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2.　　　 Check the homework.

Review the Model Verbs

Step 2. Scan the passage and complete the chart below:

Types	Characteristics and examples
Primate	1.　　　 hands and feet can grasp and often have opposable thumbs and toes; 2.　　　 have a better sense of touch and the primate brain is larger.
Other animals	1.　　　 not good at holding, moving, and using objects; 2.　　　 have a weak sense of touch and small brain.
Higher primates	Large size of brain, such as human beings and apes.
Lower primates	Small size of brain.
Monkeys	Have tails, small and walk less upright.
Apes	not tail, larger and walk more upright, use sight more than smell, developed brain.
Now world primates	Bigger and spend more time on the ground, such as monkeys, apes and humans

Step 3. Careful reading:

　Ask the students to read the passage carefully and answer questions 2 on Page 126.

Period 3.　 Integrating Reading and Writing Skills

　　　　　　　　 2 Passages on p 252-254

Step 1. Warmming-up

u　　　　Do the oral pratice on p119-120, and enable the students to practise debating.

Step 2. Reading

　 Task 1: Read the 2 passages and finish the exercises. If possible, guide the students to analyze some long and complex sentences.

Step 3. Guided Writing

Give Ss 20 minutes to finish the writing assignment on p117,

Then ask Ss to score their work according to the following chart.

　 3 pluses & 1 wish

Name _______　 Title _____________________　 Date _______________
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Note: How to use this chart effectively?

Ask the student to read his/her deskmate’s writing carefully, and then find 3 valuable things (structure, passage arrangement, sentence, diction, etc) and give 1 suggestion. And then feed the message back. Next, ask the Ss to correct their work according to the chart.

Period 4:

Step 1. Analyze some long sentences:

Deal with some language points and difficult points if necessary. If possible, guide the students to analyze some long and complex sentences. The following sentences in this unit are very important:

　　　　 Among the different kinds of bees, it is the honey-bee that has interested scientists most because of the “language” they use to communicate with each other.

　　　　 In order to tell the bees apart, he painted some bees with little dots of colour.

　　　　 For his lifetime’s work in studying the communication of animals, including honey-bees, Professor Karl von Frisch was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1973, which he shared with two other scientists.

　　　　 They trooped behind the first dancer, copying its movement.

　　　　 After designing more experiments, they were able to clarify the procedure by which bees communicate information that they use to find and fetch food.

　　　　 Like all other living creatures, human beings belong to a group of other animals that share certain characteristics.

Step 2: Testing your skills on P250-251

Step 3: Cloze Test on p255-256

Step 4: Translating on P 256

1.　　　 Check the Ss how further they understand the text. 　

7. The experiment of Professor Karl Von Frisch tells us that bees can and do communicate with each other by their dances, which may be called a kind of “language”.

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