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(英语组柳佳玫)
Unit 3 Under the sea (reading)
Old Tom The Killer Whale
Pre-reading (P19)
writer
vocation
iller whales.
It ’ s about how a killer whale protected &saved James. )
Reading task 3
Read the text carefully and then answer the questions.
What evidence was there that Old Tom was helping the whalers out?
Maybe you can get some according to the pictures.
How did Old Tom help James?
Why do you think he did?
( 1. Evidence of helping the whalers:
throw itself out of the water and crash down again.
telling the whalers there’ s a whale out there
swim by the boat
showing the whalers the way to the hunt
work as a team
killers over there are throwing themselves on top of the whale-ho’ le s blow
to stop it breathing, and those others are stopping it fleeing out to sea.
the killers started racing between our boat and the whale just like a pack
of excited dogs, then the harpoon was ready and the man in the bow of the
boat aimed it at the whale and let it go, then it hit the spot.
Old Tom firmly held James up in the water. He wanted to help his human
friends.)
Reading task 4
Please read the passage again, and then finish the following multiple
choices.
The author mainly tells us in the text that.
the killer whales are easily trained
the killer whales can help the whalers catch the huge whales
the killer whales kill the whales for their food