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Unit2 Reading 扶风高中

王金丹

Teaching Analysis

Teaching objectives 1 Something about something about agriculture and farming in China and all around the world

2 Something about Dr Yun Longping and his contribution to Chinese people and to the fight to the world’s hanger.

Ability goals 1 Train the Ss to get main idea and specific ideas from the passage by means of skimming, canning, close reading, summarizing and comparing, and learn to express their opinions on what they learn about in the passage. Enable Ss to learn more about agriculture, countryside and farming. By talking they can exchange their experience with each other. 2 Enable Ss to use the proper learning strategies and promote their reading literacy .By reading they will realize the role that agriculture plays in human life. In fact this world faces a serious problem—starvation. So after reading the passage about Dr Yuan students will know the importance of his achievement to the world. Emotion goals

1 Ss will learn from Dr Yuan’s noble character—devoting himself to helping people with the food problem, making sure they have enough to eat. 2 Activate Ss’ critical & creative thinking while reading

Important teaching points

How to get the main idea and specific ideas from the passage Difficult teaching points

1 Further understanding and some difficult sentences, as well as guessing meaning of words from the context 2 Express their opinions on what they are learning about in the passage 5.Teaching procedures

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Step I

Lead-in & Revision:

Ask Ss to share their writing work. T: You wrote a poster as yesterday’s homework. Now please tell me what information you contained in your posters? Ss: …

T: Good. Now please come to the front of the class to share your posters.

(Teachers should encourage two or three groups to come to the front of the class to share their posters)

Step II Writing

Ask Ss to write another passage of persuasion. T: Now , we will write a passage of persuasion. What part should be included in your writing ? And how should we express our ideas? I’ll give you 2 minutes to discuss in groups. Ss: …

T: Good. Now, try to write the passage, using what you have just learnt. Ss:…

T: Ok, now, exchange your writings to be corrected, pay attention to the following points: 1.

What sentences do you think are beautiful? Mark them out and share among your groups. 2.

What mistakes can you find in the writing? If there are any, correct them and tell your partners why. 3.

Share with the whole class the sentences you think are well organized and beautifully written. Ss: …

Step III Reading practice 1 Pre-reading

T: We are going to read about another farming pioneer. Who is he?

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Ss:…

T: Yes he is Jia Sixie. Now, please try to get the main idea by looking at the title and pictures. Ss:…

While reading T: Read the passage and try to finish Ex1 on P53.

1. What made Jis Sixie become interested in improving Chinese farming.

2. How did he think of he could help farmers?

Suggested answer: 1. He saw some farmer produced good crops and healthy animals than other did. 2. He thought that when he found the best agricultural methods he would write them down so all farmers could read about them and benefit. Step III Important words and sentences

Guide Ss to deal with the language points

T: Please find and underline the important words, phrases and sentences and explain when they cannot understand them. 1. Useful expressions: intend to do, be lost in thought, advise sb. to do, give advice on doing/what to do…, hang up, knock…out (of…), turn over , suggest doing,

2 . Sentence structures:

①… he was able to go to his hometown to relax.P52..

②

Hr thought he could use his knowledge to find out the best way s for farmers to grow crops and then write a book to help them. P52

③

He advised farmers to clear weeds from the ground before planting crops. P52 .

Step IV Speaking Task

Guide Ss to talk about Jia Sixie’s ideas about framing.

T：

Work in groups and discuss the following questions. Remember that one of you should take notes on your conclusion

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1.

What ideas in Qi Mi Yao Shu are still useful in farming today? 2.

What problems do we have today in modern farming that Jia Sixie did not have in his time?

Ss: .. Step V. Writing

Ask Ss to be discussed about how to write a report about how useful JIa Sixie’s ideas are for modern times.

T: We are going to write how to write a report about how useful JIa Sixie’s ideas are for modern times. You can write according to the following steps: First ,write a sentence that states your main idea. This sentence will be the topic sentence for your introductory paragraph. Next, in sentence form, write sown the main points that support your main idea. These are the topic sentences for your next two or three paragraphs. Then, in sentence form, write down the details that support each of those main pints. These sentences will fill up the paragraphs for each main point.

Finally, write a sentence that restates your main idea, but in words different from those you used in your introductory paragraph. This sentence will be the topic sentence for your concluding paragraph. Got it? Now it’s time for you to write.

Ss: …

5.5.2 Present the writing in groups.

T: Who would like to show us your writing? (Teachers may ask 2-3 students to share their writings.)

Sample Writing 1,600 years ago the Chinese writer Jis Sixie wrote a book Qi Min Yao Shu about good agricultural. Today some of Jis Sixie’s ideas are still very useful to our modern times, but we have some prolems today that he never had in his time.

Some of Jisa Sixie ‘s ideas are still very useful to our modern times. Farmer still clear their fields of weeks. They still plough deeply the first time and less deeply the second time. In addition, farmers everywhere still understand that changing crops in

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the fields is still important.

However, we have some problems today that Jia Sixie never faced in his time. We have environmental pollution, that harms fields and crops. We have great competition in the marketplace. We have new dangerous and powerful crop diseases.

Although our modern farmers still use some of Jia Sixie’s ideas today, they face problems that were never heard of in Jia Sixie’s day.

Step V Talking and sharing

Guide Ss to do self-evaluation: What have I learnt in this period? What am I still confused about?

What should do to make them clear?

6. Homework

1) Polish your writing and copy it neatly in your exercises. 2) Finish Guidance on learning.

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