unit9 listening

1.What is the length and weight of the blue whale?2.Why do whales like to feed in the cold oceans.. 4.What is the main reason for the decrease in whale population?. 6.What would happen

KIM GAMES

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UNIT 9: UNDERSEA WORLD

Lesson : Listening

Vocabulary

1 Krill (n)

2 whaling

3 Migrate (v)

4 Conservation (n)

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Work in pairs Discuss the following

questions.

1 Do you think whales are fish? Why (not)?

2 Why do people keep hunting whales?

Task1 Listen to some information about whales and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F)

T F Correct

1 The whale is the third largest animal that

has ever lived on Earth.

2 Whales are said to be the most intelligent

animals in the ocean

3 Some whales are known to move into warm

waters to give birth

4 Whales are in danger because of the increase

in population of other sea animals

5 Some people are still killing whales for food

T T

T

T

T

F

F F F

F

F T T F

T

heavy hunting pressure

1.What is the length and weight of the blue whale?

2.Why do whales like to feed in the cold oceans?

3.According to the listening passage, what are

the good feeding grounds for whales?

4.What is the main reason for the decrease in whale

population ? 5.What have conservation groups asked the

International Whaling Commission to do?

6.What would happen if we didn’t take any measures to protect whales?

Task2: Listen again and then answer the following questions

1.What is the length and weight of the blue whale?

The blue whale grows to 30 meters in length and

o over 200 tons in weight

2.Why do whales like to feed in the cold oceans?

Because there is a lot of krill- their favorite

food in cold waters

3.According to the listening passage, what are

the good feeding grounds for whales?

Cold waters in the North and South Atlantic Ocean and the North and the South Pacific are their favorite

feeding grounds

4 What is the main reason for the decrease

in whale population ?

• Heavy hunting is the main reason for the

decrease in whale population

5 What have conversation groups asked the International Whaling Commission to do?

• They have asked the International Whaling

Commission to stop most whaling

6 What would happen if we didn’t take any

measures to protect whales?

• if we didn’t take any measures to protect

whales, they would disappear forever

Work in groups Talk about whales

which you

• 1 what is the length and weight of whale ?

• 2 what do it eat?

• 3 where was it find ?

• 4 why does whale population decrease?

• 5 why should we protect whale?

Report whales which you know