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Unit4 Exploring plants Reading 教学设计

1教学目标

Ⅰ. Teaching aims: 1. Enable the students to

Learn about the history of plants exploration in the 18th and 19th century. 2. Train the students’ reading ability(skimming, detail reading, distinguishing different styles of articles) 2学情分析

The students have mastered the vocabulary and some language points. 3重点难点

Ⅱ.Teaching important points: 1. Get some information of Australia in the text 2. Improve the students’ reading ability. Ⅲ.Teaching difficult points: Help the students have a clear idea of the whole passage by summarizing the topic of each paragraph. 4教学过程

4.1第一学时

4.1.1教学活动

Step 1 Lead-in T: Can you believe a world without plants? what on earth do plants benefit us? Or what are the important things plants provide? Make a list according to your understanding. Step2 Fast reading 1.Let students answer the questions in Pre-reading to get prepared for the text. Suggested main idea for each paragraph: 2.Main idea Para. 1 The history of bringing back plants from other countries dates

back to the earliest times. Para. 2 In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, plant exploration began on a large scale as some European countries moved into other parts of the world. Para. 3 In the middle of the 18th century, missionary Father d’Incarville sent some seeds of trees and bushes he collected in Beijing to England. Para. 4 British plant collector Sir Joseph Banks traveled from England to Oceania and collected a large number of plants in Australia. Para. 5 How to keep plants alive during the long trip is a big challenge for plants collectors. Para. 6 The invention of the Wardian case helped plants to survive long journeys. Para. 7 Robert Fortune, as one of the earliest plant collector to use Wardian cases, not only introduced many plants from China to Western gardens. Para. 8 In the second half of the nineteenth century, many French Catholic missionaries collected plants in China and sent them back to France. Para. 9 European botanists were very excited to know that China had a large number of plants, so they went to China for plants collecting. Step3 careful-reading Name Queen of the Egypt Father d’ Incarville Sir Joseph Banks Nationality Egypt When What did he do Around Sent ships away to gather plants, animals, 1500BC and other goods. Collected and sent seeds of trees and French 1740s bushes including those of the Tree of Heaven. British 1769 Collected examples of plants and animals whenever they went onto dry land.

Dr. Nathaniel Ward British 1833 Invented a tightly sealed portable glass container. Introduced over 120 species of plants to Robert Fortune British 1843-1859 Western gardens but also shipped 20,000 tea plants from Shanghai to India, where a successful tea industry was established. Father Fages E H Wilson

French 1890s Collected 37 seeds from a tree Collected a large quantity of seeds of the Dove Tree. French 1899

Step4 homework

Please make sentences with the following words and phrases and write them on your exercise book: date back to, distant, conflict, tightly, fluency, appeal to.