Unit 5 Revealing nature Developing ideas 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第一册

The Secret Language of Plants 英语 高二 上学期 外研版 attack eat breathe move sleep speak steal think Tick what plants can do. Leading-in ： flytrap mimosa pea Predict：What will be talked about in the passage? Before- reading: Prediction 3 Now read the passage and check predictions. Then try to figure out the structure of the whole text and the genre of the passage. Global reading: The structure of the whole text P1-2 P3 P4 P5 P6 Exposition Learning to learn: While analyzing the structure, pay attention to those transitional words and sentences . Global reading: While-reading: Part 1 Para 1 Talking plants have long been a thing of myths and legends. Many cultures have stories of talking trees that give advice as well as warnings to people. Alexander the Great and Marco Polo were said to have visited such a tree in India. And in some modern stories, such as the film Avatar, trees can communicate with animals and people. Para 2 With us long believing that talking plants are fantasy, new research has revealed something amazing: it appears that plants can communicate after all. Read and find the answer: 1.What` s the function of Para 1? 6 While-reading: Part 2 Read and find the answers: 1.What are the ways in which plants communicate? 2.What are the benefits of studying plant communication? chemicals a bean plant attack insects another bean plant release release detect different chemicals attract wasp kill drive away Plants use_________to communicate. chemicals While-reading: Para 3 1. What figure of speech is being used when the plants are described as a calling for help? What`s its function? Personification. It can make descriptions more vivid. Personification means giving human characteristics to something that is not human. By using human characteristics to describe an object, animal or even a place, personification can make descriptions more vivid. Learning to learn Deep-thinking: 9 with their roots can tell if a neighboring plant is helpf