高三 uint14 Reading.ppt

Unit 14 Zoology Reading honeycomb Careful reading Para.1 a brief introduction of the bee Q: Why is it the honey-bee that has interested scientists most? Para.3-4 the circle dance and the wagging dance the wagging dance Homework Read the text time and time again, and underline some difficult language points that you don’t understand. The dancer ran in a straight line, wagging from side to side. Then it turned in a semicircle, ran straight again, and turned in another semicircle to the opposite side. It kept the “steps” over and over. Para.5 The number of wagging dances indicates the exact distance to the feeding place. 1. What did the scientists discover? They discovered that the farther away the feeding station was, the slower the dance was. 2. What a maximum distance do the bees fly? Bees fly a maximum distance of 3.2 kilometres between their hive and a feeding place. What was the remaining question for Professor von Frisch and his partners? Para.6 The remaining question was to find out whether bees could tell each other the exact position of a feeding place. To make a beeline for someone or something means: Para.7 To go quickly along a straight course for somebody or something. Para.8 Karl von Frisch Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch won the 1973 Nobel Prize in physiology(生理学) or medicine. He discovered a number of pioneering breakthroughs in animal behavior. There are many _________ of bee. Among the different types of bee, it is the honey-bee that has most interested scientists because of the “language” they use to _______________ with each other. The scientists Von Frisch built special hives to find out how one bee communicate the news of food to the other bees in the hive. varieties communicate Post-reading To his _____________, the bee who found the feeding place began to _________ a dance on the ________ of the honeycomb. The dance seemed to _______ the surrounding bees. They _________ behi