Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending优质课教案整理

Lesson Plan Exploring Plants

(NSEFC Unit 4, Book 9)

汕头市金山中学

陈远贵

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教材分析

1．教材内容：本单元的中心话题是“植物探险”。本节课为本单元第一课时，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。

2．教材课型：阅读课

二．

教学目标

1. 语言能力目标：学习考纲词汇和表达，如distant, conflict, tightly, container, restriction, fluency, share, thunder, storms, date back to, appeal to, not until等等；锻炼速读、略读等阅读技巧，提高分析、处理和利用文本信息的阅读能力。

2. 文化意识目标：了解植物探险的历史，扩大视野，丰富知识，理解植物引进的跨文化现象。

3. 思维品质目标：

提高分类、概括、分析、推断信息的能力，引导学生思考和表达植物引进在跨文化交流中的作用。

4．学习能力目标：培养小组合作学习的习惯，利用网络补充话题知识，拓宽英语学习渠道。

三．教学设计

1. 总体思路

本课的教学设计分为热身(Warming up)、阅读前(pre-reading)、阅读中(Reading)、以及阅读后(Post-reading) 4个部分。首先激活课文背景知识，然后通过让学生完成阅读理解任务使他们学会读懂文章，学会处理和利用信息，最后通过小组讨论，激发学生对文章内容的深度理解。

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教学过程

Step 1.

Warming up Show some pictures about plants and ask Ss a question: Do you know these plants?

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[设计说明]

用一些关于特殊植物的问题和相关图片，引起学生对“植物”这一话题的兴趣。

Step 2.

Pre-reading Ask Ss two questions: 1. Do you have a courtyard garden or some pot plants on your balcony? Do you know where these plants come from? 2. Are they Chinese plants or do they come from other countries?

[设计说明]

该环节旨在引出与下面阅读课文相关的背景知识。

Step 3.

Reading

(1) Skimming: Ask the Ss to divide the passage into 4 parts and summarize the man idea of each part.

Part 1 (para 1-2): the beginning of plant collecting

Part 2 (para 3-4): the exploration of plants in the 18th century

Part 3 (para 5-7): the invention and use of Wardian case Part 4 (para 8-9): the exploration of plants in the 19th century

(2) Scanning: Ask the Ss to match each person to the thing he did.

(b) 1. Father d’Incarville

(f) 2. Sir Joseph Banks

(d) 3. Dr Nathaniel Ward

(c) 4. Father Farges

(e) 5. Robert Fortune

(a) 6. E H Wilson a. collected lots of seeds of the Dove Tree

b. sent Tree of Heaven seeds to England

c. sent the seeds of the Dove Tree back to France

d. shipped two cases of British plants to Sydney

e. shipped 20,000 tea plants to India

f. collected vast quantities of plants in Australia

(3) Detailed reading: Ask the Ss to read the passage carefully and fill in the table. Time In 1500

B.C in the 1740s In 1751

In 1769 In 1784 In 1833

1843-1859

People/plants the Queen of Egypt

Father d’Incarville

Tree of Heaven seeds

Sir Joseph Banks

the Tree of Heaven

Nathaniel Ward

Robert Fortune

Historic Events sent ships to gather plants, animals and other goods

was sent to Beijing

arrived in England

collected plants in Australia

was introduced into

North America

shipped two cases of British plants to Sydney, Australia

made several trips to China

were sent to China from France

During the second half many Catholic missionaries

of the 19th century

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In 1897

In 1899

Father Farges

E H Wilson

sent seeds of Dove Tree from China to France

collected a large quantity of the seeds of the Dove Tree in China

[设计说明] 任务1要求学会快速阅读课文，旨在训练略读技巧，帮助学生理清篇章脉络，掌握文章题材内容。任务2要求学生通过快速阅读，迅速捕捉文章重要信息。任务3旨在使学生对文中信息进行分析加工，提高处理和利用文本信息的能力。

Step 4.

Post reading Ask the Ss to discuss the following questions in groups of four. 1. If you are a botanist from Britain and you are asked by the King to collect plants from China, What plants will you take back home? Why? 2. Do you think plant exploration is meaningful in cultural communication? Why?

[设计说明] 讨论活动旨在培养学生学会利用获得的信息去解决问题的探究能力，激发学生对文章内容的深度理解，深刻理解植物引进咋跨文化交流中的作用，培养跨文化交际意识和能力。

Step 5.

Summary Ask the Ss to summarize the text by filling in the blanks: The plants look so familiar that we often don't know that many of them are from countries far away, which 1.dates (date) back to the earliest times. Many plants 2.collectors (collect) realized the value of the plants from distant lands. 3.However, the exploration of the botanical world didn't begin 4. on a large scale 5. until the 18th and 19th centuries. Of course, they had many difficulties in the trips, 6.facing (face) many dangers including disease, near-starvation, severe environments and 7. conflicts (conflict) with the local people. The missionaries collected large 8. quantities

(quantity) of specimens，but there were not enough in Western gardens. However, the botanists were very 9. excited

(excite) with the knowledge that China has many kinds of plants, so many of them 10. were sent (send) to China to collect more kinds.

[设计说明] 对本节课的学习进行总结梳理，并引发学生对本课重点词汇的关注，加深对这些词汇的初步理解和认知。

Step 6. Homework 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. [设计说明] 加深学生对文章的深层理解，锻炼续写文章的写作能力，并拓宽英语学习渠道，利用网络知识加深对单元主题的理解。

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