Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学实录及点评

Reading

教学内容： Plant exploration in the 18th

and 19th

centuries Teaching goals:

1. Target language: new words and sentence structure 2. Ability goals: Enable students to gain some knowledge about idioms, understand their original meanings and learn about their practical usage in English. 3. Learning ability goals: Students are expected to practice and reinforce their reading comprehension and improve their overall ability. 二、Teaching important and difficult points Gain some knowledge about idioms, and improve their overall ability 三、Teaching aids A tape recorder and a computer. 四、Teaching procedures and ways Step I Lead-in 1. Show pictures to students, and introduce something about the Bible. 2.Step 2. 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’) Students answer T or F Questions

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. Step 4. Post-reading Help Liang Qiming find out who made the greatest contribution in plant exploration in the 18th and 19th centuries. 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.