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Unit 4 Exploring plants
Student’s book 9
Let’s
enjoy some
beautiful
pictures
Lead in
What is your favorite ? Why?
Show time
Show us your favorite flowers?
Special plants
Pre-reading
Do you know where these plants come from?
Are they Chinese plants or do they come from another country?
Teaching goals:
Review and learn some words and expressions .
2. Find and infer some information according to the reading material.
3. Express your ideas after reading.
exotic adj.外来的
distant adj. 远的---- _______ n.距离
conflict n.斗争
endeavour n. 尽力
anchor n/vi 锚/抛锚
tight adj.紧的---_______ adv.紧紧地
container n.容器---_________ v.包容
restriction n.限制---________ v.限制
_________ adj. 有限的
distance
tightly
contain
restrict
restricted
words and phrases
9.fluency n.流利
----__________ adj.流利的
___________ adv.流利地
10.shave vt.刮----________ n.剃须刀
11.thunderstorm n.雷雨
12.pirate n.海盗
13.appeal vi 对—有吸引力
----_________ adj.有吸引力的
14.botanist n.植物学家
----_______ n.植物学 ________ adj.
fluent
fluently
shaver
appealing
botany
botanical
Scan the title of the
reading passage and
the pictures and predict:
what is it about?
Scanning
Plant Exploration
in the 18th And 19th Centuries
It’s about
what
when
Structure:
Part I:
The _________ of
plant collecting
Part II:
____________ of plants
in the 18th century
Part III:
The invention and
use of_______
Part IV:
The exploration of
Plants __________
(1-2)
(3-4)
( 5-7)
( 8-9)
beginning
Wardian case
The exploration
in the 19th century
2 min’
It’s about
But who? And what exactly did they do?
Skimming
Please find out the names
in the passage and match each person with the thing related to him
Comprehending
Time
People/plants
Historic 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
5 min’
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
Careful reading:
Please find out the answer to the following questions in the quickest way
1.The text is written in the order
of___________.
A. The importance of plant exploration
B. The timeline of plant exploration
C. The collection of plants
D. The age of collectors
主旨大意题
2. The word “ exotic” in the first paragragh probably means______ .
A. familiar
B. foreign
C. faraway
D. various
词义猜测题
3. Transporting plants over long distances was a big problem.
Why was this?
It was hard to keep them alive during
long trips.
B. The weather is bad.
C. It costs too much.
D. There is not enough water.
4. Who first sent seeds of the Dove Tree to Europe?
A. Robert Fortune
B. E.H.Wilson
C. Father Farges
D. Father d’Incarville
,
事实细节题
Consolidation
Please fill the blankets
according to the passage
语法填空
The plants look so familiar____ we often don’t know that many of them are from countries far away, which dates _____ the earliest time. Many plant collectors realized the value of plants from distant lands. _______, the exploration of the botanical world didn’t begin
on _____large scale______the18 and 19th centuries. Of course ,they had many difficulties in the trips, ______ (face) many dangers including disease,
that
from
However
a
until
facing
near-starvation, severe environment and conflicts _______the local people.
The missionaries collected
large ________ (quantity) of specimens, but there were not enough in Western gardens. However, the botanists were very _______ (excite) with the knowledge that China had many kinds of plants, so the collectors _________(send) to China to collect more kinds.
with
quantities
excited
were sent
Summary
Many plants went through ups and downs to arrive in China.We should protect and cherish them.
Homework
Get some information about plant
exploration in the 20th and 21st
centuries on the Internet.