旧人教版高三英语全一册 Unit4 Green World.doc

Unit 4 Green World Teaching aims: Goals: Talk about botany; Speak about procedure; Review the Object; Write a description of plants Special focus: Improve reading skills and Enlarge vocabulary. Direct Ss to read the 3 passages on the text book; Guide Ss to learn to use the following words and expressions: Tulip, sunflower, peony, strawberry, lemon, hemp, cosy, accumulated, abandon, promote, astronomy, appetite, calculate, identification, pass away, species, category, privilege Period 1 Reading The birth of a science (on P30) Step 1. Warming up Task 1. Speaking: Do the oral practice on p29. The procedure of growing soybeans. Step 2. Reading Task 2. Scan the passage for information and try to answer the question: Why was Carl Linnaeus important to the history of botany as a science? Step 3. Post-reading Task 3: Answering the questions on p31-32; Step 4. Homework Finish all the exercises on Word Study and Grammar on p32--34. Period 2. Integrating Reading Skills Wildlife and Garden Roses (p34-35) Step 1. Revision Check how further the Ss know about botany. Tulip, sunflower, peony, strawberry, lemon, hemp, potato, bean, cotton, radish, carrot, etc. Check the homework. If necessary, give some examples to review the Object. Exercise 1-4 on p164 is specially designed to check the Ss if they are familiar with the Object. Step 2. Read the passage and finish the exercises attached to the passage. Step 3. Extensive Reading: The New Eugenics: Genetic Engineering by Jack A. Palmer, author of the brilliant book Evolutionary Psychology, The Ultimate Origins of Human Behavior The key difference between natural selection and selective breeding is that selective breeding is always based on value judgments. Natural selection in is an automatic process that is wholly indifferent to concepts such as good and bad, beautiful and ugly, strong and weak, noble or loathsome. Natural selection revolves wholly around reproductive via