Learning about Language教学设计

Teaching Plan

By Chen Chen Teaching content: Unit2 Working the land--Warming Up and Reading Learning objectives: Ability aims: Learn to search for useful information and summarize the main idea. Students should be able to make up dialogues with the target language. Moral aims: Raise students’ awareness of cherishing food. Encourage students to try to help the people suffering from hunger. Important points: 1.Have a general understanding of Yuan Longping’s life experiences and achievements. 2.Learn to extract useful information from the text. 3.Improve the students’ reading, writing and speaking abilities. 4.Learn to cooperate with classmates. Difficult points: 1.Locate the specific information within limited time. 2.Make up a dialogue based on the authentic context. 3.Make a presentation fluently and logically. Teaching methods: 1.Task-based language teaching method. 2.Individual and group work. Teaching procedures: Lead-in: Do a math problem: How much farmland is there in China? Task1

Scanning: Find out the main idea of each paragraph.(Match each paragraph with its main idea) Para1

Dr Yuan's dreams Para2

Dr Yuan's personality Para3

Dr Yuan's life experiences Para4

Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement. Task2 Careful reading Para1 1. What dose Dr. Yuan look like? ____________________________________. 2.

What is his achievement?________________________________________. Para2 Personal information (fill in the blanks) Name

Born

Age

College education

Occupation(Job) Life goal

Fill in the blanks with the numbers in Para1&2 1.In 1950,Chinese farmers could produce about _________million tons of rice.

2.In 1973,he grew super hybrid rice which produce _____more rice in the same fields. 3.In a recent harvest, however, nearly ____ million tons of rice was produced.

4.It means ____of the world’s people are fed from just _____of the farmland in the world. 5.Now, More than _____ of the rice produced in China each year is from this hybrid strain. 6.Using his hybrid rice,farmers are producing harvests ______as large as before. Para3 Dr Yuan's personality and hobbies How would you describe Yuan’s personality? 1.He doesn’t care about fame.(why) Because he needs _______ for research and keeps ____ for his hobbies.

2.Money means little to him.(why) Because he think money can bring him______ , and he give millions of yuan to equip others for their research in __________ . His hobbies 1.

_______________

2.______________ 3._________________ Para4 His dreams 1.

_________________________________________________________________. 2.

_________________________________________________________________. Task3 Summary Dr Yuan Longping, one of China's most famous scientists, has made great _______(achieve) in agriculture both at home and abroad.Dr Yuan graduated_______ Southwest Agricultural College in 1953, when many parts of the countryside were short of food. To solve the problem, Dr Yuan struggled___________(find) a new way to improve harvests without ____________ (expand) the area of the fields. Through many years of hard work, Dr Yuan developed what is called “super hybrid rice”

in 1974. He became the first agricultural pioneer in the world___________ (grow) rice that has a high output. He has also circulated his knowledge to some other countries. Thanks____his research. The UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world ____ hunger. Dr Yuan is __________ (satisfy) with his life but he would like to have more time to do his research _________ (free). Famous as he is, Dr Yuan wants to lead a simple life and has a dream to export his rice so that it can _____________ (grow) around the world. Consolidation

Group work 1 Role play: An interview D= Dr Yuan

A= Dr Yuan's assistant

C= Reporter R:Dr Yuan, how are you, I'm very glad that you can accept my interview. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions? D: Of course not. Go ahead...... R:Why did you want to increase the rice output when you were young? D: That's because...... R: (Turn to Dr Yuan's assistant) Nice to meet you! You must be very familiar with Dr Yuan. How would you like to describe his personality? A: In fact, he is...... R: (Still ask his assistant) Dr Yuan was able to develop a successful agricultural product while thousands of other farmers could not. What do you think is the main

reason for his success? A: He cares for his people. He....... R:Dr Yuan, you thinks that a person with too much money has more rather than fewer troubles. Why? D: Hah, well...... Group work 2 Poster Design ▪Design a poster for World Food Day--One of its aims is to help the world struggle against hunger, malnutrition(营养不良) and poverty. ▪Write a slogan (口号、标语) to appeal to the world to save food Homework: 1.Review the text and language points. 2.Finish the exercises on P12.