Unit4 Exploring planets Warming up, pre-reading and reading课件（27张PPT）

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高中三年级 人教版 学科 英语
英语选修九
Unit 4 Exploring Plants
Warming up, pre-reading and reading
Learning objectives:

At the end of class, students will be able to
Know more about plant exploration in the 18th
and 19th centuries;
2. Learn adventurous spirit from plant explorers;
3. Improve their reading skills especially in careful
reading.
Warming up
How much do you know about plants?
Can you tell the name of the flower?
Tulip
Tulips are beautiful
flowers and people often send them to their friends as presents.
Sunflower
It comes from North
America.Indians there
began to grow them
some 3000 years ago .
Peony
the Chinese national flower
Rose
Roses are best presents to be sent to friends. And it is also very popular to send roses as love signal between young people. Red roses indicate warmth and love and white ones, purity and simplicity, blue ones, honesty and sincerity.
Task 1 Please think about the following questions
1. Why do we call carrots “Huluobo”?
2. Why do some people call tomatoes “Fanqie”?
3. Can you give us some other plants which come
from foreign countries?

4. Scan the title of the reading passage and the pictures and predict what it is about?
Plant Exploration in the 18th And 19th centuries
Pre-reading
Dr Nathaniel Ward
Robert Fortune
E H Wilson
Joseph Banks
The Wardian case
Dove Tree
Task 2 Finish the phrases
1. plant _________ 植物探索
2. look _________ 看起来熟悉的
3. date _____ _____ 追溯到
4. on a large ______ 大规模地
5. take _____ _____ in 对…产生极大的兴趣
6. go on ______ _____ 进行植物探险
7. _______ plants 奇异的植物
8. vast ______ of plants 大量的植物
9. _______ on … 关于…的约束、限制
10. appeal ______ 对…有吸引力；呼吁
exploration
familiar
back to
scale
great interest
botanical
expeditions
exotic
quantities
restrictions
to
Task 3 Try to get the main idea of each paragraph:
Para 1:
explains when plant collecting ________.
Para 2:
when and where plant collecting began________________.
Para 3:
French _________________ collected plants in _______.
Fast reading
Para 4:
Para 5:
Para 6:
Para 7:
Para 8:
Para 9:
Sir Joseph Banks collected ___________ in Australia.
the _________ of keeping plants alive on long trips.
Dr Nathaniel Ward invented_______________
Robert Fortune ____________ to China in the 19th century.
_____________ collected plants in China in the 19th century.
___________________________ introduced many new plants to Western garden from China.
began
on a large scale
Catholic missionaries
China
many new plants
problems
the Wardian case
made several trips
Father Farges
E H Wilson and other plant collectors
Task 4 What happened in these years?
Please fill in the form.
Time
People/plants
Historical Events
In 1500
B.C
Father
d’Incarville
sent ships to gather plants, animals and other goods
the Queen of Egypt
in the 1740s
was sent to Beijing



tree of Heaven seeds
collected plants in Australia
In 1784
the Tree of Heaven tree
In 1751
arrived in England
In 1769
Sir Joseph Banks
was introduced into
North America



In 1833
shipped two cases of British Plants to Sydney
Robert
Fortune
During the second half of the 19th
century
were sent to China from France
Nathaniel
Ward
1843-1859
made several trips to China
many
Catholic
missionaries



Father Farges
collected a large quantity of the seeds of the Dove Tree in China
In 1897
sent seeds of Dove Tree
From China to France
In 1899
E H Wilson


Task5 Read the text carefully and match each person to the thing he did.
1. Father d’Incarville
2. Sir Joseph Banks
3. Dr Nathaniel Ward
4. Father Farges
5. Robert Fortune
6. E H Wilson
b
f
d
c
e
a
Careful reading
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
Task 6 T or F Questions:
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.
4. After Father d’ Incarville died, some Tree of Heaven seeds were sent to England.
F
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.
7. Robert Fortune introduced over 120 species of plants to Western Gardens, because he could easily travel everywhere in China.
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.
F
Task7 Discussion
What have you learned from this passage?






2. Which paragraphs impressed you most? Why?
a. The adventurous spirit of botanist
b. Learn to overcome difficulties
c. Unlock the mysteries of nature continuously
d. Share natural resources in the world
………
Para 2 The reason why I like it is that….
Para 6 ……
Para7 ……
Homework
1. Finish off the exercises in the workbook.
2. Learn the text by heart.
Thank you