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. )

a b

c d

( Food is near. )

Flash 播放影片

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

3 10分

4 10分 5 10分 6 15分

1 5分 2 5分

7 20分 8 20分 9 25分

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 BD

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 itC. the empty space where the original blue card was

D. the new blue card with syrup on it4. The experiment has proved that bees __________. A. cannot see colors B. can see colors C. cannot see blue D. cannot see red5. 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?

ant 蚂蚁

fly 苍蝇

beetle 甲虫

mosquito 蚊子

dragonfly 蜻蜓

butterfly 蝴蝶

cicada 蝉

grasshopper 蚱蜢

cockroach 蟑螂

cricket 蟋蟀

moth 蛾

flea 跳蚤

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?