Unit 3 Plants教学设计第一课时

The interesting world of plants Teaching aims: 1) To enable students to have a general ideal of the text. 2) To let the students find out the different features of the four plants and describe them. 3) To cultivate students’

interest in plants in nature and discover the importance of plants in our life.

Teaching aids: computer, text book

Teaching procedures : Stage Pre-task while-task procedure 1.Review the words 2. Present some pictures 1.What’s the feature of the water lily? and the Victoria lily?

flowering plants. True or False ?

3.Can the lotus be eaten ?

4.Show the structure of a tree.

themselves and grow bark. True of false?

6.Fill in the blanks

To find the feature of

similarity between water lily and lotus.

To find the feature of the lotus.

To review the different parts of a tree.

way the banyan tree grows

To find the evidence that shows the interesting point of its feature.

What’s the relation between the water lily Victoria lily. Aim

To elicit the main topic 2.Both the water lily and the lotus are To have an idea of the 5.The branches of the banyan tree can plant To better understand the 7.Gingko,known as“longevity trees”,can live To find the feature of

for a long time and they are the oldest living gingko tree. trees in the world. True or false?

features of each plant.

Post-task

of each plant and their 8.Ask Ss to find out the descriptions and To conclude the feature detailed descriptions.

1.Introduce one of your favourite plant to To activate language and consolidate what Ss have your partner with the reference information

learned.

To understand the 2.Discuss the topic: importance of plants in

plants and our environment our life.

Assignme1.Read and retell the text in your own words 2.Finish Ex D E ( P36 37 ) nt