高三英语教案 Unit 14 Zoology [学案]
第一部分课文理解
Warming up
Read the following proverbs and then match the Chinese meaning of each proverb.
一贫如洗 回家生闷气 饥肠辘辘 勿惹事生非 不要过早打如意算盘
披着羊皮的狼 一燕不成夏 拦路虎 把好人与坏人分开 亡羊补牢
班门弄斧 倾盆大雨 蠢得像头猪 江山易改,本性难移
人靠衣装,佛靠金装 小时偷针,大时偷金 潜移默化 爱屋及乌
1.To teach a fish how to swim.
2.The sparrow near a school sings the primer.
3.Love me, love my dog
4.Look the barn door after the horse is stolen.
5.He that will steal a pin will steal an ox.
6.Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.
7.as poor as a church mouse
8. Let sleeping dogs lie.
9.I'm SO hungry that I could eat a horse.
10.Go home and kick the dog.
11.Separate the sheep from the goats.
12.A lion in the way.
13.One swallow doesn’t make a summer
14.A wolf in sheep’s clothing.
15.Fine feathers make fine birds.
16.You can’t make a crab walk straight.
17.It rains cats and dogs.
18.as stupid as a goose.
Read the text and then match the general idea of each paragraph.
Para 1 1.The circle dance
Para 2 2.A brief introduction of the bee
Para 3 3. Whether bees could tell each other the exact position.
Para 4 4. The wagging dance.
Para 5 5. Pro. Karl von Frisch built special hives to study bees.
Para 6 6. The number of wagging dances indicates the exact distance to the feeding place.
Para 7 7. Something about the professor
Para 8 8. “Bee-line” and “ to make a beeline for ”
Read the passage carefully and then do the following exercises
Para.1
①Q: Why is it the honey-bee that has interested scientists most?
Because of the language they use to communicate with each other.
②You can find out the topic sentence of the text simply in para.1 from ____.
A.the first sentence B. the second sentence C.The fifth sentence D. the last sentence
③The scientists can study the language of honey bees only after the development of ____.
A.the modern beehive B.experiments C.dishes of honey D.both A and B
Para.2
①Karl von Frisch made an experiment to research ____.
A.the food of honey bees B.the dance of honey bees
C.the ways honey bees communicate D. The hive of honey bees
②The phrase “tell the bees apart” in para.2 means____.
A.let the bees live separately B.tell one bee from the other
C.drive the bees away D.tear the bees into pieces
③Which of the following statements is right?
A.Animals do have a language like that of human beings.
B.When Professor Karl von Frisch placed little dishes of milk on the table, bees soon came.
C.In order to be able to watch the bees scientifically, he built some special hive, a glass wall and marked the bees with little spots of colour.
D.When a marked bee returned to the hive from the feeding table, it began to perform a dance on the surface of the ground.
④What was Professor von Frisch puzzled by?
When he placed little dishes of honey on a table, bees soon came. As soon as one bee discovered the honey, many more came to it one after another in a short time.
Para.3-4
① The Language of Honey Bees
②How did the marked bee tell the message of food to the other bees? Give the follows in right order.
a.The marked bee returned to the hive from the feeding table.
b.It repeated these circles over and over again. c.The marked bee made a circle to the left.
d The marked bee made a circle to the right. e.The other excited bees dance together.
f.The bees left the hive and went to the feeding place.
A.abcefd B.cadefb C.adcbef D. dacebf
③Different dance indicate different ____.
A.food B.feeding places C.steps D.semicircles
④The circle dance communicates ____.
a.the distance of food b.the information of food
c.the amount of food d.the kind of food
A.abc B. abd C.ab D.bc
⑤Can you describe how the circle dance performed? And how the wagging dance performed?
Para 5
①What did the scientists discover?
They discovered that the feeding station was, the dance was.
②What a maximum distance do the bees fly?
Bees between their hive and a feeding place.
③The phrase“come to light”in Paragraph 5 means______.
A.become known B.come to a bright place C.turn bright D.both A and B
④The number of the wagging dances per minute told______.
A.the position of the feeding place B.the amount of the food
C.the distance of the feeding place D.all the information about food
Para 7
What does "bee-line" mean ?
Para.8
①According to the this passage please give the information about Karl von Frisch
Nationality: ___________ _
What’s he? ________________
Research work: _________________
How to find it out: _________________
His discovery: ______________________
Prize:_____________________________
②.After reading the text, you can infer the writer is likely to write about ____ in the next para.
A.Whether the circle dance told them what food was in feeding place
B.Whether the bees can tell one colour from the other
C.Whether the wagging dance tell the bees the distance and the direction of the food
D.Whether the language of honey bees is the most useful language of all animals