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

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Unit4 Reading comprehension Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

explore, exploration, courtyard, balcony, distant, goods, conflict, anchor, tightly, container, restriction, fluency, shaving, thunderstorm, appeal to, date back to b. 重点句子

1. Collecting “exotic” plants, as they are called, dates back to the earliest times.

2．

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.

3．

Sir Joseph Banks was a very famous British plant collector. Who accompanied James Cook on his first voyage from England to Oceania.

4．

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

5．

This invention, called the Wardian case, allowed plants to be transported on long journeys. 2. Ability goals 能力目标

Learn about the history of plants exploration in the 18th and 19th century.

Learn the meanings or usages of the target words, expressions and sentences. 3. Learning ability goals

学能目标

Help the students learn how to sort out the historical events according to time sequence. Teaching important and difficult points

教学重难点

Help the students have a clear idea of the whole passage by summarizing the topic of each paragraph. Teaching methods

教学方法

Scanning, skimming, question-and-answer and group work. Teaching procedures && ways

教学过程与方式

Step 1 check Ss’ homework for their vocabulary exercise explore,

exploration,

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courtyard,

balcony,

distant,

goods,

conflict,

anchor,

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tightly,

container,

restriction,

fluency,

shaving,

thunderstorm,

appeal to,

date back toGet students talk about what they know about plants and talk about the questions in Warming up. T: We can’t live without plants, right? We eat their fruits, use wood to build houses, grow beautiful flowers in our houses and most importantly, plants produce oxygen. But what do you know about plants? Now turn to Page 31. Read the questions in Warming up activity.

Give students several minutes to discuss these questions. Then let them report what they know about the plants mentioned.

Suggested answers to these questions: 1. Fern, algae(藻类植物), moss ... 2. Orchids, bromeliads, vine, ferns ... 3. Pitcher plant (猪笼草), sundew, bladderwort, Venus flytrap ... 4. Apple tree, sunflower, tulips, orchid, alfalfa (紫花苜蓿) etc. 5. Vine (藤本植物), Chinese dodder (菟丝子) ... 6. Plants are adapted to live in specific environment. For example, moss lives in moist and dark environment. Rose, peony, jasmine, Chinese plum, chrysanthemum grow well in sunshine. If you put them in damp and cold environment, they will not blossom or even die. 7. Yes.

8. Non-seed plants: 藻类(Algae)，地衣(Lichens)，真菌(Fungi)，苔纲(Hepaticae)，藓纲(Musci)，蕨类(Pteridophyte)，植物门(Pteridophyta) Step 4 Reading comprehending Task1. Scanning and filling in the blanks 珍贵文档

Name Queen of the Egypt Father d’ Incarville Sir Joseph Banks Dr. Nathaniel Ward Nationality Egypt When What did he do Around Sent ships away to gather plants, animals, and 1500BC other goods. 1740s Collected and sent seeds of trees and bushes including those of the Tree of Heaven. Collected examples of plants and animals whenever they went onto dry land. Invented a tightly sealed portable glass container. Introduced over 120 species of plants to Western French British 1769 British 1833 Robert Fortune British 1843-18gardens but also shipped 20,000 tea plants from 59 Shanghai to India, where a successful tea industry was established. Father Fages E H Wilson Task2

French French 1890s 1899 Collected 37 seeds from a tree Collected a large quantity of seeds of the Dove Tree. 1. careful reading and summarizing the main idea of each para Suggested main idea for each paragraph: Para. 1 The history of bringing back plants from other countries dates back to the earliest times.

Para. 2 In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, plant exploration began on a large scale as some European countries moved into other parts of the world.

Para. 3 In the middle of the 18th century, missionary Father d’Incarville sent some seeds of trees and bushes he collected in Beijing to England.

Para. 4 British plant collector Sir Joseph Banks traveled from England to Oceania and collected a large number of plants in Australia.

Para. 5 How to keep plants alive during the long trip is a big challenge for plants collectors.

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Para. 6 The invention of the Wardian case helped plants to survive long journeys.

Para. 7 Robert Fortune, as one of the earliest plant collector to use Wardian cases, not only introduced many plants from China to Western gardens.

Para. 8 In the second half of the nineteenth century, many French Catholic missionaries collected plants in China and sent them back to France.

Para. 9 European botanists were very excited to know that China had a large number of plants, so they went to China for plants collecting.

Task3 the structure of the passage Group work

Divide the passage into 4part according to the given summary

Part1

para ____1-2____

the beginning of plant collecting

Part 2

para ____3-4____

the exploration of plants in the 18th century the invention and use of Wardian case the exploration of plants in the 19th centry

Part 3

para ___5-7_____

Part4

para __8-9______

Step 5

Groupwork 1、

Read the passage to have a better understanding of the passage 2、

Understand the following sentences by translating them 1. Collecting “exotic” plants, as they are called, dates back to the earliest times.

2．

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.

3．

Sir Joseph Banks was a very famous British plant collector. Who accompanied James Cook on his first voyage from England to Oceania.

4．

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

5．

This invention, called the Wardian case, allowed plants to be transported on long

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