1、-unDeveloping ideasUnit 5 Reveling nature Pre-reading:Have you watched the sci-fi Avatar?What impressed you most?Pre-reading:Can plants communicate with each other?How?While-reading:Scan and divide.Divide the passage into three parts,and find the main idea of each part.Para 12Lead-inWhile-reading:Re
2、ad and answer.I.Which sentence presents the main idea of part 1?While-reading:Scan and divide.Divide the passage into three parts,and find the main idea of each part.Para 12Lead-inPara 35Main bodyPlants can communicate.While-reading:II.What does the second part mainly talk about?While-reading:Scan a
3、nd divide.Divide the passage into three parts,and find the main idea of each part.Para 12Lead-inPara 35Main bodyPara 6Conclusion Plants can communicate.Scientists are learning more about the language of plants.Plants have various ways to communicate.While-reading:Read and municate with each other.Wh
4、ile-reading:Read and fill.Using chemicalslThis plant releases chemicals 2 _that are being eaten.lWhen another plant detects the chemicals,it starts to3_.from the leaves release its own,different chemicalsI.What figure of speech is being used when the plants are described as calling for help?What is
5、its function?Personification.II.How do chemicals released by neighboring plants work?By driving insects away or attracting insectswasps.More vivid.While-reading:Read and fill.Using soundlSome plants make noises4 _.lA chilli plant can5 _ _.l Some trees make6 _.with their rootstell if a neighbouring p
6、lant is helpful,or unfriendlyIII.What figure of speech is involved in paragraph 4?Personification.clicking noises when there is not enough water,indicating drought is arriving While-reading:Read and fill.Using the“wood wide web”lThis fungal network links7 _.l Plants can 8 _ _.l Plants can 9 _ to att
7、ack other plants.the roots of different plants toeach other share information and even foodIV.Can you use your own words to introduce wood wide web?steal food from each other,or spread poisonsV.What figure of speech is involved in“wood wide web?Metaphor and alliteration.Definition and functions.Whil
8、e-reading:Discuss and share.What does the word language in the title refer to?communicationWhile-reading:Discuss and share.How do animals communicate with each other?Post-reading:Discuss and share.What would you want to talk to plants or animals if technology made it accessible for human to communicate with them?T h a n k s!
