Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教案2

Book 9 unit 4 exploring plants

Teaching aims To help students develop their reading ability

To help students learn some useful words and expressions

Teaching procedures Step 1 Warming up

Let’s enjoy some beautiful

Pictures. Are these plants here in our garden originally? How did they come here? Step 2 pre-reading

Scan the title of the reading passage and

the pictures and predict:what is it about?

But who? And what exactly did they do? Step 3 while-reading 1)Skimming

Please find out the names in the passage and match each person with the thing related to him

1.

Father dIncarville

2. Sir Joseph Banks 3. Dr Nathaniel Ward

4. Robert Fortune 5. Father Farges

6 E H Wilson

A.Tree of heaven

B. Invention of Wardian case

C. Discovery of the

Dove tree

D. Collection of seeds in Australia

E. Tea plants to India

F. Seeds of dove tree 2) Careful reading Please find out the answers to the following questions in the quickest way 1.The text is written in the order

of___________. A. The importance of plant exploration B. The timeline of plant exploration C. The collection of plants D. The age of collectors 2. The word “

exotic”

in the first paragragh probably means______ .

A. familiar

B. foreign C. faraway

D. various 3. Who first sent seeds of the Dove Tree to Europe?

A. Robert Fortune

B. E.H.Wilson

C. Father Farges D. Father d’Incarville 4. What is the most probable reason for collecting new plants in the 18th and 19th

century? New plants could be used for

scientific research B. The plant collectors took great

interest in the expeditions C. The plant collectors were eager to enrich their experiences D. The plant collectors wanted to introduce new species to their native country. Structure: Part I:

The _________ of

plant collecting

Part II:

____________ of plants in the 18th century Part III:

The invention and use of_______ Part IV:

The exploration of Plants __________ Summary

Read the passage again and write down the summary in about 30 words

It’s about plant exploration in the 18th and 19th centuries and some plant collectors, who came to China and Australia to look for plants species.

Step 4

after- reading

Please fill the blankets according to the passage The plants look so familiar____ we often don’t know that many of them are from countries far away, which dates _____ the earliest time. Many plant collectors realized the value of plants from distant lands. _______, the exploration of the botanical world

didn’t begin

on _____large scale______the18 and 19th centuries. Of course ,they had many difficulties in the trips, ______ (face) many dangers including disease,near-starvation, severe environment and conflicts _______the local people.

The missionaries collected

large ________ (quantity) of specimens, but there were not enough in Western gardens. However, the botanists were very _______ (excite) with the knowledge that China had many kinds of plants, so the collectors _________(send) to China to collect more kinds. Step 5 Discussion The botanists went through many hardships during the exploration. Now discuss about the difficulties they met

in groups of four and then the leader will report your discussion Step 6 Homework 1.

Finish comprehending 2. Retell the story.