Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教案和学案内容

Unit4

Exploring plants The first period Reading Step I. Warming up

How much do you know about plants? Step II Skimming Read the passage quickly and try to get the main idea of this passage. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________StepIII.

Detailed reading

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

in 1751

in

1769

in 1784

in 1833

1843-1859 People/plants

Father

d’ Incarville Tree of Heaven seeds The tree of

Heaven tree Nathaniel Ward

Historic Events

Sir Joseph Banks shipped two cases of British

plants to Sydney

were sent to China from France During these many Catholic

condhalf missionaries of the19th century

In 1899

1 Father Farges

E H Wilson send seed of Dove Tree from China to France

Step IV. Important words and expressions:

1. date back to / date from 追溯到（此短语多用于一般现在时态中，

且无被动语态,无进行时，但可用现在分词作定语）

拓展: （1）out of date 过时的

（2）to date 到目前为止

（3）up to date 新式的

His interest in stamp collecting

his school days.

A. is dated from

B. dates back to

C. is dated back to

D. dates

2. bring back 1) 归还,带回

If you borrow my electric drill, don’t forget to bring it back.

2) 使回想

Seeing you brought back many memories.

相关短语：

bring about

______________

bring down_____________

bring forward

____________

bring in ______________

bring on_________

bring out___________ 3. However it was not until … that the exploration… began….

It is/was not until…that…

直到……才

It was not until the 1880s that there were consistent experimental findings to support his theory. Not until I began to study did I realize how much time I had wasted.

4. Brave young men took the opportunity of going on botanical expeditions, often facing many dangers including disease, near-starvation, severe environments and conflicts with the local people.

Translation:___________________________________________________ conflict是名词，意为“冲突，斗争”，

常构成短语有：in conflict有矛盾，有冲突；in conflict with和…有矛盾和…不一致；bring sb into conflict使某人与…发生争执等等。

In dealing with public relations, we should make every effort to prevent the _____ in personality.

A. contact

B. contrast

C. connection

D. conflict 5. quantity

n，量，数量，总量，

quantity前可用huge, good, great, large，small, vast等词语修饰。

As a result of destroying the forests, a large____ of desert ___ covered the land.

A. number…

has

B. quantity…has

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C. number…have

D. quantity …have

“a large quantity of + 可数名词复数”作主语，相当于“a large number of + 可数名词复数”

作主语，谓语用复数；“a large quantity of + 不可数名词”作主语，相当于“a large amount of + 不可数名词”作主语，谓语一般情况下用单数，但如果“quantities of+不可数名词”作主语，谓语用复数。

6．appeal vi. to be attractive or interesting to sb. 表示“（常与to连用）吸引；引起兴趣”，还表示“呼吁，恳请，上诉，诉诸”等，

如

Does the idea of working for a venture company appeal to you?

The government is appealing to everyone to save water.

He appealed against the judge's decision. 【拓展】appeal

n，呼吁，请求，吸引力，

呼吁, 请求

appeal to sb. for help He appealed to his friends for support. 从a-d中找出与每句话中appeal 相符合的意思。

1. The government is appealing to everyone to save water.

2. When Mother said “No,” my little sister would appeal to Father. 3. Does the idea of working for a venture company appeal to you? 4. He appealed against the judge’s decision. a. 对…有吸引力

b. 求助于

c. 上诉

d. 向……呼吁

【随时练】The design ______all the ages and social groups is not easy to make.

A. appealed to

B. being appealed to

C. to be appealed to

D. appealing to 7. postpone vt. 推迟，延期

postpone doing sth 表示“推迟做某事”常与介词till/until/ to连用，

如：We postponed the match from March 5th to March 19th.

The ball game was postponed because of the heavy rain. 【拓展】区别delay/ postpone / put off

均含“推迟”、“延期”、“延缓”的意思。

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delay 指“暂时阻挠或阻挡, 稍后可再继续进行”,

The steamer was delayed by bad weather. 汽轮因天气不佳而延期。

②

postpone是正式用语, 语义较强, 指“有意识地延至将来某一特定时间”, 在多数情况下, 后面说明改在何时进行,

The meeting has been postponed to Friday. 会议推迟到星期五举行。

③

put off与postpone大致同义, 但较通俗口语化,

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Let's put this off till some other time. 我们还是把这搁一搁, 以后再说吧。

【随时练】

We’ve had to postpone ________ to France because Adrian’s got an interview for a job that week.

A. going

B. go

C. to go

D. to going Step. V Exercises 一、根据下列各句句意及所给单词的首字母或汉语提示，写出该单词的正确形式。

1. He said that he was born and brought up in a d______ village. 2. When dealing with public relations, we should try to avoid personal c______. 3. The t______ character of his design is apparent in the splendid decorations. 4. I’ll buy the MP3 on condition that you l____ the price. 5. It is well known that all work and no play makes Jack a d___ boy. 6. The baseball game was p______ because of the bad weather. 7. Be careful with that china. It’s very ______ (易碎的). 8. The government placed many ______ (限制) on foreign trade. 9. The original problem has ______ (演变) into something quite different. 10. People built a _________ (纪念碑) in his honor.

二、Translation

1. 植物收集可以追溯到18世纪。

_________________________________________________________

2. 当时有许多植物收集家经历了许多艰难去其他国家收集植物。

_________________________________________________________ 3. 他们所做的事情促进了世界各国植物品种的相互交流。

______________________________________________________ 4. 我们今天在花园里看到的许多植物或许来自遥远的国家。

______________________________________________________ 5. 我们应该珍惜并保护好这些珍稀植物。

______________________________________________________ 运用合适的关联词把上面的几句话连成一段小文章。

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