牛津版英语选修9 Unit 4 Exploring plants-reading.doc

Unit 4 Exploring plants-reading Part One: Teaching Design Period 1: A sample lesson plan for reading (PLANT EXPLORATION IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES) Aims To help students develop their reading ability To help students learn exploring plants Procedures ■Warming up by defining plants Plants are a major group of living things (about 300,000 species), including familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, and ferns. Aristotle divided all living things between plants, which generally do not move or have sensory organs, and animals. In Linnaeus system, these became the Kingdoms Vegetabilia (later Plantae) and Animalia. Since then, it has become clear that the Plantae as originally defined included several unrelated groups, and the fungi and several groups of algae were removed to new kingdoms. However, these are still often considered plants in many contexts. Indeed, any attempt to match plant with a single taxon is doomed to fail, because plant is a vaguely defined concept unrelated to the presumed phylogenic concepts on which modern taxonomy is based. Warming up by talking about different gardens Gardens vary in forms and functions. How many can you see in your area? Gardens may function in a particular manner Botanical garden, Community garden, Forest garden, Raised bed gardening, Residential garden, Roof garden, Vertical garden, Water or soil-less gardening (hydroponics) , Walled garden, Windowbox, Zoological garden ■Warming up by discussing gardening Gardening is the activity of growing and maintaining the garden. This work is done by an amateur or professional gardener. A gardener might also work in a non-garden setting, such as a park, a roadside embankment, or other public space. Landscape architecture is a related professional activity with landscape architects tending to specialise in design for public and corporate clients. I. Pre-reading What is a garden? A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and en