Learning about Language优质课教案

Working the Land Learning about Language Learning goals 1. Target language

disturbing, expand, output, struggle, battles, grain, crops, decade, equip 2. Ability goals

Enable Ss to master the use of the vocabulary and expressions. 3. Learning ability goals

Help Ss learn how to enlarge the words and structures. Learning important and difficult points

How to grasp the words and phrases and be able to use them freely. Learning methods

Show questions and finish all the tasks. Learning procedures & ways

StepⅠFind the word or phrase from the text for each of these meanings. 1. brown (skin) from spending too much time in the sun 2. to make something or somebody free of 3. to become larger in size, number or amount 4. to make information and ideas known to many people 5. would prefer to 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. plants grown in large amounts by farmers 11. because of

Keys: sunburnt, rid…of, expand, circulate, would rather, struggle, export, satisfied with, equip, crop, thanks to StepⅡ

Find words from the previous pages of this unit to replace the underlined words. You may need to change the words’ forms to fit.

1. According to the WHO’s 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 abroad to countries around the world.

Keys: statistics, globe

super, nationalities

Hunger, disease

Vietnam, occupations

freedom, exported Step Ⅲ

Complete the passage with the words below in their proper forms. disturbing

expand

output

struggle battles

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 farmland 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 treat war against the ________ growth of the desert.

Keys: decade, struggle, expanding, Equipped, output, grain, crops, battles, disturbing