Learning about Language教学设计第一课时

Unit 2 Working the land The First Period Teaching goals

1、Words and expressions in this part 2、Some long and difficult sentences

Ability goals

Enable Ss to learn more about agriculture, countryside and farming. By talking they can exchange their experience with each other. Learning ability goals

Help Ss learn how to describe Dr Yuan Longping including his personality. Teaching important points

1. Help to comprehend the text and grasp the main idea of the text. 2. Grasp the usage of some words and expressions. 3. How to help students make up their minds to make contributions to motherland in the future like Dr Yuan. Teaching difficult points

1. How to help students learn more about agriculture. 2. Help students really master the usage of words and expressions. Teaching methods

Talking, questioning-and-answering activity and reading. Teaching aids

A tape recorder, a projector and a computer. Teaching procedures

Step Ⅰleading in & Warming up T says: In last unit we learnt some great women. Today we’ll learn a famous man, who has made great contributions to growing rice that has a high output. Give Ss a few minues to learn some information about Dr. Yuan Longping. Notes:

Yuan Longping, “father of hybrid rice”，

has a dream that he cultivates rice as plump (饱满的) as peanuts, and farmers can relax in the cool shadow of big rice plants.

Yuan won a 5millionyuan State Supreme Science and Technology Award when he was 71 years old, known as the Nobel Prize in China, for his outstanding achievements in breeding highyield hybrid rice, which has greatly increased China‘s grain output. A minor planet was named after him，which was the first time a Chinese scientist’s name is so valued.

Yuan came up with the idea of hybridizing rice for the first time in the 1960s. Since then, 50 percent of China's total rice cultivation fields have grown such rice, which added some 300 billion kilograms to the country's grain output. Yuan in his 70s has devoted most of his life to growing rice.

He hopes to popularize the hybrid rice around the world to remove starvation from the earth. In 1980, Yuan went to the United States to share his knowledge about the cultivation technology of hybrid rice. He has done a lot to bring his research methods to other countries. Step Ⅱ

Pre-reading

Answering the two questions below:

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why do we call Dr Yuan Longping a pioneer for all people? 2.

why he devotes all his life to the rice research? T:Today we are going to read a passage about him. Let’s see how he helped the world to solve the problem- starvation. Please open your books to Page 9.

Step III

Fast Reading 1.

scanning

Scan the passage and then choose the best answers according to the passage. (1)Why does Yuan Longping work the land? A．Because he was born into a farmer's family. B．Because he needs to do his research on farming. C．Because he is interested in farming.

D．Because he has a slim and strong body. (2)If Yuan Longping works with other farmers in the field,

it is hard to tell him from others because ________. A．he regards himself as a farmer B．he is really like other farmers C．he wears simple clothes like other farmers D．people don‘t know who Yuan Longping is

(3)From the text, we can know that ________. A．Yuan Longping found a way to increase rich harvests by expanding the area of fields

B．Yuan Longping is satisfied with his life because he is famous and rich C．in the 1950s, many parts of the countryside were short of food D．his way of increasing rice harvests only works in some Asian countries (4)What is Yuan Longping's attitude towards money? A．Too much money will cause a lot of troubles. B．Money is of no use to a scientist. C．Money is not important at all. D．One has to spend all his money on his own research. (5)The whole passage mainly talks about__________. A．how to solve the world's hunger problem B．how to increase rice harvests C．Yuan Longping's achievements in farming D．Yuan Longping's daily life 2.Careful reading 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 students three minutes to read the text quickly.

1. Why did Yuan Longping want to increase the rice output when he was young? 2. Is Dr Yuan more of a scientist or more of a farmer? Do you think he is a businessman?

3. How would you describe Dr Yuan’s personality? Use three or four adjectives.

4. What do you think is the main reason for his success? 5. Dr Yuan thinks that a person with too much money has more rather than fewer troubles. Do you agree or disagree? Why?

6. Dr Yuan developed super hybrid rice to help Chinese farmers and hungry people around the world. Can you think of any other major development that would make a great difference to world hunger?

3.Further reading Read the passage and match each paragraph with its main idea. Paragraph 1 (

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A．Yuan Longping's brief life experiences. Paragraph 2 (

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B．Yuan Longping's dreams. Paragraph 3 (

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C．Yuan Longping's attitudes toward life. Paragraph 4 (

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D．Yuan Longping's achievements in

the improvements on rice

production. The text is about __________ who has made a great contribution to producing better __________ . Step IV

Listening and Post-reading

Play the speech cassette ,giving Ss listening and reading practice to make theem a further understanding.

StepⅤ

Summary Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks.

Dr Yuan Longping, one of China's most famous scientists, has made great (1)

in agriculture both at home and abroad.Born into a poor farmer's family, Dr Yuan graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953, when many parts of the countryside were short of food.To solve the problem, Dr Yuan (2)

to find a new way to improve harvests without (3)

the area of the fields.Through many years of hard work, Dr Yuandeveloped what is called “super hybrid rice” in 1974.He became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high (4)

.He has also (5)

his knowledge to some other countries. (6)

his research, the

UN has more tools in the battle to (7)

the world of hunger.Dr Yuan is (8)

with his life but he would like to have more (9)

to do his research.Famous as he is, Dr Yuan wants to lead a simple life and has a dream to (10)

his rice so that it can be grown around the world. Step Ⅵ

Discussion Now please look at the poem on the screen.

A HARD - WORKING FARMER by Li Shen.

Farmers weeding at noon,

Sweat down the field soon.

Who knows food on a tray,

Due to their toiling day? T says:I’d like you to think: even if Dr Yuan’s dreams come true, can this really solve the starvation? Why? Think it over. I’ll ask some of you to give your opinion in the class. StepⅦ

Homework 1Try to grasp some important words and expressions after class.

2.Finish the exercises in Learning about Language. Exercise 1, 2 and 3 are about useful words and expressions.

Afterthoughts: By reading Ss 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 have known the importance of his achievement to man. Of course they will learn from Dr Yuan some noble character.I’m content with their reaction.