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111Unit 1 Great ScientistsThe 6th PeriodTeaching Aims: 1. Improve the students listening skills.2. Improve the students speaking skills.Difficult and Important Points:1)Listening 2)Help Ss overcome the difficulties in listening material.Teaching Methods:Class activities to help motivate the Ss interest of learning English.Teaching Procedures:Step I Warming up1.Which plant and animal do you like best? Can you classify them into a system ?2.Background: Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) SwedishCarl Linnaeus is often called the Father of Taxonomy(分类学).He succeeded in classifying the plants and animals into a system that worked. His method was called “the sexual method” of classifying plants and animals.His system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms is still in wide use today (with many changes). His ideas on classification have influenced generations of biologists during and after his own lifetime.Step II. Listening P411.Choose which of the following statements most closely describes what this listening passage is about . Explain why the others are wrong.A. This is about a man who wants to name a flower.B. This is about a man who finds a flower and wants to own it.C. This is about a man who finds a flower and wants to know if it is a new species of flower.2. Listen to the tape again and try to complete the following passage. To find the name of the unknown flower, first you have to go to see a flower _. He /She will look in a special _ written by Carl Linnaeus. He lived in _ from _to _. He was very important because he solved a serious problem for _ . He saw all plants and animals produce _. Some animals produce _ but others lay _ while plants _. He used these different ways of producing young to put plants and animals into _. For example, the group called birds lay _ to produce young and they all have _. Linnaeus put the plants and animals into smaller groups or species. He gave each one two names. One is for the large group, for example _ and one is for the species, for example _. So a parrot would be _. He was the first person to successfully classify(分类)all plants and animals.Step III. Talking P41 Imagine you are going to meet a specialist about a newly-found flower. Your partner will be the assistant for the flower specialist. You both need a description of the other so you can recognize each other when you meet. Now ring the assistant to sort out the necessary information. Pair work (Making a telephone call)How will I recognize you? What special features do you have?What will you wear?How will I know you?What do you look like?You can recognize me becauseIm tall/short, fat/thin, young/old withMylooks a bit likeI have large /small ,brown/green eyes withStep IV. Play a game: Can you guess who he/she is?One acts as an assistant, the other acts as the third person who wants to introduce a visitor (in the class) to the assistant. The whole class guess who the visitor is.Step V. SummaryStep VI. Homework assignment111
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