warmingupand(Reading)课件岳建-公开课件.ppt

Please read the reading again, and in pairs, answer the following questions. 1. What evidence was there that Old Tom was helping the whalers out? Evidence of helping the whalers throw itself out of the water and crash down again. Let the whalers know that there was a baleen whale nearby. swim by the boat Showing the whalers the way to the hunt 2. What other animals did the author compare the killer whales with? Why do you think the killer whales behaved like this? Dogs. Because they knew that, together with the whalers, they would soon kill the baleen whale and get a good feed. 3. Why did George think that the killer whales worked as a team? Because he could see that some of the killers were throwing themselves on top of the whale’s blow hole while others were preventing it from swimming out to sea. 4. Why do you think the whalers allowed the killer whales to drag the whale under the water to feed on its lips and tongue? 5. Why did the whalers return home without the whale’s body? Because they knew the Killer Whales would leave the rest of the body to them. Because the body would not float to the surface until about 24 hours later. 6.How do you think Red felt about the killer whales? 7. How did Old Tom help James? Why do you think he did this? Red felt good about the Killer Whales. He appreciated the working relationship that the whalers had with the Killer Whales. Old Tom prevented James from drowning. Old Tom wanted to help his human friends. Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks. Before the hunt The killer whale threw itself out of the _____ and then _______ down again. It swam by the_____, showing the whalers the way. water crashed boat During the hunt The killers were working as a _____. Some were throwing themselves on ___ of the whale’s blow-hole to stop it _________. Others were stopping it _______ out to sea. After the hunt The killers _______ the dead body down into the ______ of the sea, having a good feed on its lips