Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Unit 14
zoologyWarming-up & Reading
To teach a fish how to swim.
( 班门弄斧 )
Love me, love my dog.
( 爱屋及乌 )
Interesting Proverbs
The sparrow （麻雀） near a school sings the ABC.
( 潜移默化 )
Dog doesn’t eat dog.
( 虎毒不食子 )
Go home and kick the dog.
( 回家生闷气 )
When the cat is away,the mice will play.
( 山中无老虎 , 猴子称大王 )
( 江山易改，本性难移 )
Have a bee in one’s head.
( 胡思乱想 )
You can’t make a crab( 蟹） walk straight.
worker
queen
beekeeper
beehive honey
as busy as a bee
honeycomb
flower
sting
insect
pollen
hum/ buzz
What other words come to your mind when you see “bee” this word?
The Language of Honey-bees
Reading
Para. 1
Para. 2
Para. 3
Para. 4
Para. 5
Para. 6
Para. 7
Para. 8
1. The circle dance
2. A brief introduction of the bee
3. Whether bees could tell each other the exact position.
4. The wagging dance.
5. Pro. Karl von Frisch built special hives to study bees.
6. The number of wagging dances indicates the exact distance to the feeding place.
7. “Bee-line” and “ to make a beeline for ”
8. Something about the professor
Match the general idea of each paragraph.
Careful Reading
Para.1 a brief introduction of the bee
Q: Why is it the honey-bee that has interested scientists most?
Because of the language they use to communicate with each other.
Para.2 Pro. Karl von Frisch built special hives to study bees.
What 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.
the circle dancethe circle dance( Food is near. )
Para.3-4 the circle dance and the wagging dance
the wagging dance
( Food is far away. )
Para.5The number of wagging
dances indicates the exact distance to the feeding place.
1. What did the scientists discover?
2. What a maximum distance do the bees fly?
They discovered that the farther away the feeding station was, the slower the dance was.
Bees fly a maximum distance of 3.2 kilometres between their hive and a feeding place.
A circle dance
A wagging dance
A faster wagging dance
A slower wagging dance
Food is near.
Food is far away.
Food is closer.
Food is farther away.
Note making
What was the remaining question for Professor von Frisch and his partners?
Para.6
The remaining question was to find out whether bees could tell each other the exact position of a feeding place.
To make a beeline for someone or something means:
Para.7.
To go quickly along a straight course for somebody or something.
Information about the scientist
Name: _______________
Nationality: ____________
What’s he? ________________
Research work: _________________
How to find it out: _________________
His discovery: ______________________
Prize:_____________________________
Karl von Frisch
Austrian
zoologist
the language of honey-bees
by doing experiments
circle dance & wagging dance
Won a Nobel Prize in 1973
Do you know… Do you know…
Do you know how other animals
communicate with each other?
Do you think that human beings and animals can communicate with each other? How ?
