1. Pre-reading
    Do animals have their languages?
Yes.

2. The Language of Honey Bees
Unit 22
Lesson 85
The Language of Honey Bees

3. honeycomb
nest of bees
beehive

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

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

6. a b c d
( Food is far away. )
( Food is near. )

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

8. answer the comprehension questions
Listen to the tape
and
answer the comprehension questions

9. 1 5分
2 5分
3 10分
4 10分
5 10分
6 15分
9 25分
7 20分
8 20分

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 4. How did the marked bee tell the message of food to the other bees
4. How did the marked bee tell the message of food to the other bees? Give the follows in right order.
The marked bee returned to the hive from the feeding table.
It repeated these circles over and over again.
The marked bee made a circle to the left.
The marked bee made a circle to the right.
The other excited bees dance together.
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

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

15. 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

16. 7. Which of the following statements is right?
Animals do have a language like that of human beings.
When Professor Karl von Frisch placed little dishes of milk on the table, bees soon came.
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.
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

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

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

19. 难句分析 1. The development of the modern beehive in 1851
made it possible to design experiments to research
the language of honey bees.
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。

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

21. 难句分析 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”。

22. 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.
amazing adj. 令人惊异的
amaze vt. 使……惊异
amazement n.
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.

23. 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.

24. ( blue card with syrup blue card red card
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

25. 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?

26. new words

28. Bye!

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

31. Revision apple-green good-looking hard-working kind-hearted well-known
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
hard-working
kind-hearted
well-known
absent-minded
open-minded
low-lying
nationwide
easy-going
widespread
new-fallen snow
snow-white
ice-cold
a newborn baby

32. ? 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?