Unit 2 Working the land
Teaching aims:
1. Target Language
a.Words and phrases
sunburn, struggle, super, expand, circulate, equip, export, rid ... of, be satisfied with, lead a ... life, search for, would rather, thanks to, with the hope of, rather than
b. Important sentences
This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields. P10
He cares little about spending the money on himself or leading a comfortable life. P10
2. Ability goals
Enable Ss to learn more about agriculture, countryside and farming. By talking they can exchange their experience with each other. By reading they will realize the role that agriculture plays in human life. In fact this world faces a serious problem—starvation. So after reading the passage about Dr Yuan students will know the importance of his achievement to man. Of course they will learn from Dr Yuan some noble character.
3. Learning ability goals
Help Ss learn how to describe Dr Yuan Longping including his personality.
Teaching important points
a. Help to comprehend the text and grasp the main idea of the text.
b. Grasp the usage of some words and expressions.
c. How to help students make up their minds to make contributions to motherland in the future like Dr Yuan.
Teaching difficult points
a. How to help students learn more about agriculture.
b. Help students really master the usage of words and expressions.
Teaching methods
Talking, questioning-and-answering activity and reading.
Teaching aids
A tape recorder, a projector and a computer.
Teaching procedures && ways
The first period Reading
Step 1.Greeting and Revision
1.Greet the students as normal.
2.Revise the warming up with the following question
How do you think to grow our main food--rice?
-----1)First, the farmers plow the field. They have to make the soil loose enough to plant crops.
2)Second,grow some young plants
3)Third, they insert the young plants into the loose field.
4)At last ,they will get the harvest
Step 2 Pre-reading
1 Ask the following questions
1).What’s the main food in Canada and USA:
----- potatoes and bread
2).What is the main food in South America:
----- corn/maize
3 )What is the main food in Southeast Asian countries:
----- rice
2 Show the students some pictures and ask the question
What is happening to these people in East Asian and Southeast Asian countries?
Then show more news like that:
International Facts on Hunger and Poverty (2002)
1)Every 8 seconds, a child somewhere in the world dies from starvation.
2)More than 800 million people in the world suffer from malnutrition (营养不良)---799 million of them are from the developing world. More than 153 million of them are under the age of 5.
At last ask the students to discuss:
If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do?
Encourage the students to tell their opinions, Then give a conclusion:
The only way to solve the food shortage problem is to increase the output of the grain crop per land area through the advancement of science and technology.
3.lead the students to pay attention to the people---Yuan Longping
Ask : What do you know about him?
--------Father of Hybrid Rice
Then lead to the topic of the reading passage. A Pioneer For All People
Step 3 Listening
Listen to the tape, try to find out some information of the hero.
Name ____________
Age ____________
Job _____________
Education _________
Achievement _______
Hobbies __________
Step 4 Fast reading
Read the passage quickly and answer the true-or- false questions
•1.Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist.
•2. Dr Yuan’s kind of rice is the mo
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