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冀教版
八年级下册
英语
2024
Unit 2
Plant a Plant!
Lesson 11
Amazing Plants
How many plants can you name?
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Have you ever heard about any special plants?
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Lead in
Amazing plants
sensitive plant
含羞草
egret flower
白鹭花
monkey-bread tree
猴面包树
a living fossil
百岁兰
Succulent
多肉
Catchfly
捕蝇草
Dracaena
龙血树
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
□ When you touch this kind of plant, it closes up
tightly.
□ This plant can live as long as 1 500 years. It really
is a fossil.
□ Look at these flowers! They look like flying egrets!
□ This amazing tree laughs when the wind blows.
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Listening
Listen and number the sentences.
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Let’s Do It!
Read the lesson and fill in the table.
Plant Place Feature
South America, China and other countries. When something touches its leaves, they close up tightly. After a few minutes, they open up again.
Eastern Asia
This plant’s flowers look like flying egrets.
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Reading
Let’s Do It!
Plant Place Feature
The middle of Africa.
If the wind blows, this amazing tree “laughs”.
The southwest of Africa.
It has only two leaves and a stem. This plant can live as long as 1 500 years.
Fill in the blanks with the correct words. The first letter is given.
1. Don’t t_______ the dish! It’s very hot!
2. China is a country in e________ Asia.
3. He was too s_____ to talk to others.
4. She cut her hair very short and everyone was
s__________ by her new look.
ouch
astern
hy
urprised
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A flying flower?
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?
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Can plants be shy?
We all know that people can be shy. But how can a plant be shy? When something touches this plant’s l