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大连市第二十高级中学外语组 卫莉 Unit Four Green World Period two Reading A Birth of A Science Goals: 1 provide the students opportunities to know about a birth of a science . 2 educate the students to have a brief and determination to fulfill a task. 3 improve students’ abilities of reading comprehension Teaching important points : 1 the understanding of the text . 2 the use of some words and phrases Teaching difficulities: the deep understanding of the text and master some key phrases and sentence patterns. The teaching methods: Task-assigned method The teaching tools: multi-media Teaching procedures: Lead in : (give them some pictures on the screen by watching slides) Good morning , friends. --- Do you recognize any of the products in the pictures? what are they used for ? ---Where do these products come from ?which countries produce them? ---How were they known to the world and spread to other countries? (give the students a portrait of Joseph Banks)First,let us know sth about the great man .Because of his endeavour and contribution , we today know how botany was born . Now let’s come to our text “ The Birth Of A Science”. Task 1: fast reading for the type of the writing of the text and try to find the general ideas of every paragraph . type of writing and summary of the idea This is a piece of narrative writing . The main ideas of the passage : the text tells about how Botany originated and developed into a new science. The general ideas of each paragraph: 1 paragraph: Carl Linnaeus was the first to group plants in families. 2 Daniel Solander traveled to promote Linnaeus’ new system in 1759. 3 Goseph Banks made a first journey to study wild plants in 1766. 4 Joseph Banks went to record, classify and describe plant and animal life in 1768. 5 Josep Banks had to supply money to equip the botany expedition. 6 On the voyage, Joseph Banks not only studied and described new plants,but also looked out for new economic species. 7 Joseph Banks returned in 177