Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学目标设计

选修9unit4 Exploring plants

About the topic and the Our topic of this unit is “Exploring plants”, which introduces how structure did people explore plants. It also tells us creature can be divided into two parts：plants and animals. And the differences between plants and animals. Period 1 warming up and Warming up reading Objectives: 1.

to help students learn to express emotions (wonder, disgust) 2.

to help students learn to read an exposition about plants exploration. 3.

to help students better understand plants 4.

to help students learn some important words and expressions focus Words Expressions Patterns

Pollinate, anchor, seal, shave, appear, lower, postpone, rot, evolve, attach Date back to, appear to,

give out In 1833,Ward shipped two cases of British plants to Sydney, Australia. Collecting “exotic”

plants, as they are called, dates back to the earliest times. However, it was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the exploration of the botanical world began on a large scale. Large number of seeds failed to grow after long sea voyages or trips across land between Asia and Europe. Ward shipped two cases of British plants to Sydney, Australia. He made several trips to China between 1843 and 1859. Not only did Fortune introduce over 120 species of plants to Western gardens but he also shipped20,000 tea plants from Shanghai to India, where a successful tea industry was established. Procedures 1 warming up (1)Warming up by defining plants.----We see plants every day. But what are they? Plants are a major group of living things (about300,000 species), including familiar organisms, such as trees, flowers, herbs, and ferns. Aristotle divided all living things between plants, which generally do not move or have sensory organs, and animals. (2) warming up by talking about different gardens Gardens vary in forms and functions. How many can you see in your area? (3) warming up by discussing plant exploration 2. pre-reading by getting to know what a garden is 3. reading for forms 4. copying expressions and make sentences 5. reading and transform 6.detailed reading 7. comprehension 8.summary