Unit 19 Modern Agriculture

Teaching Aims and Demands
Words and Phrases
Four Skills: protectiontechnicalimport production method tie discovery garden
gardening wisdom practical guide firstly condition remove generation d
epend on and so on
Three Skills: techniqueirrigation pump seed insect root golden sow soil weed
sunflower
Spoken English:
Giving advice and making decisions
In my opinion you should … I think he is right …
If I were you … Wouldn’t it be better if …?
We can’t do both, so… The other idea sounds better to me…
We have to make a choice ….
As far as I can see the best thing would be to …
Grammar:
The use of “it” （2）: ----强调句中的某一成分
1. 强调主语
The children often help the parents do he farm work.
It is the children who often help the parents do the farm work.
2. 强调宾语
Future agriculture should depend on high technology.
It is high technology that future agriculture should depend on.
3. 强调地点、时间等状语。
The farmers produced food for the whole population of China on this arable land.
It was high technology that future agriculture should depend on.
Use of Language:
Help the students to finish the tasks of listening, reading, writing, speaking presented in the book and the exercise book through using what the students have known. Learn the text Modern Agriculture and Farming and Gardening. Get the students to feel the role the agriculture plays in our life and the effect of high technology in agriculture.
Important points:
The way to give advice and make a decision.
Difficult points: The use of “it”.
Teaching aids: Computer, tape-recorder
Way of Teaching: 交际法教学

Lesson1
Step 1 Warming Up
Ask the students to first study the graph in the book and make sure they understand what information it provides: The graph shows the growth of major farm productions over the period from 1991-1995 in relation to period from 1986-1990. What it shows in that for example for grain, the production in the four years from 1991-1995 was 10% more than in the four years from 1986-1990.
For answers to the question 1:
The produce for all products was higher than before. Especially the produce of meat, fish and fruit has increased very sharply.
1. People are earning more money, so they want to buy and eat or meat.
2. People learn more about healthy food, so they want to eat more fruit.
3. Eating fish doesn’t make people as fat as eating meat, so people like eating more fish.
For answers to the question 2
1. People want to buy different products, so farmers need to grow different things.
2. Farmers want to make more money. When they can grow extra crops or other crops on their land or land which they can’t use to grow grain, they will for example plant fruit trees. In the end, they will bring more fruit trees.
For answers to the question 3
1. First, Chinese people are eating more meat. Next, farmers have to raise more pigs, sheep and cattle. So, more grass is needed to feed more sheep and cattle. So, farmers need more grassland. Possibly, they will cut down trees to take more land on which to grow grass.
2. If farmers want to grow different crops they would plant them together. This can be very good for the soil.
Step 2 Listening
Get the students to listen to the text and then check their answers.
Answer to exercise 1: History of farming farmers in China Protection of nature trees Environmental problems dikes
Answer to exercise 2: 1. True 2. False 3. False 4. True 5. False
Answer to exercise 3: 1. (all kinds of ) environmental problems 2. destroyed 3. floods 4. droughts 5. farming 6. go against nature 7. too wet 8. farming/growing wheat/growing crops 9. fishponds
Step 3 Speaking
First show the students some pictures of kinds of lands being
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