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人教版高中英语必修四Unit 2 Working the land A Pioneer for All People 屯字中学

郭小霞

Teaching aims:

(1) Get students to learn and master the important words and phrases in this part

(2) Enable students comprehend Dr. Yuan’s work and life and learn how to describe Dr. Yuan including his personality. (3) Enable students learn how to help the world get rid of hunger. Teaching important and difficult points:

(1) Help students comprehend the text and grasp the main idea of each paragraph.. (2) Help students learn the usage of new words and expressions. (3) How to improve students’

reading skills. Aids:

A tape recorderA multimedia

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Warming up

Show some pictures to the students and ask students two questions: 1.

Do you know what they are doing ?

2.

Have you ever been to the countryside? Step 2 Pre-reading

(1) Show some facts about the world hunger and ask the students to express their feelings. (2)A Chinese scientist is helping the hungry people. Who is he? ------Yuan Longping (3) Guess the style of the passage according to the title “A pioneer for all people”. Step 3 Reading

1.Skimming Find out the main idea of each paragraph,try to

write out the main idea of each paragraph Paragraph 1: Dr Yuna and his achievement Paragraph 2: His biography Paragraph 3: His personality Paragraph 4: His dreams 2. Careful Reading

Para. 1

Find out Dr. Yuan’s appearance and his achievement. Para. 2

Put the sentences into right order according to paragraph 2. Para. 3

(1) Which of the following description about Dr Yuan’s personality is not true? A. He cares little about money and fame.

B. He would rather work than lead a comfortable life. C. He enjoys a simpler life. D. He is satisfied with his life because he is now rich and famous. (2) Ask students to use some adjectives to describe Dr. Yuan’s personalities. Para. 4

(1) Ask students to find out Dr. Yuan’s two dreams. (2) Ask the students to explain the sentence “Just dreaming for things, however, costs nothing.”

3.Post reading

Read the text carefully and choose the best answers. 1. What does the word “battle”

refer to in the second paragraph? A. The low rice output. B. Ridding the world of hunger. C. Fighting against farming. D. The freedom to do research. 2. From the passage, we can know ______. A. Yuan Longping is not a pioneer but a scientist in the research of the hybrid rice B. Yuan’s parents are both agricultural scientists C. more than 60% of the rice produced in the world is from the hybrid strain

D. using the hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before 3. It can be inferred from the text that ______. A. Yuan knew the importance of rice import B. Yuan is interested in playing the violin C. Yuan is proud of his achievements D. Yuan’s rice are grown in many countries Step 4 Discussion

Even if Dr.Yuan’s dreams come true, can this really solve starvation? Dr. Yuan grows super hybrid rice to help the world get rid of hunger. Can you think out any other useful measures to help end hunger in the world? Step 5 Homework

Ask students to search the web to find more information about Yuan Longping. Try to retell Dr.Yuan and super hybrid rice 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.