Unit 14 zoology Warming-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.general idea

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 dance ( Food is near. ) Para.3-4 the circle dance and the wagging dance

( Food is far away. )

Para.5 The 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 how other animals communicate with each other?

Do you think that human beings and animals can communicate with each other? How ?