Unit5 Revealing nature Developing ideas Reading 课件-2025-2026学年高中英语外研版选择性必修第一册

该高中英语课件围绕“植物的交流方式”展开，通过Pre-reading的图片选择（如判断植物能否攻击、移动等）和《阿凡达》树木交流的讨论导入，结合Fast reading的略读（梳理各段主旨）与扫读（完成信息图表），再到While-reading中拟人手法的讲解，构建从兴趣激活到信息获取再到语言深化的学习支架。 其特色在于融合语言能力、思维品质与学习能力培养，如Pre-reading的讨论活动提升语言表达能力，Fast reading的图表填空任务训练信息筛选与逻辑梳理（思维品质），Language points中“wood wide web”类比“world wide web”助知识迁移（学习能力）。采用任务型教学，学生在实践中提升语言运用与思维能力，教师可借此高效落实阅读策略与语言知识教学。

Unit 5 Revealing nature Developing ideas — Reading 1 目录 contents Pre-reading I Post-reading IV Fast reading II Language points Ⅴ While-reading III VI Homework 2 I Pre-reading 3 Pre-reading: Lead-in Look at the pictures and tick what plants can do. attack breathe eat sleep move speak steal think 4 Pre-reading: Lead-in Now talk about what else you think plants can do and give examples. In Avatar, trees can communicate with animals and people. 5 II Fast reading 6 Fast reading: Skimming Read the passage and find out the ways in which plants communicate. They can communicate with each other by using chemicals, sound and “wood wide web”. 7 Fast reading: Skimming Read for the main idea of each paragraph. Para 1 Para 2 Para 3 Many cultures have stories of talking trees. New research has revealed something amazing: it appears that plants can communicate. Plants use chemicals to communicate with each other. 8 Fast reading: Skimming Read for the main idea of each paragraph. Para 4 Para 5 Para 6 Plants also use sound to communicate. Plants have an amazing system of communication called “wood wide web”. Scientists are learning more about the secret ways in which plants talk to each other. 9 Fast reading: Scanning Organise information from the passage and complete the diagram. Modern research is showing that plants can 1 _______________ _______________. Using chemicals ♦The plant releases chemicals 2 _____________ that are being eaten. ♦When another plant detects the chemicals, it starts to 3 _________________________________. communicate with each other from the leaves release its own, different chemicals 10 Fast reading: Scanning Using sound ♦Some plants make noises 4 _____________. ♦A chilli plant can 5 ___________________________ ____________________. ♦Some trees make 6 ___________________________ _____________________________________. with their roots tell if a neighbouring plant is helpful, or unfriendly clicking noises when there is not enough water, indicating drought is arriving Organise information from the passage and complete the diagram. 11 Fast reading: Scanning Using the “wood wide web” This fungal network links 7 ______________________ _________________. Plants can 8 ___________________________ with each other. Plants can 9 ___________________________________ _______ to attack other plants. the roots of different plants to each other share information and even food steal food from each other, or spread poisons Maybe one day we will be able to “talk” with plants. Organise information from the passage and complete the diagram. 12 III While-reading 13 While-reading: Learning to learn 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. 14 Language points V 15 1. communicate vt & vi 传达，表达 communicate … to 传送给…… communicate with 与……联系，与……相通 Language points: Important words 1) 小组成员必须通过角色扮演互相交流。 2) 他们成功地把知识传授给他人。 Group members have to communicate with each other through role-play. They successfully communicate their knowledge to others. 16 2. detect / detective detect 发觉；察觉；探测 detective 侦探 Language points: Important words 1）一位知名侦探已发现了他的秘密。 2）他发现他的小弟弟正在阳台上抽烟。 A well-known detective has detected his secret. He detected his little brother smoking in the balcony. 17 1. give advice _____________________ 2. be said to _____________________ 3. communicate … with _____________________ 4. get attacked _____________________ 5. release … from _____________________ 6. drive away _____________________ 给出建议 据说 与……交流 遭受攻击 从……释放 Language points: Important lexical chunks 把……赶走 18 7. make noises _____________________ 8. after all _____________________ 9. more surprisingly _____________________ 10. be similar to _____________________ 11. link … to _____________________ 12. steal … from _____________________ 发出噪音 毕竟 更令人吃惊的是 和……类似 把……和……连接起来 Language points: Important lexical chunks 从……偷…… 19 Paraphrase: It is said that Alexander the Great and Marco Polo had gone to see a tree like that in India. 1. Alexander the Great and Marco Polo were said to have visited such a tree in India. Language points: Important sentences sb be said to do = It is said that sb … = People say sb … 据说某人做了某事 据说 1）据说Darwin是《物种起源》一书的作者。 It is said that Darwin is the writer of the book On the Origin of Species. 20 2) 据说他是一位有名的作家。 3）据说那辆车是他偷来的。 It is said that he is a famous writer. = He is said to be a famous writer. Language points: Important sentences It is said that he stole that car. = He is said to have stolen that car. 21 2. With us long believing that talking plants are fantasy, new research has revealed something amazing: it appears that plants can communicate after all. Language points: Important sentences with + 名词 / 代词 + 非谓语动词 Paraphrase: While we have believed for a long time that talking plants are unreal, new research has found out something amazing: it seems that plants can talk to each other after all. 22 Language points: Important sentences with + 名词 / 代词 + 非谓语动词 1）由于Tim的引导，我们毫不费力地找到了目的地。 2）有好多工作有待完成，他很焦虑。 3）问题解决了，他如释重负。 With Tim guiding us, we had no difficulty in finding the destination. With a lot of work to do, he felt anxious. With the problem settled, he felt relieved. 23 2. With us long believing that talking plants are fantasy, new research has revealed something amazing: it appears that plants can communicate after all. Language points: Important sentences Don’t scold him anymore. After all, he is still a little kid. 毕竟，终究 别再批评他了，他毕竟还是个小孩。 24 3. This happens when a plant, say a bean plant, gets attacked by insects. Language points: Important sentences 1）假定你的计划失败了，那么我们怎么办呢? 2) 我们假设你是对的。 Say your plan fails, then what do we do? 认为，假定，比如说 Let’s say that you are right. Paraphrase: When a plant like a bean plant is attacked by insects, this happens. 25 4. Scientists call this system the “wood wide web.” Language points: Important sentences 源于互联网词汇 world wide web “Wood wide web” means an amazing system of communication that can link nearly every plant in a forest. It is linked underground by fungi and this fungal network links the roots of different plants to each other. Using the wood wide web, plants can share information and even food with each other. 26 Homework VI 27 Homework Use the words and expressions you have learned to write an essay about how plants communicate with each other. 28 $