Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending课程导入及其完整教案

Unit 4

Exploring Plants Warming up，Pre-reading，Reading，Comprehending Teaching Plan 汕头市金山中学

黄晓洁

Teaching goals

Target language 1. Key words and phrases explore, exploration, courtyard, balcony, distant, goods, conflict, anchor, tightly, container, restriction, fluency, shaving, thunderstorm, appeal to, date back to 2. Key sentences a. Collecting “exotic” plants, as they are called, dates back to the earliest times.

b. 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.

c. Sir Joseph Banks was a very famous British plant collector. Who accompanied James Cook on his first voyage from England to Oceania? 21·c

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

e. This invention, called the Wardian case, allowed plants to be transported on long journeys. Ability goals

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. Learning ability goals

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

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

Scanning, skimming, question-and-answer and group work.

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Teaching procedures

Step 1

Lead-in Get students to talk about what they know about plants.

1. What on earth do plants benefit us?

2. What are the important things plants provide? Step 2

Warming Up Answer the questions in Warming Up. Step 3

Reading comprehending 1. Ask students to skim the passage for 1 minute and find out the names in the passage and match each person with the thing related to him. 1. Father d’Incarville

Tree of heaven 2. Sir Joseph Banks

Collection of seeds in Australia 3. Dr Nathaniel Ward

Invention of Wardian case 4. Robert Fortune

Tea plants to India

5. Father Farges

6. E H Wilson

Discovery of the Dove Tree

Seeds of Dove Tree 2. Introduce the people mentioned in the passage to the students. 3. Ask students to read the passage (5 minutes) and divide the passage into 4 parts. Try to summarize the main idea for each part Part I (Para1-2)

The beginning of plant collecting Part II (Para3-4)

The exploration of plants in the 18th century Part III (Para5-7)

The invention and use of Wardian case Part IV (Para8-9)

The exploration of plants in the 19th century 4. Ask students to decide whether the following statements are true of false. 1) The plants in our garden grew in China originally.

(F) 2) The American Middle Classes took great interest in collecting new plants during the 18th and 19th centuries. (F) 3) French Catholic missionaries were beginning to set themselves up in China by the middle of the 18th century. (T) 4) After Father d’ Incarville died, some Tree of Heaven seeds were sent to England. (F) 5) Banks, together with James Cook, collected many examples of plants in Australia. (T) 2

6) Keeping plants alive during long land or sea voyage was very difficult, which caused the

Wardian Case to be invented. (T) 7) Robert Fortune introduced over 120 species of plants to Western Gardens, because he could easily travel everywhere in China. (F) 8) During the second half of the 19th century, many Catholic missionaries were sent to China, and they collected many seeds of plants, which were sent back to France. (T) 5. Ask students work in groups and finish the table. (4 students a group) Name Queen of the Egypt Father

d’ Incarville

Sir Joseph Banks Dr. Nathaniel Ward Nationality Egypt When Around What did he do 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- 1859 gardens but also shipped 20,000 tea plants from Shanghai to India, where a successful tea industry was established. Father Fages E H Wilson Step 4

Homework French French 1890s 1899 Collected 37 seeds from a tree Collected a large quantity of seeds of the Dove Tree. From the passage, we also learned some new words and phrases.

Please make sentences with the following words and phrases and write them on your exercise book: date back to, distant, conflict, tightly, fluency, appeal to. 3