Teaching Aims:
Help the students to learn an Inuit legend about the Killer Whale.
Important points:
Understanding the relationship between the killers and the whalers.
Difficult points
The relationship between the killers and the whalers
Teaching aids
A computer and a projector
Teaching Procedures & ways
Step 1 : Leading - in
1. What is a whaler?
2. What do you know about killer whales?
New words
1. to see, to give evidence n. person who gives evidence -----------------
2. v. get ready for a trip by putting things into a box
v. to run/hurry away from sth ------------------
3. v. to leave, to go away from -------------------
4. adj. coming / happening every year --------------
Step 2: Skimming
1. Who is Old Tom? What is the first anecdote about? And how about the second one?
Step 3: Fast - Reading
1. The text is mainly about ____.
A. the killer whales are easily trained
B. the killer whales can help the whalers catch the huge whales
C. the killer whales kill the whales for their food
D. the killer whales drag the whales under the water
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. _____ killed the whale at last.
A. Old Tom B. the killer whales
C. the author D. the whalers
4. Why did the whalers start turning the boat around to go home after the whale died? ___
A. Because they didn't need a dead whale B. Because they couldn't find the whale's body C. Because they knew that the dead whale wouldn't float up to the surface for around 24 hours.
D. They had to do this because it was too late.
5. The killer whale protected James by _____.
A. fighting the shark B. killing the shark