Unit 2 Plant a Plant ! Lesson 11 课件2023-2024学年冀教版八年级英语下册

Unit 2 Plant a Plant ! Lesson 11 Amazing Plants How many plants can you name? Have you ever heard about any special plants? Look at this plant. Its flowers look like egrets. What are egrets? They are a kind of bird. Because this plant’s flowers look like flying egrets, people call it the egret flower. It grows in eastern Asia, Isn't it beautiful? [ i r t] n. 白鹭 A flying flower? [ i st n] adj. 东部的 Can plants be shy? [ a ] adj. 害羞的;腼腆的 We all know that people can be shy. But how can a plant be shy? When something touches this plant's leaves,they close up tightly. After a few minutes, the leaves open up again. This plant is fun for small children to play with. [ ta tli] adv.紧紧地 Penple can laugh! Do you know a plant can also laugh? What makes a tree laugh? When it comes to laughing, this tree is really funny.This is because the fruit of this tree has a hole in it.If the wind blows, this amazing tree “laughs”. When people first hear it laughing, they are usually quite surprised and begin to laugh along with the tree. It grows in the middle of Africa. Do you know about fossil ? [ f sl] n. 化石 Have you ever heard about a living fossil ? [ l v ] adj. 活的 Can a fossil be alive? Look at this plant. It grows in the southwest of Africa. Like most plants, it has roots. But it has only two leaves and a stem. Its two leaves continue to grow for its whole life. Does it look old? This plant can live as long as 1500 years, so people call it a living fossil. egret eastern shy tightly fossil southwest living n. 白鹭 adj. 东方的;东部的 adj. 害羞的 adv. 紧紧地;牢固地 n. 化石 n. & adj. 西南(的) adj. 活着的 New words Phrases close up open up When it comes to along with in the middle of as long as a living fossil continue to do 合起来;收起来 张开;打开 当提到;就...而论 和...一起 在...的中间 和...一样长 一个活化石 继续做某事(另一件事) continue doing 继续做同一件事 to为介词 知识点讲解 1. Isn’t it beautiful ? 否定疑问句:表示“惊讶,反问,赞美,期待,批评等” 注意回答:如果事实是肯定的,用Yes 如果事实是否定的,用No Won’t you come in for a few minutes? 你可否进来几分钟? Yes,I will.(不,我将进来) No,I won’t.(是的,我不进来) 2. This plant can live