Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehendingppt配套的教案及板书设计

Reading

教学内容：

Plant exploration in the 18th and 19th centuries 语言材料分析：

本册书针对的是高三学生。本节为本单元第二课时，主要介绍了欧洲18和19世纪的植物探险。本文简要地介绍一些著名的探险家和他们所取得的成果。文章属于总─分的结构。通过本文的学习，学生可以扩大视野，了解一些植物探险方面的知识。但是这篇文章篇幅上很长，信息量很大对学生理解该文造成了一定的难度。因此，在本课前要考虑这一问题，帮助高三学生提高阅读速度和对细节信息的分析。

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 1. Lead-in (3’)

A. Divide the whole class into small groups. B. A video clip about plants Focus: To arouse students’ interest and give the task to students. Step 2. Pre-reading (3’) Predict according to the title.

1.How much do you know about plants? 2.How do you think plants have traveled from one country to another? Focus: Students can make prediction after observing the title carefully. Step 3. While reading

Part 1. Fast reading

Read for the main idea and solve the task given in pre- reading. (Students work in groups and work out the questions). Part 2. Detailed reading

(20’)

Task 1. Skimming

Skim the passage and try to get the main idea of each part according to the timeline: when, who, what

And complete the chart Time

People/ plants

Historic Events

In 1500 B.C

in the 1740s

Focus: To develop students’ ability to search for detailed information. Task 2. Analyzing 1. The passage is organized in the order of ______. Focus: To develop students’ ability to analyze the whole passage. Task 3. Inference 1. What do you think the author will talk about if he adds a paragraph to this passage?

A.

The effects of the plant exploration in the 18th and 19th centuries. B. The plant exploration in the 20th century.

B.

Information about the Dove Tree. Focus: To help students read beyond the reading material and make their own judgment according the reading material. Step 4. Post-reading

Do you think plant exploration is meaningful ?

why? 1.

Discussing in groups

2.

Giving opinions.

Step 5. Assignments

1.Try to add a short paragraph as the end of the passage. 2. Get some information about plant exploration in the 20th and 21st centuries on the Internet.