Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehendingppt配套的教学设计及说课稿

Unit 4 Exploring plants The first period Reading Plant exploration in the 18th and 19th centuries

Teaching goals: 1.Language target: A. Key words and phrase: exotic, conflict, container, restriction, date back to, appeal to B. Key sentences a. Collecting “exotic” plants, as they are called, dates bake to the earliest times. b. However, it was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the exploration of the botanical world began on a large scale. c. One of the collectors was Father Farges, who collected 37 seeds from a tree that has appealed to him. d. The European classes took great interest in collecting plants. e. Large numbers of seeds failed to grow after long sea voyages. 2.Ability goals A. Students get some information on plant exploration. B. Students get the main idea, find and infer information according to the reading material. C. Students express their ideas after reading.

D. Students help, cooperate and communicate with each other. Teaching important points To enable students to understand the reading material by using predicting, skimming, scanning, analyzing, summarizing and inferring after reading. Teaching difficult points 1. To enable students make use of given information to express their opinions on the passage. 2. Help students observe language points and prepare for the grammar revision. Teaching methods Task-based learning approach, competition, group work, discussion Teaching aids Multi-media computer platform, group cards Teaching procedures Step I. Warming up

Do you know the national flowers of the following countries? China

Japan

Canada

Netherlands

Peru

Step II Skimming Read the passage quickly and try to divide it into four parts and get the main idea of each part? Part 1: Para1-2 ______________________________________________ Part 2:Para3-4

______________________________________________ Part 3: Para 5-7

______________________________________________ Part 4: Para 8-9 _______________________________________________

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Step III Scanning

Read all the passage and then finish the tasks. T or F 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

Step IV Read the text carefully and choose the best answers. 1. 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

Step V Comprehending: Fill in the form.

Time People/plant Historic Events s

In1500.B.C the Queen of

Egypt

in the 1740s Father

d’Incarville

in 1751 Tree of Heaven seeds Sir Joseph Banks The tree of

Heaven tree Nathaniel Ward

Robert

Fortune

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in

1769

in 1784

in 1833

1843-1859

During the Second half of the19th

century In 1897 many Catholic

missionaries Father Farges

In 1899

E H Wilson Step VI

What are your favorite plants? And why? beautiful;

tall;

easy to plant; tough ; nice smell; tasty; be beneficial to our health…

Step VII homework

1. Learn the text by heart. 2. Write a short report about your favorite plant.

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