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Unit 4 Exploring Plants Period One: Warming up

Teaching Goal: 1.

to arouse students’ curiosity about plants 2.

to prepare them for reading Teaching Procedures: Put Ss in groups, and ask them to share the interesting plants they have hears or seen. Tips are provided for their discussion:

Plants have roots that live in the air

Plants eat meats Plants grow on other plants Plants are adapted to live in specific environment Plants do not have flowers Plants need animals to pollinate them A new plant does not always grow from a seed After their discussion, the teacher presents Ss some interesting plants:

And ask Ss to give some examples they can think about.

Reading I Teaching goal: 1.

to get students to know the plant exploration during 18th and 19th centuries

2.

to get students to practice the reading skills of skimming and scanning

Teaching Procedures: Pre-reading (step 1-3) Reading (step 4-5) Comprehending (step 6,7) Homework (step 8) Step1. The teacher may get Ss to look at the pictures,

and ask: Do you know these plants? Where are they from? Answers are given through PPT, making Ss aware that these commonly-seen plants are not local plants. Step2. Prediction. Ask Ss to scan the title of the reading passage and the pictures

and predict what it is about. It’s an individual work. Step 3.Ask Ss to scan the reading passage quickly and check their prediction. Meanwhile, find out the answers to these questions: 1.

What is an “exotic” plants?

2.

Why did James Cook call the bay where his ship stopped “Botany Bay”?

Key sentences explanation L2. Collecting "exotic" plants, as they are called, dates back to the earliest times.

收集所谓的“异国”植物要追溯到很久以前。

L6. However, it was not until the 18th and 19th centuries that the exploration of the botanical world began on a large scale.

然而，直到18世纪和19世纪，人们对植物世界大规模的探索才开始。

L8. This attraction to exotic plants grew as European nations, like the Netherlands, Britain and Spain, moved into other parts of the world like Asia and Australia.

随着欧洲人，如荷兰、英国和西班牙向世界其他地区如亚洲和澳洲的迁徙，这些异域植物的吸引力也在增长。

L13. An important group of collectors were French Catholic missionaries who, by the middle of the 18th century, were beginning to set themselves up in China.

有一群重要的收集者是法国天主教教士，18世纪中叶，他们开始进入中国。

L31. Cook called the bay where the Endeavour had anchored Botany Bay.

库克还把“奋进号”抛锚停靠的地方称为植物湾。

L40. The world of plant exploration was completely changed with Dr Nathaniel Ward's invention of a tightly sealed portable glass container.

纳撒尼尔·沃德医生所发明的便携式密封玻璃容器彻底改变了植物探索的世界。

L50. At that time, there were restrictions on the movement of Europeans and so, in order to travel unnoticed, he developed his fluency in Chinese and dressed as a Chinese man, even shaving his head in the Chinese style.

那时候，欧洲人在中国的活动受到种种限制，因此，为了在旅行中不引起别人的注意，他努力使自己的汉语讲得很流利，并且穿着中国人的服装，甚至像中国人一样削发（留辫）。