1. Unit 14
zoology

9. What other words come to your mind when you
as busy as a bee
What other words come to your mind when you
see “bee” this word?
worker 工蜂
queen 蜂王
drone 雄蜂
insect 昆虫
pollen 花粉
sting 毒刺
flower
nectar 花蜜
beeswax 蜂腊
hum/ buzz 蜂音
honey 蜂蜜
beekeeper
养蜂人
beehive 蜂箱
royal jelly
蜂王浆
bee house
养蜂场
honeycomb 蜂窝

10. The language of honey-bees

11. Skimming
The scientist can study the language of honey bees only after the development of ____.
the modern beehive
experiments
dishes of honey
researches of the language

12. 2. After the marked bee danced, the other bees ____.
danced together
B. became very excited
C. Seemed not to notice it
D. both A and B

13. 3. Different dances indicate（表明） different _____.
food B. feeding places
C. steps D. semicircles

14. Match the general idea of each paragraph.
The circle dance
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.
“Bee-line” and “ to make a beeline for ”
8. Something about the professor
Para. 1
Para. 2
Para. 3
Para. 4
Para. 5
Para. 6
Para. 7
Para. 8

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. Para.3-4 the circle dance and the wagging dance
Can you describe how the circle dance performed? And how the wagging dance performed?

18. the circle dance
First it made a circle to the right, then to the left. It repeated these circles over and over again. Then the surrounding bees trooped behind the first dancer, copying its movements.

19. the wagging dance
The dancer ran in a straight line, wagging from side to side. Then it turned in a semicircle, ran straight again, and turned in another semicircle to the opposite side. It kept the “steps” over and over.

20. The number of wagging dances indicates the exact distance to the feeding place.
Para.5
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.

21. Para.6
What was the remaining question for Professor von Frisch and his partners?
The remaining question was to find out whether bees could tell each other the exact position of a feeding place.

22. Para.7. To make a beeline for someone or something means:
To go quickly along a straight course for somebody or something.

23. Karl von Frisch Para.8 Karl von Frisch
Austrian zoologist
Karl von Frisch
won the 1973 Nobel Prize in physiology(生理学) or medicine. He discovered a number of pioneering breakthroughs in animal behavior.

24. Read the text, then fill the form blow:
Problems
Experiments
Results
Conclusion
How did one bee commu-nicate the news of food to others ?
The marked bee performed a circle dance, and the surrounding bees copied it and left for the feeding place together.
Professor von Frisch marked some bees with little dots of colour.
The circle dance communi-cated the news of food.

25. Problems
Experiments
Results
Conclusion
Did the dance convey more informa-tion?
Professor von Frisch set up two feeding places, one close to the hive, the other much farther away, and marked the bees with two colors.
Bees from nearby feeding place did circling dance, while bees from the distant one did a wagging dance.
The two dances told the bees about the location of the feeding place.

26. Problems
Experiments
Results
Conclusion
How did bees tell the exact distance of the feeding place?
Zoologists moved the feeding place slowly farther, and use a stop-watch to count how many times the bees repeated the dance per minute.
The farther away the feeding station was, the slower the dance was.
The number of wagging dances per minute told the exact distance of the feeding place.

27. Problems
Experiments
Results
Conclusion
Could bees tell each other the exact position of a feeding place?
The zoologists clarified the procedure by which bees communicate information that use to find and fetch food.
Scientists obtained more data and did more experiments.

28. Note making 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.

29. 根据课文内容填空:
There are many _________ of bee. Among the different types of bee, it is the honey-bee that has most interested scientists because of the “language” they use to _______________ with each other. The scientists Von Frisch built special hives to find out how one bee communicate the news of food to the other bees in the hive.
varieties
communicate

30. To his _____________, the bee who found the feeding place began to _________ a dance on the ________ of the honeycomb. The dance seemed to _______ the surrounding bees. They _________ behind the first dancer, _________ its movements. Then the bees left the hive and went to the _______ place. He found that the bees did the circling dance when the food is near, and that the bees did the ___________ dance when the food was far away.
surprise
perform
surface
trooped
excite
copying
feeding
wagging

31. He also found that the number of wagging dances per _________ told how far away the food was.
minute

32. The twins are so much alike that we can hardly tell them apart.
Some language points:
1. In order to tell the bees apart, he painted some bees with little dots of color.(para2)
tell apart: 识别,辨别
The twins are so much alike that we can hardly tell them apart.

33. come to light: 被人知道(发现)
2. So another astonishing fact came to light.(para5)
come to light: 被人知道(发现)
New facts about ancient Egypt have recently come to light.

34. As he spoke, he made a beeline for the door.（径直走向门口）
3. make a beeline for :走近路,走直路
As he spoke, he made a beeline for the door.（径直走向门口）
If you want to catch up with the team, you’d better make a beeline for them.（抄近路）

35. Homework
1. Retell the text.
2. Read exercise 3 of post reading to find out more information about the language of bees

36. Thank you very much!