1、新课标人教版课件系列高中英语选修选修(模块）模块）9-9-4.5Reading How much do you know about plants?Skimming Read the passage quickly and try to get the main idea of this passage?Reading ScanningT or F Questions:1.The plants in our garden grew in China originally.F2.The American Middle Classes took great interest in collecti
2、ng new plants during the 18th and 19th centuries.F_3.French Catholic missionaries were beginning to set themselves up in China by the middle of the 18th century.4.After Father d Incarville died,some Tree of Heaven seeds were sent to England.F5.Banks,together with James Cook,collected many examples o
3、f plants in Australia.6.Keeping plants alive during long land or sea voyage was very difficult,which caused the Wardian Case to be invented.7.Robert Fortune introduced over 120 species of plants to Western Gardens,because he could easily travel everywhere in China.8.During the second half of the 19t
4、h century,many Catholic missionaries were sent to China,and they collected many seeds of plants,which were sent back to France.FDetailed reading:Try to get the main idea of each paragraph:Para 1:explains when plant collecting began.Para 2:describes when and where plant collecting began on a large sc
5、ale by Europeans.Para 3:talks about French Catholic missionaries who collected plants in China in the 18th century.Para 4:is about the famous British plant collector,Sir Joseph Banks,who collected many new plants in Australia.Para 5:explains the problems of keeping plants alive on long trips.Para 6:
6、describes an experiment carried out by Dr Nathaniel Ward who invented a glass case in which to transport plants on long journeys.Para 8:is about Father Farges,a French Catholic missionary who collected plants in China in the 19th century.Para 7:is about Robert Fortune,a British plant collector who m
7、ade several trips to China in the 19th century.Para 9:Describes how many European plant collectors,such as E H Wilson,went to China so that new plants could be introduced to gardens in the West.Structure:Part I:Para1-2 the beginning ofplant collecting Part II:Para3-4 the explorationof plants in the
8、18th centuryPart III:Para 5-7 the invention and use of Wardian casePart IV:Para 8-9 the exploration of plants in the 19th centry ComprehendingTimePeople/plantsHistoric EventsIn 1500 B.CFather dIncarvillesent ships to gather plants,animals and other goodsthe Queen of Egyptin the 1740swas sent to Beij
9、ing tree of Heaven seedscollected plants in AustraliaIn 1784the Tree of Heaven treeIn 1751arrived in EnglandIn 1769Sir Joseph Bankswas introduced into North AmericaIn 1833shipped two cases of British Plants to SydneyRobert FortuneDuring the second half of the 19th centurywere sent to China from Fran
10、ceNathaniel Ward1843-1859made several trips to Chinamany Catholic missionariesFather Fargescollected a large quantity of the seeds of the Dove Tree in ChinaIn 1897sent seeds of Dove TreeFrom China to FranceIn 1899E H WilsonHomework1.Finish off the exercises in the workbook.2.Learn the text by heart.
