Learning about Language名师教学视频（文字实录）

新课标必修四B4 Unit2 Working the land 教学设计

Reading --A Pioneer for All People 河北赵县中学

赵敏霞

Teaching Aims: 1. Develop students’ reading skills through skimming and scanning.

2. Ask students to be aware of the serious problems in agriculture. 3. Get students to know about Yuan Longping and his super hybrid rice. 4. Through discussion, students are aware of some practical problems in farming. 6. Get students to notice and learn some useful phrases. Teaching Important Points: Improve students’ reading ability and help them understand the passage better. Teaching Difficult Points: 1. How to find information with the help of some key words. 2. How to put what students have learned into practice. Teaching Methods: 1. Brainstorm before reading to cause students to think about the problem existing in farming and give their suggestions. 2. Skimming and scanning to understand the passage and find some facts. 3. Evaluation to help students to use what they’ve learned to make a comment.

4. Discussions in the form of group work to urge students to find information Teaching Aids: 1. a computer 2. a blackboard Teaching Procedures: Step 1. Lead-in Greet students and show students some interesting pictures. Step 2. Brainstorm Let Students compare three groups of pictures and tell the problem teacher is worried about, then ask students for suggestions to solve the problem.

Question 1) Who’s famous for doing research in super hybrid rice in China?

(Yuan Longping.) Ask students to look at the portrait of Yuan Longping and express their impression of him. Question 2) What’s your first impression of him?

(He looks like a farmer.) Question 3) What causes you to think that he looks like a farmer? (His sunburnt face, arms and slim, strong body.) Question 4) What do you know about him? Students say something about Yuan Longping if they can. Step 3. Reading Activity 1 Get students to read the passage quickly and do “True or False” exercise.

1. Dr Yuan’s kind of rice is the most suitable for China’s farmland. (T)

2. Dr Yuan would rather work than relax. (T) 3. Dr Yuan enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people. (T) 4. Last year Chinese farmers produced five times as much rice as they did in 1950. (F) (four times) 5. Yuan is now circulating his knowledge in developed countries. (F) (less developed) 6. Dr Yuan enjoys swimming and reading as well as playing the violin in his spare time. (F) (He no longer plays the violin now.) 7. Dr Yuan has dreams when he is asleep and also when he is awake. (T) Step 4 Evaluation Question: What kind of person is Dr Yuan Longping in your mind? Step 5 Discussion Activity 1 Compare Dr Yuan Longping and Jane Goodall and find their similarities and differences. (Students have a discussion in groups of four and every member is offered a chance to express what he/she gets.) (Suggested answers: Similarities: 1. They spend their lifetime on their researches.

2. They make great contributions to mankind and the whole world. 3. They have their dreams and make great efforts to make them true. 4. They both lead a busy life. 5. They love their work with their pure love. 6. They’re selfless and seldom think of themselves.

7. During the work, they never give up but just keep on, so they’re determined. . . .

Differences: 1. They have been doing their researches in different fields. 2. They have different ways of working. 3. Their receiving education is different. 4. The difficulty in working is different for different sexes. 5. They two got different results of researches. 6. They hold their different dreams.) . . . Activity 2 Question: Do you think Dr Yuan’s dreams can come true? Why do you think so? Give your reasons. (Students discuss the topic in groups of four. After it, they choose a reporter to report their results.) Step 6 Homework Students are required to write a composition about a great or famous person.