Learning about Language说课稿【一等奖】

Book 4 Unit 2 Working the land Teaching Design

燕大附中

陈丽

Periods 1

Warming up and Reading The General Idea of This Period This period includes Warming up, Pre-reading, Reading and Comprehending of Unit 2.It introduces something about agriculture,especially about Dr Yuan and his super hybrid rice.It can help the students,especially the students in cities,know something about agriculture.In fact this world faces a serious problem—starvation.

So after reading the passage about Dr Yuan the students will know the importance of his achievement to man.Of course they will learn from Dr Yuan some noble characters,and learn how they should try their best to make contributions to the society.

Teaching Important Points

Help the students to understand the passage better.

Learn and master the important words and phrases in this period.

How to help the students make up their minds to make contributions to the society in the future like Dr Yuan.

Teaching Difficult Points

How to help the students improve their reading ability and understand the passage better.

How to master the important language points in this passage.

Teaching Methods

Fast reading to get the general idea of the text.

Detail reading to understand the passage better.

Explanation to help the students master some language points.

Discussion to help the students understand better what they’ve learned and to use the knowledge they’ve learned in this period.

Teaching Aids

A tape recorder

A multimedia

Three Dimensional Teaching Aims

Knowledge and Skills

Train the students’ reading ability.

Learn the following useful words,expressions and drills:

Words:sunburn,struggle,super,expand,circulate,equip,export

Expressions:rid...of,be satisfied with,lead a...life,search for,would rather,thanks to,with the hope of,rather than

Drills:

1) This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields.

2) He cares little about spending the money on himself or leading a comfortable life.

3) He also doesn’t care about being famous.

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4) He feels it gives him less freedom to do his research.

5) His other hobbies include playing mah-jong,swimming and reading.

6) Wishing for things,however,costs nothing.

Enable the students to learn more about agriculture,countryside and farming.They can exchange their experience with each other by talking and realize the role that agriculture plays in human life from this part.

Process and Strategies

Fast reading to make the students get the main idea of the passage.

Explanation to make the students master some language points.

Feelings and Value

It can help the students,especially the students in cities,know something about agriculture.Learn from YuanLongping and devote one’s life to our country. Teaching Procedures Step 1 Warming up

T:Good morning / afternoon everyone.

Ss:Good morning / afternoon,teacher.

T:In unit 1 the previews we learn some great women.Today we’ll learn something about a famous man.At first let’s look at the following pictures and tell me what the people are doing?

Ss:They are farming.

T:Are you from a farmer’s family?What do you know about farming?

(Show the following chart word by word on the screen,and ask them to tell more.)

soil

crops

ploughing

weather and climate

irrigating

... T: Look at some pictures and discuss how to grow rice. Step 2 Pre-reading

The purpose of this step is to let the students know the importance of rice.By answering the two questions,the students can easily understand why we call Dr Yuan Longping a pioneer for all people,and why he devotes all his life to the rice research.

T:What is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries?

Ss:Rice.It is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice every day throughout the world.

T:What do you think would happen if there was suddenly no rice to eat?

Ss:If that happened,people there would suffer from starvation.People would be panic(惊慌) and the whole country would get into trouble.

T:But today it will not happen because Dr Yuan Longping helps us.So today we’ll learn a passage about Dr Yuan,the Father of hybrid rice.Let’s come to the text.

Step 3 Skimming The reading material is about an agricultural pioneer named Yuan Longping who worked hard at

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a new strain of rice.It has proved so successful that his technology spread into other countries.The purpose of the fast reading is to let the students find some useful information，and get familiar with the text.So in this step,the teacher can design some questions the for the students,so that they can easily find the answers and finish the reading task.

T:Read the text fast and find out the answers to the questions on the screen.Then I’d like to ask you to answer them.

Show the questions on the screen and give the students three minutes to read the text quickly.

1.What is Dr Yuan’s appearance?

2.What’s his achievement?

3.Do you think he is a great man?Why? Three minutes later.

T:Now who would like to answer the first question?

S:1.He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim,strong body.He is more like a farmer than a scientist.

T:You are right,very good!What about the second one?

S:2.He grows what is called super hybrid rice,which makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields.Thanks to his research,the UN is trying to rid the world of hunger.Using his hybrid rice farmers’

producing harvests twice as large as before.

T:Do you think he is a great man?Why?

(Ss give their own answers.)

Step 4 Scanning T:Please read the text again,and try to find the answers for the following questions:

I’ll give you four minutes.

1.Why did Dr Yuan want to increase the rice output when he was young?2.How does he help rid the world of hunger?

3.What kind of life is Dr Yuan leading?

4.Use a few words to describe Dr Yuan’s personality.

Four minutes later.

T:Who have found the answer for the first question?

Suggested answers:

1.Dr Yuan wanted to increase the rice output because he saw many people go hungry when he was young.

2.He helps the world get rid of hunger by producing a hybrid strain of rice which increase the harvest.

3.Dr Yuan is leading a simple life,doing his research,listening to his music and riding his motor-bike.

4.Dr Yuan is a simple,academic man who is more interested in helping others than being famous.

Step 5 Extensive reading

T:Now please read the text for the third time,then fill the following chart:

Ss read and fill the chart:

NameYuan

Longping

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Born

Graduated

Appearance

He has __________ face and arms.His body is __________ but __________.All this makes him look as a real __________.

He succeeded in __________.

He became the first agricultural __________ in the world to grow __________

Achievements

whose output is high.He helped the government highly increase the __________ of grain.

Personality

1.care little for __________

2.would like to live a life of __________

3.has great __________.

Step 6 Discussion

Do you want to end the famine(饥荒)in the world?If you had the chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world,what would you do ?

Invent a new kind of plant to produce more food.

Find a sort of fertilizer(肥料)to give rice enough nutrition.

Stop the pollution to the environment and protect the soil in the field. Step 7 Language points

The teacher explains the important words and expressions from the reading.Try to use as many examples as possible to illustrate the point.After illustration,the teacher can give the students some exercise to consolidate their understanding.

Step 8 Homework

Finish the exercises on Workbook.

Prepare for the next class.

The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard Unit 2

Working the land Period 1

Warming up and Reading Language focus

1.rid...of

make sb./sth.free from (sb./sth.unpleasant)

e.g.We all wish that we would rid the world of famine.

The farmer recently tried to rid the house of rats.

2.lead a...life,live a...life

e.g.Now we are leading a happy life.

In the old days farmers led a terrible life in the country.

3.would rather,prefer to

e.g.I’d rather walk than take a bus.

I’d rather you knew that now,than afterwards.

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