Learning about Language第二课时教学设计

Unit2 Working the land Learning about language 第一学时：

教学目标:1.利用课本挖空进行听力训练。

2.找出文章中含有-ING形式作主语和宾语的句子。并试着分析和归纳。

重点难点：快速捕捉需要的信息。

教学方法：独立完成听力和寻找句子；小组讨论；核对答案；归纳快速查找方法。

一、听文章，补全空格。

A pioneer for all people Although he is one of China’s most famous scientists, Yuan Longping ______ himself a farmer, for he works the land to do his research. Indeed, his sunburnt face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like those of millions of Chinese farmers, for whom he has _______ for the past fice decades. Dr Yuan Longping grows ___is called super hybrid rice. In 1974, he became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow Rick that has a high output. This special strain of Rick ____ ___ _____to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields. Now more than 60% of the rice produced in China each year is from this hybrid strain. Born into a poor farmer’s family in 1930, Dr Yuan graduated ____Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Since then, finding ___ __ ___more rice has been his life goal. __ a young man, he saw the great need for increasing the rice output. At that time, _____ was

a disturbing problem in many parts of the countryside. Dr Yuan searched for a way to increase rice harvests without _______ the area of the fields. In 1950, Chinese farmers could produce only fifty million tons of rice. In a recent harvest, however, nearly two hundred million tons of rice was _____. These increased harvests mean that 22% of thwart world’s people are fed from just 7% of the farmland in China. Dr Yuan is now ________ his knowledge in India, Vietnam and many other less developed countries to increase their rice harvests. ____ ___ his research, farmers are producing harvests twice __ ____ __before. Dr Yuan is quite________with his life. However, he doesn't care about being famous. He feels it gives him less freedom to do his research. He ____ ____ keep time for his hobbies. He enjoys listening to volin music, playing mah-jong, swimming and reading. Spending money __himself or ______ a comfortable life also means very little to him. Indeed, he believes that a person with to much money has more rather than fewer troubles. He ______gives millions of Yuan to ____others for their research in agriculture. Just dreaming for things, however, _____nothing. Long ago Dr Yuan had a dream about rice plants as tall as sorghum. Each ear of rice was as big as an ear of corn and each grain of rice was as huge as a peanut. Dr Yuan awoke from his dream ____ __ ___ __ producing a kind of rice that could feed more people. Now, many years later, Dr Yuan has ____ dream: to export his rice so that it can be grown around the globe. One dream is not always enough, _______for a person who loves and cares for his people. 二、做课本12页的

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三、再读课文，找出课文中动词-ing形式做主语和宾语的句子。

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