Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学设计思路

Unit4 Exploring plants :Reading（新人教选修9）

教学设计

Teaching goals: Target language: a.Key words and phases in the passage. b. Useful sentences等

Important sentences Ability goals: a.

To know somgthing about plants. b. to develop reading skills like predicting, skimming, scanning, summary, inference and language observation through reading c.

to develop the ability and skills to cooperate and communicate with others Emotion goals To keep cutiosity about plants and make students love their lives. Teaching aids:

Multi-media computer platform cards, etc Teaching methods:

Task-based method to finish the teaching assignment. Cooperation and discussion methods to use the language learned in this lesson Teaching procedures: Step1.Warming up and leading in.

1.

T:

How much do you know about plants? 2.

DISCUSSION:

Did you know that: 1). some plants do not have flowers? 2).some plants have roots that live in

the air? 3).

some plants eat meat? 4).

some plants need animals to

pollinate them? 5).

some plants grow on other plants? 6). plants are adapted to live in specific environments? 7). people buy plants that come from other countries for their gardens? 8).a new plant does not always grow from a seed? Step2.Pre-reading

DISCUSSION:

1.Do you have a courtyard or some pot plants on your balcony?

2.Do you know where these plants come from?

3.Are they Chinese plants or do they come from another country?

4.When you last visited a public garden, did you look at the individual plants

there? Were there any plants from other countries?

Step3.Reading 1.

Scaning Scan the title of the reading passage and the pictures and

predict what it is about?

2.

Skimming

Read the passage quickly and try to get the main idea of this passage?

3.

T or F Questions:

1. The plants in our garden grew in China originally.

2. The American Middle Classes took great interest in collecting new plants during the 18th and 19th centuries.

3. French Catholic missionaries were beginning to set themselves up in China by the middle of the 18th century.

4. After Father d’ Incarville died, some Tree of Heaven seeds were sent to England.

5.Banks, together with James Cook, collected many examples of plants in Australia.

6. Keeping plants alive during long land or sea voyage was very difficult, which caused the Wardian Case to be invented.

7.. Robert Fortune introduced over 120 species of plants to Western Gardens, because he could easily travel everywhere in China. 8. During the second half of the 19th century, many Catholic missionaries were sent to China, and they collected many seeds of plants, which were sent back to France.

4.Detailed reading:

Try to get the main idea of each paragraph:

Para1:

explains when plant collecting began.

Para2: describes when and where plant collecting began on a large scale by Europeans.

Para3: talks about French Catholic missionaries who collected plants in China in the 18th century.

Para4: is about the famous British plant collector, Sir Joseph Banks, who collected many new plants in Australia.

Para5: explains the problems of keeping plants alive on long trips.

Para6: describes an experiment carried out by Dr Nathaniel Ward who invented a glass case in which to transport plants on long journeys

Para7: is about Robert Fortune, a British plant collector who made several trips to China in the 19th century.

Para8: is about Father Farges, a French Catholic missionary who collected plants in China in the 19th century.

Para9: Describes how many European plant collectors, such as E H Wilson, went to China so that new plants could be introduced to gardens in the West.

5.

Comprehending

Time

People/plants

Historic Events

In 1500 B.C

in the 1740s

In 1751

In 1769

In 1784

In 1833

1843-1859

During the second half of

the 19th century

In 1897

In 1899

Step4. Posting –reading Telling the history of the plants according to the time table above Step5. Homework

1. Write and recite the summary.

2. Remember the new words and phrases. Teaching relection: 1.

the students are intereted in the topic and they can discuss the questions heatly. 2.

There may be too much content for them to finish. 3.

The teacher can divide the class into several groups to finish the task.