人教版高中英语选修9课件 Unit 4 Reading 课件

Structure:
Part I: Para1-2 the beginning of plant collecting Part II: Para3-4 the exploration of plants in the 18th century Part III: Para 5-7 the invention and use of Wardian case Part IV: Para 8-9 the exploration of plants in the 19th centry
Comprehending
Time People/plants Historic Events
In 1500 B.C
sent ships to gather the Queen plants, animals and of Egypt other goods
in the 1740s Father d’Incarville
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: describes an experiment carried out by Dr Nathaniel Ward who invented a glass case in which to transport plants on long journeys.
Detailed 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 scale by Europeans. Para 3: talks about French Catholic missionaries who collected plants in China in the 18th century.
Unit 4 Reading 课件
Warming up
How much do you know about plants?
DISCUSSION:
Did you know that:
1. some plants do not have flowers? 2. some plants have roots that live in the air? 3. some plants eat meat? 4. some plants need animals to pollinate them?
7. Robert Fortune introduced over 120 species of plants to Western Gardens, because he could easily travel everywhere in China. F 8. During the second half of the 19th century, many Catholic missionaries were sent to China, and they collected many seeds of plants, which were sent back to France.
5. some plants grow on other plants? 6. plants are adapted to live in specific environments? 7. people buy plants that come from other countries for their gardens? 8. a new plant does not always grow from a seed?
Para 7: is about Robert Fortune, a British plant collector who made several trips to China in the 19th century. Para 8: is about Father Farges, a French Catholic missionary who collected plants in China in the 19th century.
In 1833
Nathaniel Ward
shipped two cases of British Plants to Sydney
made several trips to China
1843-1859 During the second half of the 19th century
Robert Fortune
When you last visited a public garden, did you look at the individual plants there? Were there any plants from other countries?
How do you think plants have traveled from one country to another? Joseph Banks
many were sent to China Catholic from France missionaries
sent seeds of Dove Tree In 1897 Father Farges From China to France
In 1899 E H Wilson collected a large quantity of the seeds of the Dove Tree in China
5. Banks, together with James Cook, collected many examples of plants in Australia. 6. Keeping plants alive during long land or sea voyage was very difficult, which caused the Wardian Case to be invented.
Reading
Skimming Read the passage quickly and try to get the main idea of this passage?
Scanning
T or F Questions:
1. The plants in our garden grew in China originally. 2. The American Middle Classes took great interest in collecting new plants during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Dr Nathaniel Ward
The Wardian case
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Robert Fortune (1812-1880) represented the Horticultural Society of London (now the Royal Horticultural Society) as a collector in China shortly after the Treaty of Nanjing had brought the Opium War to a close. Through his use of the Wardian case, Fortune was able to introduce many of the best-known Chinese garden plants into cultivation in Europe and North America.
French missionary and naturalist. Born at Monclar-de-Quercy, Tarn-et-Garonne. He was sent to China in 1867 and remained stationed in north-east Sichuan until 1903. Although he had always nurtured an interest in the local flora and fauna, it was not until 1892 that he started to collect herbarium specimens in earnest. During the eleven years before he moved south to Chongqing, he collected and preserved over Pè re Paul Guillaume Farges (1844 1912) 4,000 specimens.
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.
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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 F England.
Pre-reading
Do you have a courtyard or some pot plants on your balcony? Do you know where these plants come from? Are they Chinese plants or do they come from another country?
Dove Tree
Ernest Henry Wilson (1876 - 1930)
Scan the title of the reading passage and the pictures and predict what it is about?
Plant Exploration in the 18th And 19th centuries
was sent to Beijing
tree of In 1751 arrived in England Heaven seeds In 1769 Sir Joseph Banks collected plants in Australia
In 1784 the Tree of Heaven tree was introduced into North America
Imagine:
Suppose three of you are botanists (植物学家), and one is a captain. Now each botanist wants the captain to bring his plant home. But the captain can take only one plant, so each must try his best to explain his reason to persuade the captain into taking his own plant.