to the shore in time to see an enormousanimal opposite us throwing itself out of the water andthen crashing down again.
我们及时赶到岸边，看到对面有一个庞大的动物猛力跃出水面，然后又坠落到水里。
throwing itself out of the water 形象地表现了鲸跃出水面的动作。throw的用法很灵活，能表达出丰富的含义。如：
I felt discouraged when he threw cold water on myidea.
他给我的想法泼冷水时，我感到很沮丧。
She threw herself into a chair and began to cry.
她倒在椅子上，哭了起来。
The fire threw hundreds of workers out of work.
大火使几百个工人失业。
…when we approached him, I saw James being firmly held up in the water by Old Tom.
当我们靠近他的时候，我看到老汤姆在水中正稳稳地托着詹姆斯。
Step4 Homework
1. Surf the Internet andlearn more about the killer whale and other marine animals.
2. Try to retell the story using your own words.
【意图说明】要求学生通过上网搜索相关信息，有助于他们了解虎鲸和其它的海洋生物，从而增强动物环保意识。要求复述课文，巩固本节课中出现的重要的词汇和短语的用法，达到学以致用的目的。
人教版高中英语选修7《Unit 3 Under the sea》教案【二】
教学准备
教学目标
教学目标
1. Ability goals 能力目标
To help the Ss develop their reading ability by skimming for main ideas and car eful-reading for details with the teacher’s guidance.
To get The Ss to master some key words such as witness, abandon, yell, drag, flee and so on.
2. Learning ability goals 学能目标
To enable the Ss to talk about animals under the sea.
To help the Ss know the importance of the relationship between animals and humans.
教学重难点
教学重点和难点
Teaching important points 教学重点
Help the Ss know more about animals under the sea as well as the animals’ loyalty and help to human bein gs.
Teaching difficult points 教学难点
1. Help the Ss get the main idea and some detailed information by fast-reading and careful-reading.
2. Help the Ss tell apart from Before, During and After in the story.
教学过程
Step1. Warming Up : Talk about animals under the sea.
1. Have you ever seen some marine animals?
2. What have you seen, and where have you seen them?
I have seen a/some/many…… in/on/from……
amazing marine animals: seal, turtle, dolphin, sea-horse, sea-star, shark, angelfish, jellyfish, lobster, coral
Step2. Fast-reading:
1. Find out the Background Information of the story : writer, career, writing style, time, place, main character.
2. Find out the Main Idea of the passage: What’s the first story mainly about?
Step3. Careful-reading:
1. Clancy had heard of the killer whales that every year killer whales would help whalers catch baleen whales. Did he believe it at first? When did he believe it was a true anecdote?
2. How many paragraphs are there all together in story1? The hunt can be divided into 3 stages.
Stage1: before the hunt: (para. 2-6):
Old Tom’s doing: throwing itself out of … and crashing down again… Why? to tell the whalers…, …by the boat…, circling back to …Why? to lead the whalers…
Whalers’ reaction: Another whaler __________. George _____ ___ _____ Clancy, and Clancy ______ after him. They __________ the boat and ______ ____into the bay.
Stage2&3: Dur ing and after the hunt: (para. 7-9):
Killer whale’s doing: The killers over there are ________ themselves on the top of the whale’s blow-hole to stop it __________; and some others are stopping it _______ out to sea. The killers started ________ between our boat and the whale just like a pack of ____ ___ dogs. When the baleen whale was dead, its body wa s _______ down into the depths of the sea.
Whalers’ reaction: The man in the bow of the boat aimed the harpoon at the whale and then let it go to hit the spot.
Conclusion: They have amazing relationship. They work as a team
Step4 : Summary
Working at the _______station, I had the chance to _________ a baleen whale being attacked by a ______ of k iller whales.
On the afternoon I arrived at the station, as I was __________ my accommodation, I heard a loud noise coming from the bay. I ran down to the ______ in time to see an enormous animal _________ itself out of the water and then _______________ again. George told me it was Old Tom, who announced there would be a ___________.
Using a _________, we could see a baleen whale _______________ by about six killers. Some are ________ themselves on top of the whale’s __________to stop it breathing; and some others are stopping it _______ out to sea. The whalers aimed the ________ at the whale and then let it go to hit the spot. Being badly ________, the whale soon died. Very soon, its body was ________ by the killers down into the _______ of the sea.
课后习题
课后作业
Deal with Exercise 3 in Comprehending . Let the Ss work in groups and do some discussion：As a matter of fact, whales are now an endangered animal. Many people are trying to protect them from being hunted. The last whaling station in Australia closed in 1978. But some countries oppose the ban. An d there are still people who hunt whales. What’s your opinion? Are you for or against the banning whaling? Consider the problem carefully and we’ll have a discussion tomorrow.