Do animals have their languages? Yes. Pre-reading

Unit 22 Lesson 85 The Language of Honey Bees

honeycomb nest of bees beehive

Q1. Is there only one type of bee or are there many types? Q2. Which kind of bee interests the scientists most? Honey bee. Quick-reading

Read the text again and make notes: Information For Bees: Kinds _______________ ________________ Bees ________________ ________________ Living places _________________ _________________ How do honey bees communicate with each other? Life style various live in large groups do not live in groups in trees in holes in the rocks in holes in the ground circle dance & wagging dance

( Food is far away. ) ab cd ( Food is near. )

Information about the scientist Name: _______________ Nationality: ____________ What’s he? ________________ Research work: _________________ How to find it out: _________________ His discovery: ______________________ ? Is it easy for the scientist to find out the way? What do you think of the scientist? Karl von Frisch Austrian zoologist/scientist the amazing way … by doing experiments circle dance & wagging dance

Listen to the tape and answer the comprehension questions

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1.The scientists can study the language of honey bees only after the development of ____. A.the modern beehive B.experiments C.dishes of honey D.both A and B D

2. Karl von Frisch made an experiment to research ____. A.the food of honey bees B.the dance of honey bees C.the ways honey bees communicate D. The hive of honey bees C

3. The phrase “tell the bees apart” in para.2 means____. A.let the bees live separately B.tell one bee from the other C.drive the bees away D.tear the bees into pieces B

4. How did the marked bee tell the message of food to the other bees? Give the follows in right order. (1)The marked bee returned to the hive from the feeding table. (2) It repeated these circles over and over again. (3) The marked bee made a circle to the left. (4) The marked bee made a circle to the right. (5) The other excited bees dance together. (6) The bees left the hive and went to the feeding place. A.(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6) B.(1)(3)(4)(5)(2)(6) C.(1)(4)(3)(2)(5)(6) D.(1)(4)(3)(5)(2)(6) C

5. Different dance indicate different ____. A.food B.feeding places C.steps D.semicircles B

6. The circle dance communicates ____. (1) the distance of food (2) the information of food (3) the amount of food (4) the kind of food A. (1)(2)(3) B. (1)(2)(4) C.(1)(2) D.(2)(3) C

7. Which of the following statements is right? A.Animals do have a language like that of human beings. B.When Professor Karl von Frisch placed little dishes of milk on the table, bees soon came. C.In order to be able to watch the bees scientifically, he built some special hive, a glass wall and marked the bees with little spots of colour. D.When a marked bee returned to the hive from the feeding table, it began to perform a dance on the surface of the ground. C

8. You can find out the topic sentence of the text simply in para.1 from ____. A.the first sentence B. the second sentence C. The fifth sentence D. the last sentence C

9. After reading the text, you can infer the writer is likely to write about ____ in the next para. A.Whether the circle dance told them what food was in feeding place B.Whether the bees can tell one colour from the other C.Whether the wagging dance tell the bees the distance and the direction of the food D.Whether the language of honey bees is the most useful language of all animals C

1. The development of the modern beehive in 1851 made it possible to design experiments to research the language of honey bees. 难句分析 1851 年新式蜂箱的研制使设计实验研究蜜蜂的语言成为可能。

2. In order to tell the bees apart, he painted some bees with little spots of color. 难句分析 tell…apart = tell the difference between things/people eg. The twins are so much alike that their own mother can hardly tell them apart.

3. Among the different types of bee, it is the honey bee that has most interested scientists because of the “language” they use to communicate with each other. 在不同类的蜂中，最使科学家感兴趣的是蜜蜂，因为蜜蜂 能用语言 “ 相互交际 ” 。 难句分析

4. Professor Karl von Frisch, an Austrian scientist, spent many years of his life researching the amazing ways honey bees communicate in their dark hives. 难句分析 Professor Karl von Frisch, an Austrian scientist, spent many years of his life researching the amazing ways ( in which /that ) honey bees communicate in their dark hives. amazing adj. 令人惊异的 amaze vt. 使 …… 惊异 amazement n.

1.To do the experiment, altogether how many cards do you need to prepare? A. Two, one blue and one red. B. Three, two blue and one red. C. three, one blue and two red. D. Four, two blue and two red.

2. If figure 1( 图 1) below shows the table top during step 1 of the experiment, which picture in figure 2 represents( 代表 ) step 2? ( blue card with syrup blue card red card Figure 1: Figure 2: A B C D

3. During step 2 of the experiment, the bees come to______. A. the original( 原来的 ) blue card with syrup on it B. the new blue card with no syrup on it C. the empty space where the original blue card was D. the new blue card with syrup on it 4. The experiment has proved that bees __________. A. cannot see colors B. can see colors C. cannot see blue D. cannot see red 5. Which title best gives the idea of the passage? A. Bees love blue. B. Bees love syrup. C. Bees, color and syrup. D. Can bees see color?

new words

Compound adj. ( 合成形容词 ): faraway nearby worldwide new-laid (eggs) new-built leftover radioactive noble-minded narrow-minded Revision

好看的 勤劳的 闻名的 地势低的 全国性的 广泛流传的 雪白的 冰冷的 苹果绿的 心地善良的 心不在焉的 心胸开阔的 随和的 新下的雪 一个刚出生的婴儿 good-looking apple-green hard-working well-known low-lying nationwide widespread snow-white ice-cold kind-hearted absent-minded open-minded easy-going new-fallen snow a newborn baby Revision

? 1. According to the text, did the marked bee find the food place individually( 各别的 )? 2. Did the bee eat the food himself and keep it a secret to his friends? 3. What can we learn from the bee?