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课件网) Unit 5 Revealing nature Developing ideas — Reading 目录 contents Pre-reading I Post-reading IV Fast reading II Language points Ⅴ While-reading III VI Homework I Pre-reading Pre-reading: Lead-in Look at the pictures and tick what plants can do. attack breathe eat sleep move speak steal think Pre-reading: Lead-in Now talk about what else you think plants can do and give examples. In Avatar, trees can communicate with animals and people. II Fast reading Fast reading: Skimming Read the passage and find out the ways in which plants communicate. They can communicate with each other by using chemicals, sound and “wood wide web”. Fast reading: Skimming Read for the main idea of each paragraph. Para 1 Para 2 Para 3 Many cultures have stories of talking trees. New research has revealed something amazing: it appears that plants can communicate. Plants use chemicals to communicate with each other. Fast reading: Skimming Read for the main idea of each paragraph. Para 4 Para 5 Para 6 Plants also use sound to communicate. Plants have an amazing system of communication called “wood wide web”. Scientists are learning more about the secret ways in which plants talk to each other. Fast reading: Scanning Organise information from the passage and complete the diagram. Modern research is showing that plants can 1 _____ _____. Using chemicals The plant releases chemicals 2 _____ that are being eaten. When another plant detects the chemicals, it starts to 3 _____. communicate with each other from the leaves release its own, different chemicals Fast reading: Scanning Using sound Some plants make noises 4 _____. A chilli plant can 5 _____ _____. Some trees make 6 _____ _____. with their roots tell if a neighbouring plant is helpful, or unfriendly clicking noises when there is not enough water, indicating drought is arriving Organise information from the passage and complete the diagram. Fast reading: Scanning Using the “wood wide web” This fungal network links 7 _____ _____. Plants can 8 _____ with each other. Plants can 9 _____ _____ to attack other plants. the roots of different plants to each other share information and even food steal food from each other, or spread poisons Maybe one day we will be able to “talk” with plants. Organise information from the passage and complete the diagram. III While-reading While-reading: Learning to learn Personification means giving human characteristics to something that is not human. By using human characteristics to describe an object, animal or even a place, personification can make descriptions more vivid. Language points V 1. communicate vt & vi 传达，表达 communicate … to 传送给…… communicate with 与……联系，与……相通 Language points: Important words 1) 小组成员必须通过角色扮演互相交流。 2) 他们成功地把知识传授给他人。 Group members have to communicate with each other through role-play. They successfully communicate their knowledge to others. 2. de ... ...
