Teaching procedures:I. Lead in: (1 min) free talk/describe pictures/watch videos/quiz/newsNow class begins. Good morning, boys and girls. Today, we are going to learn a new unit together.Have a free talk with students.设计几个问题，要求贴近学生的生活，容易回答。

III. Pre-reading: (2mins) brainstorm/predict1)BrainstormGive me one minute to brainstorm with your partners in small groups. Tell me what plants can be used for.2)PredictWith the help of the title, could you please tell me what will be talked about in the passage? Let’ answer this question group by group.In your opinion, what may this article talk about?Can you guess what we are going to learn today through the title?Well, you are pretty good at predicting. Here are some good predictions. Why not read the passage by yourself to check whether this information is talked about or not? You only have 2 mins. Remember when you read the passage, you are sure to meet some new words. Don’t be eager to look them up. Try to guess their meanings according to the context or you can refer to the word bank on page 85. Understand me? Here we go!IV. While-reading:(4 min)1)Skimming (1 min): main idea/workout the correct order of the textAsk students to skim the text and try to find the main idea of the passage as soon as they can. How is the passage organized? The passage is organized in the order of (time, places, events, importance)After your reading, I will ask you some questions to check your understanding.You will have about one min to go through the passage and find the main idea. And think about this question: how did you find that? Now, let’s read it.When you finish, you can discuss with your neighbor: how did you find the main idea?Is there any volunteer who can tell me the main idea of this article?Good idea. Do you agree with him? Any disagreement? Any different opinion?How did you find it?You find it by reading the first sentence and the last sentence of all the paragraphs. Good answer! What do we usually call these sentences? Do you know? Yeah, topic sentences. Usually we can find the main idea by reading the topic sentences. Good job!What do we need if we want to be excellent basketball players or to be successful in our life? Please think it over. Perhaps you don't know the answer to the question. Don't worry. I'm sure you will get it after reading the passage. Please take out your paper at page one, we know the test is made up of two parts. You will be divided to two groups. Got it? Let's begin.Read the whole text quickly and silently. You don’t have to read it word by word at this stage. When you read, try to notice what the text is about.I will divide you into several groups. There will be six students in one group. Now let me introduce the task for you. First, I will give every one a piece of paper. There will be part of the text on this piece of paper. So what you need to do is that first read the text on the paper to your group members. When everyone finishes reading, all the group members should work together to find out the right sequence of the whole text. Now, I will give you the paper. Ok, time is up. Go back to your seat. Most of have finished this task, right? Now I will choose one group to share your answer with us. Ok, Group one. Please read thr whole text in the right sequence. Actually, this is the text of Unit 4.2)Scanning (2 min): 老师提问/让学生互提问题Ask students to read the passage again and ask them some questions.Now let’s go back to the article and find out what ways have been mentioned. You can tell me any way you have found out.Now let’s read for more details. Let’s go through the whole passage and try to fin d the answers to the following three questions.Time is up. Have you finished? Let’s check answers together.5W+H: What; Who; When; Where; Why; How或者判断对错Next, you are expected to read the whole passage carefully again and then3)Intensive reading( 1 min): 如果是几段的文字，分析段落大意；提一个深层次的问题pairwork/group discussionRead the passage carefully and try to understand the whole passage. Then discuss some questions in groups.Let students discuss the following questions in pairs.e.g. What qualities do you think a scientist should have?Now work in groups and I’ll give you several mins to discuss about it. Ok, go.I would like you to join the groups and discuss….. Now, just go ahead.Please discuss natural wonders in groups and your discussion should be based on the two questions. This time, the group leader should take down your group members’ ideas and sum them up in your own words. Later, we will share your ideas with all of us here. Understand me?Time is up. Any group would like to share your idea with us?V. Post-reading (1 min) role-play/interview/retell/application/续写This passage is a very good example for us to follow if we are supposed to write a similar passage like this. Please go through the passage quickly again to pick put the words, expressions or sentence patterns that are useful in your writing.Any group wants to have a try?Let students make a dialogue based on the passage.Now it’s your show time. Suppose…..Who would like to act your dialogue out? The first grou p. Let’s welcome XXXX. Next group, please?So much for this activity. Next, let’s come to activity XXX on page 20.VI. Summary & Home work (1 min)Recommend some useful websites.Summarize what we have learnt today and assignment homework.We have done a lot of things today. Firstly, we have talked about…. Then, we discussed. Next, we learned some useful words and expressions.Since time is limited, I cannot hear more creative ideas from you.Homework:1)Write an email to your friend.2)Write a short passage and use the new words and expressions as many as possible.3)Read the passage again and try to retell the passage.4)Search the Internet and find more information about…SpeakingDiscussionRole-play: Make up a dialogue; InterviewDebateListening听前说，听后演Pre-listening:1)Have a free talk with students2)Learn new words and expressions3)Predict the listening material4)Listen5)Answer some questions6)Role-play; Discussion.Writing:Pre-writing:1)Brainstorm and speaking2)Listening3)Sample readingWhile-writing:Post-writing:Peer evaluation and polish我说的now i will show u a recording pls listen to ..... and think about if u were the writer,which one would u support?Vocabulary:1)Let’s deal with some new words first. The first one I will introduce to you is…. Follow me,please.读一遍2) Can you guess the meaning of this word? 造个句子请同学猜意思3)解释这个单词的意思4)Can you make a sentence with this word? 请同学造句。