Learning about Language教案教学设计导入整理

教学设计

BOOK4

UNIT 2

Working the land Period 3

Learning

about

language :

Important

Language

Points 教学重点

1. Enable students to grasp the usages of such important new words and expressions as struggle, expand, therefore, export, thanks to, rid.. of, be satisfied with, would rather,etc. 2. Get students to master the patterns “This special strain of rice makes it possible to Produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields”. and"Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before.”

教学难点

1. Let students learn how to use struggle and would rather. 2. Enable students to learn the sentence pattern "This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields.”

3. Get students to understand some difficult and long sentences. 三维目标

知识目标

1. Get students to learn and grasp the important useful new words and expressions in this part: statistic, sunburnt, struggle, decade, super,

output, crop, hunger, disturbing, expand, circulate, Vietnam, battle, rid, freedom, there fore, equip, grain, export, nationality, occupation, thanks to, rid... of, be satisfied with, would rather 2. Let students learn the following important useful sentence patterns: 1) Although he is one of China’s most famous scientists, Yuan Longping considers himself a farmer, for he works the land to do his research (consider+O. +n., for-clause) 2) Dr Yuan Longping grows what is called super hybrid rice. (what is called...) 3) This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields (make it+adi. +to do…) 4) Since then, finding ways to grow more rice has been his life goal. (the-ing form as the subject) 5) Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger (thanks to…) 6) Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before. (twice /three times... as+adj. +as ...) 7) He would much rather keep time for his hobbies (would rather do..) 8) Each ear of rice was as big as an ear of corn and each grain of rice was as huge as a peanut (as+adj. -as ...) 能力目标

1. Get students to use some useful new words and expressions correctly.

2. Enable students to make sentences after the useful sentence patterns. 情感目标

1. Stimulate students'interest in learning English. 2. Develop students spirit of cooperation and teamwork. 教学过程

Step 1 Revision 1. Check the homework exercises. 2.Ask students to dictate some useful new words and expressions. Step 2 Vocabulary study 1. Let students review the new words and expressions in Warming up, pre-reading ,Reading and Comprehending and give time to students to ask their own questions. 2. Ask students to learn some new words using the word formation. 3. Explain some key new words and expressions. Step 3 Practice for useful words and expressions Let students do the following exercises and check the answers after most of them finish (on page 12 ) 1. Find the words or phrases from the text for each of these meanings. 1)______brown(skin) from spending too much time in the sun 2)_____to make somebody or something free of 3)_____to become larger in size, number or amount 4)______prefer to

5)______to make information and ideas known to many people 6)______to try extremely hard to achieve something 7)______to send things to foreign countries for sale 8)______pleased by having what one wants or needs 9)______to provide with things necessary for a certain purpose 10)______because of 2.Find words from the Previous pages of this unit to replace the underlined words. You may need to change the words' form to fit. 1) According to the WHOS information, about 1. 8 million people across the world die each year from diseases caused by unsafe food and water 2) Different kinds of strong corn, another hybrid grain, has been developed by scientists of many different races. 3) Not having enough food leads to poor health and, therefore, sickness. 4) Over 56 percent of the people in a small Southeast Asian country are in jobs related to agriculture. 5)With the open conditions in today’s international business world, hybrid grains can be sold and sent broad to countries around the world. 3. Complete the passage with the words below in their proper forms

disturbing, expand, output, struggle, battle, grain, crops, decade, equip In the past________,some of the farmers in the west of China have met with some success in the_______ against the_______ desert._______ with new scientific farming methods, they have been able to use less land than in the past. Their_____of_______and other _____,however is still the same, which makes it possible for them to use the remaining farmland for planting trees. These and other farmers are starting to win small_______in the great war against the_______growth of the desert. Step 4 Sentence focus Ask students to read through the Warming up and Reading again to find out the difficult sentences they can't understand and give time to students to ask their own questions. Explain them to the class. Step5

Work book exercises for consolidation Ask students to do the exercises in Using words and ex pressions on Page 49 to consolidate what they have learned in this period Step 6 Homework 1. Learn the new words and expressions in this part by heart. 2. Finish off the Workbook exercises 3. Do Exercise I on Page 49 in the exercise book.

板书设计

Unit 2 Working the land Learning about language: Important language points Important vocabulary

Important sentence patterns

statistic,sunburnt,struggle, 1.This special strain of rice makes it decade,super,output,crop, possible to pro duce one-third more of the hunger,disturbing,expand, crop in the same field circulate, Vietnam, battle, 2.Since then, finding ways to grow more rid,freedom,therefore equip.grain,export, nationality,occupation, rice has been his life goal. 3. Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of thanks to, rid..of.., Be hunger. satisfied rather

with, would

4. Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before. 5. He would much rather keep time for his hobbies