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Unit 2 Working the land (reading) Teaching goals

1.Target Language

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Words and expressions sunburn, struggle, super, expand, circulate, equip, export, rid…of, be satisfied with, lead a…life, search for, would rather, thanks to, with the hope of, rather than b.

Key sentences This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields.

P10 He cares little about spending the money on himself or leading a comfortable life.

P10 He also doesn’t care about being famous.

P10 He feels it gives him less freedom to do his research.

P10 His other hobbies include playing mahjong, swimming and reading.

P10 Wishing for things, however, costs nothing.

P10 2. Ability goals

Enable students to learn more about agriculture, countryside and farming. By talking they can exchange their experience with each other. 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 man. Of course they will learn from Dr Yuan some noble character. 3.

Learning ability goals

Help students learn how to describe Dr Yuan Longping including his personality. A.

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. B.

Teaching difficult points

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

Teaching aids

a projector and a computer. D. Teaching procedures & ways

Step1 Greeting and leading in

Enjoy a poem

Farmers weeding at noon,

Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray, Due to their toiling day.

T: Do you know the Chinese poem? Read it and say what does it mean? T: What do you think it is related to? S: About a farmer farming on a field, and the sun ,the weather must be very hot, and sweat falling down from the farmer’s face, so he must be very tired. We know our food all comes from the field, we won’t live without the farmer’s hard work. so we must cherish their food and not waste it Step 2 Warming up

T: Are you from a farmer’s family? S:

Yes

T: So your parents are all farmers and you live in the countryside.

T: What do you know about farming？Let’s look at some

pictures, Do you know these plants?

T: Do you know the farming steps? Let’s look at some

pictures.

T: Show some statistics about the population of the world and the hungry people in the world. Step 3 Pre-reading

(Discussion) The purpose of this step is to let students know the importance of rice. By answering the two questions, students can easily understand why we call Dr Yuan Long ping a pioneer for all people, and why he devotes all his life to the rice research. 1. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? 2. If you had the chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world, what would you do? T :S o

farmers are now using a new way to grow crops, which is called hybrid. Step 4 Fast reading

The purpose of fast reading is to let students find some useful information and get familiar with the text. So in this step, teacher designs some questions for students, so that they can easily find the answers and finish the reading task. 1. What does Dr Yuan look like?

2. What’s his achievement?

3. What do you think of him? Step 5

Careful Reading

1. Give students 5 minutes to read and find the main idea of the text.T : What is the main idea of the text? S: Yuan Long ping---an agricultural pioneer Show the chart on the screen.

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PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE Para.1 His appearance and achievements. Para.2 His biography. Para.3 His personality. Para.4 His dreams. Five minutes later, teachers can ask some of them to fill in the chart. They can use words, phrases, or sentences to do this.

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PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE Para.1. He wants everyone to call him a farmer. (1) A scientist works the land. (2) Sun burnt face and arms, slim, strong body. (3) Grow hybrid rice.

(4) The first agricultural pioneer. Para 2. His biography. (1) In 1931, born. (2) In 1953, graduated and devoted his life to finding ways to grow rice. (3) Last year, twenty billion tons of rice was produced. Now, Dr Yuan is circulating his knowledge. Para.3. His personality. He is satisfied with his life. Because he doesn’t like money and fame. Para.4. His dreams. (1) The first dream. (2) The second dream. Reading Comprehension

1.Which of the following description about Dr Yuan’s appearance is not mentioned?

A. He has a slim and strong body.

B. He has a sun burnt face.

C. He is very tall.

D. He is more like a farmer than a scientist.

2. Which of the following description about Dr Yuan’s personality

is not true?

A. He is satisfied with his life because he is now rich and famous.

B. He cares little about money and fame.

C. He would rather work than lead a comfortable life.

D. He enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people. 3. The Dr Yuan’s dream about rice was that _________.

A. each ear of rice was as big as an ear of corn

B. the rice plants as tall as sorghum

C. each grain of rice was as huge as a peanut

D. all of above is right Step6

Summary and Homework

Today we talked about agriculture. And we also read about Dr Yuan Long ping. We have known much about the great scientist. Of course we have learned some words and expressions about farming.

Please try to grasp these words and expressions after class.

Read the passage and try to retell the passage