本章主要分为四部分，即热身活动与课文背景介绍，文本赏析，文本语言点的理解与运用，以及拓展阅读与思考活动，本单元的知识结构如下图所示。

Warm-up

1. Warm-up Questions

2. Adam was a gardener

Background Information

1. Author

2. Adam a Gardener

3. Gardening

Text Analysis

1. Theme

2. Structure

3. Questions

4. Discussion

Writing Devices

1. Irony

2. Personification

3. Contrast

Language Study

1. Word Study

bind; resolve; sparingly; skeptical; conceivable; extension; glisten; striving; scent; thrust; justify; somehow; cultivate; delicate; delusion

2. Phrases and Expressions

tell apart; as it is/as it were; mean business; worm one’s way; goes for; come into (play); regardless of; patch/plot of

3. Grammar

1) Subject clause

2) Object clause

3) Predicative clause

4. Word Formation

Compounding

Noun + Present Participle/ Past Participle

noun + free

Extension

1. Oral Work

2. Quizzes

3. Writing