Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学设计第二课时

Unit 4 Exploring Plants Teaching

design 安徽省灵璧县黄湾中学

王秀梅

Teaching goals：

1.

Get students to learn some useful news words and expressions, such as, explore, exploration, courtyard, balcony, distant, goods, conflict, anchor, tightly, container, restriction, fluency, shaving, thunderstorm, appeal to. 2.

Learn about the history of plants exploration in the 18th and 19th century.

3.

Help the students learn how to sort out the historical events according to time sequence. Teaching important and difficult points：

Help the students have a clear idea of the whole passage by summarizing the topic of each paragraph. Teaching methods：

Scanning, skimming, question-and-answer and group work. Teaching aids：

Projector, slide and tape recorder. Teaching procedures：

Step1:Warming up Do you know the national flowers of the following countries? Show some pictures on the

PPT. Step 2: skimming The text is written in the order of _____.

A. the importance of plant

B. the timeline of plant exploration

C. the collection of plants

D. the age of collectors The beginning When: Not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Who: European middle classes What: Taking

great interest in collecting plants When: By the middle of the 18th century Who: French Catholic missionaries What: Father

d’Incarville

was sent

to _______ to _____ _______ of trees and bushes I ncluding those of the ____

____

_____ Rseult: Seeds of the tree of Heaven were sent to ________,

and were grown _____ ____ . In 1784, It was______ in ______ _______

When: between 1843 and 1859 Who: Robert Fortune

What: He not only introduce ____ ____ to ____ _____ but he also shipped ___ ____

from ____ to_______ When: The second half of nineteenth century Who: Father Farges What: He collected the seeds of __ __ and brought them to__. 1. The word “ exotic” in the first

paragraph probably means __.

A. familiar

B. foreign

C. far away

D. various 2. Who first sent seeds of the Dove Tree to Europe?

A. Robert Fortune

B. E.H.Wilson

C. Father Farges

D. Father d’Incarville

3. What resulted in the complete change of plant exploration?

A. James Cook’s first voyage.

B. The invention of the Wardian case.

C. The Dove Tree’s growing in Europe.

D. French Catholic missionaries’

set up.

4. Who had ever been to Australia?

A. Ward.

B. Banks.

C. Robert.

D. Both A and B Step3: scanning 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. Step4: summary Time In 1500 B.C People/plants Historic Event The Queen of Egypt Sent ships to gather plants, animals and other goods In the 1740s In 1751 Fatherd’ Incarville Tree of Heaven seeds Was sent to Beijing Arrived in England

In 1769 In 1784 Sir Joseph Banks The Tree of Heaven Collected plants in Australia Was introduced into North

tree In 1833 Nathaniel Ward America Shipped two cases of British Plants to Sydney 1843-1859 During the second half of the 19th century

Robert Fortune May Catholic missionaries Made several trips to China Were sent to China from France Step5: Homework 1.

Learn new words by heart. 2.

Write a short report about your favorite plant.