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Unit 6 Surprising Plants (Reading further)
I. Teaching Aims:
1. Make students comprehend the habitat, function and word usage of “plant”.
2. Enable students to understand various meaning of “tree” and “rose”.
3. Let students master some useful expressions and idioms about plants and flowers.
II. Teaching Important Points:
1. Master the following words and phrases:
participate in, trace, judge by appearance, judge by deeds, a symbol of, stand for, come
up, No rose without a throne, a bad side.
2. Enable students to understand various meaning of “plant”, “tree” and “rose” in different context.
3. Improve students’ inferring and summarizing ability.
III. Teaching Difficult Points:
1. How to make students understand the text better.
2. How to make students master some useful expressions and idioms related to plants.
IV. Teaching Method:
Task-based teaching
V. Teaching Procedures:
Stage 1: Pre-reading
T asks Ss to solve the following three riddles in pairs:
______________ 1) They are living things that have leaves and roots. They grow in almost every part of the world. They send out oxygen into the air, and also provide food for us.
______________ 2) They can add to the beauty of our surroundings, give us pleasant shade and help make the air clean.
______________ 3) They have a sweet smell but also thorns, and are usually considered to be the symbol of love.
Stage 2: While-reading
Step 1: T asks Ss to read passage A about “plants” and then finish a mind map.
plants
Word usage
habitat
function
Step 2: T asks Ss to draw their own mind maps about “trees” and “roses”
Roses
Trees
Step 3: T asks Ss match the sentences with the given words sharing the similar meanings.
Trees
_______ 1) Trees add to the beauty of our surroundings.
_______ 2) A “family tree” can not be planted.
_______ 3) A tree is known by its fruit.
A. His number is on the top of the telephone tree.
B. As a kid, I loved to climb trees.
C. A tree needs years of growth to be tall.
Roses
_______ 1) The rose is one of the most beautiful of all flowers.
_______ 2) Mary was the rose of the party.
_______ 3) Life won’t be a bed of roses all the way.
Stage 3: Post-reading
1. T asks Ss to find out corresponding idioms related to plants and add more.
2. T asks Ss to circle the idioms about plants and flowers in the following sentences
Then discuss their meaning.
1) Stop beating around the bush. Just tell me what has been decided!
2) The son of the manager started to work at grass-roots level.
3) At the beginning of the interview, the candidate was shaking like a leaf.
4) They are barking up the wrong tree if they think Joey stole the car---he can’t drive!.
5) The witness was a shrinking violet who had difficulty expressing herself.
Stage 4: Self-assessing
T asks Ss to make a self-assessment according what they have learnt in the class.
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