Unit 4 Green World
The birth of a science
Type of lessons: Reading
Teaching aims: 1.To improve the Ss’
reading skills on biography.
2. To help the Ss to know how to get the main idea and detailed information correctly.
Teaching contents: 1.To learn something about some scientists.
2. To focus on a great
scientist Joseph Banks.
3. To do an familiar
reading exercise of NMET
Key points: To improve the Ss’
reading skills on biography.
Teaching aids: Textbooks, radio, recorder, projector, and computer
Teaching procedures:
Pre-reading
Show two pictures to Ss and ask them if they know something about the
classification of botany
What are they?
Do they look the same at the first sight?
In botany, do they belong to the same group?
While-reading
Step 1 Fast
reading for the answers to the above questions.
1) Ask the Ss to read the first
paragraph and get the answers to
the questions.
2). Ask a student to give the answer and the reason.
Step2 Detailed
reading for the facts
1) How many people are mentioned in the first paragraph?
(some scientists and Carl Linnaeus)
2) Ask the Ss to read the first
paragraph carefully and match the following facts with the people
Step 3 Reading for the rest paragraphs and find out the main idea of the six paragraphs.
1. Ask Ss to go over
paragraph 2-7 for some detailed information.
How many people are mentioned? Who are they?
(4, Carl Linnaeus, Daniel Solander, Joseph Banks, James Cook)
What are the six paragraphs
mainly talk about?
(Joseph Banks)
2. Read
paragraph 2-7 again and find out the
sequence of the following sentences according to the text. (Ask the Ss to do it
individually first, then to share their answers with their partners)
① Banks helped to develop the royal gardens at Kew into one of the greatest botanical gardens in the world.
② In London Solander developed a life long friendship with Joseph Banks.
③ Banks made a first journey to study wild plants.
④ Banks moved crops from one
continent to another on a large scale.
⑤ James cook and Joseph Banks had an
expedition to Tahiti.
Answers: (②③⑤④①)
Step 4 Detailed-
reading for
specific information of Banks:
1. Ask the Ss to find out the
relationship between the 4 scientists in pares.
Friends, teacher ,student, coworkers, supporter,
(Carl Linnaeus was the teacher of Solander; Solander and Joseph Banks were good friends; James Cook was the captain of Endeavor through which Solander and Banks made their
research on botany; Banks fulfilled Linnaeus’s
research on botany)
2. Work in groups of four and complete the information about Joseph Banks using key words in the text.
Joseph Banks
Time
Events
Achievements
1743
Was born
/
1759
Developed a
lifelong friendship with Solander
/
1766
Made a first journey
/
1768
Made an
expeditionvoyage with James Cook and
studied new plants he found…
The first move crops from …to …; develop ….
1778
Was elected president of the Royal Society
/
1778-1820
Helped to develop; accumulated…; grew strawberries …; built a
greenhouse …
Made Kew a centre of…
Post-reading
Step 1 Have the Ss to
summarize the main idea of the text.
What was Joseph Banks?
What kind of person do you think Joseph Banks is?
(Brave, hardworking, friendly, contributive…
Ss had better to find the evidences in the text.)
Step 2 Help the Ss to
summarize the way to write a biography.
What should we write when we write about a person?
(B
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