Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehendingppt课件配套教案内容

Unit4

Exploring plants The first period Reading Teaching goals: 1.Review and learn some words and expressions . 2. Find and infer some information according to the reading material. 3. Express your ideas after reading.

Teaching important points To enable students to understand the reading material by using predicting, skimming, scanning, analyzing, summarizing and inferring after reading. Teaching methods Task-based learning approach, competition, group work, discussion Step I. Lead-in (3’)

A. Divide the whole class into small groups. Step II. Warming up

Show us your favorite flowers? Step III Skimming Read the passage quickly and try to get the main idea of this passage. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Try to 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 _______________________________________________ Comprehending: Fill in the form.

Time

in the 1740s People/plants

Father

Historic Events

1

in 1751

in

1769

in 1784

in 1833

1843-1859 Duringthesecondhalf of the19th century

In 1897

In 1899 d’Incarville

Tree of Heaven seeds Sir Joseph Banks The tree of

Heaven tree Nathaniel Ward Robert Fortune

many Catholic

missionaries Father Farges

E H Wilson

StepIII.

Detailed reading 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

Dvarious 3. Transporting plants over long distances was a big problem. Why was this? A.

It was hard to keep them alive during long trips. B. The weather is bad. C. It costs too much. D. There is not enough water. 4. Who first sent seeds of the Dove Tree to Europe?

A. Robert Fortune

B. E.H.Wilson

C. Father Farges

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D. Father d’Incarville

Step IV Consolidation

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. Summary

Many plants went through ups and downs to arrive in China. We should protect and cherish them.

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