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Unit 4 Green World The First Period Warming up and Speaking Teaching goals: 1. Target language: a. Important words: tulip, rose, peony, strawberry, bunch, b. Important sentences: Can you tell something about each flower? Where does it come from? What is it used for? Which flower is your favorite? Explain how to grow and take care of the soybean plant. Describe what to do and how to take care of the flowers you have been given. 2. Ability goals: Enable students to talk about “botany” (including the names, the properties, the usage of certain plants, how to grow and take care of them, etc) and to say something about it. 3. Learning ability goals: Learn how to describe plants (properties; places of birth; what they are used for; how to grow and take care of them, etc). Teaching important points: Help students learn to describe plants and how to grow and take care of them. Teaching difficult points: How to help students learn more about “botany”, and then give descriptions. Teaching methods: Discussion; Pair work; Group work Teaching aids: Pictures, slides, a PC and a projector. Teaching procedures ways: Step 1 Revision T: In the last unit, we’ve learned a lot about Australia. Now who’d like to make a general speech on the country? S: Let me try. Australia is the only country in the world which covers an entire continent. It is a wealthy country, which produces metals, precious stones, coal, grain, meat and wines, and has the biggest iron mines in the world. Australia has about one-sixth of the world’s sheep and produces almost one-third of its wool. The climate in Australia varies from north to south. T: Anything else? S: Modern Australia is made up of six states and two territories. The first Australians were the aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. The two world wars had a strong influence on Australia. The official language is English, which are quite different from British and American English. Step 2 Warming Up T: Good. You really did a great