Learning about Language第一课时评课稿

Periods 2 & 3 Pre-reading, Reading & Comprehending Teaching Goals:

1. To learn about Yuan Longping. 2. To develop Ss’ some basic reading skills. 3. To arouse Ss’

interest in learning about agriculture, the reading text and Professor Yuan’s quality. Teaching Procedures: Step 1. Pre-reading Purpose: To arouse Ss’ interest in learning about Yuan longping.

1. Show some pictures, and encourage Ss to give as much information as possible.

2. Let Ss work in pairs to discuss the following questions. （1）Do you think there is enough rice to eat in the world now? What if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice enough to eat?

（2）What would you do to end hunger if many people go hungry in the world as showed in the 4th

picture?.

Step 2. Leading-in Purpose: To arouse Ss’ interest in the text and encourage Ss to imagine the content of the text. 1. Ask Ss to answer the questions below.

(1)

Who is the person in the picture?

(2)

Can you guess what his job is?

2. Ask Ss to talk about Yuan longping according to what they know.

Step 3. Fast reading

Purpose: To get a brief understanding of the text. 1. Ask Ss to read the text quickly and try to get the main idea of the text. 2. Ask Ss to get the main idea of each paragraph and complete the following form. Paragraphs 1 2 3 4 Paragraphs 1 2 3 4

Hints ①

The scientist’s appearance

②

His achievement—super hybrid rice. ①

Yuan’s family background

②

His agricultural research

Yuan’s noble personality.

Yuan’s dreams. Hints Suggested Answers: Step 4. Intensive reading Purpose: To get Ss to have some details in the text. 1. Ask Ss to read the text carefully and work in pairs to finish Ex1 of Comprehending on P11. 2. Ask Ss to take the quiz below and see whether Ss can grasp the details of the text. (1) Why does Yuan want everyone to call him a farmer?

A. Because he is one of China’s most famous scientists.

B. Because he works the land to do his research.

C. Because his sunburnt face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like those of millions of other Chinese farmers.

D. Because he thinks of himself as a farmer. (2) The second paragraph tells us that nearly _____million tons of rice was produced by Chinese farmers last year.

A. 200

B. 50

C.20

D 500 (3) Thanks to his research, farmers are producing harvest ____ as large as before.

A. 22%

B. twice

C. 7%

D. four times (4) Dr Yuan still has the following hobbies except_____ in his spare time now.

A. Playing the violin.

B. Playing mah-jong.

C. Swimming

D. Reading. (5) How does professor Yuan feel about money?

A. Money is the most important in his life.

B. Too much money can bring more happiness rather than troubles.

C. Money is nothing.

D. He cares little about the money spent on himself. (6) What was not once in Professor Yuan’s dream?

A. Rice was as tall as sorghum.

B. Each ear of rice was as big as an ear of corn.

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

D. He exported his rice and it was grown all over the world.

Suggested Answers: (1) D

(2) A

(3) B

(4) A

(5) D

(6) D

Step 5. Language point

Purpose: To train Ss’ listening ability and language capacity.

1. Ask Ss to listen to the tape and follow it in a low voice.

2. Divided Ss into four groups. Each group is supposed to read through each part, and then find the following phrases.

Group one:

do one’s research

in many ways

struggle for

the past five decades

the first agricultural pioneer

makes it possible to do something

hybrid strain Group two:

graduate from

Southwest Agriculture College

devote his life to

as a young man

search for

circulating his knowledge

less developed countries

thanks to

get rid of

Group three:

be satisfied with

cares little about

lead a comfortable life

rather than

equip somebody

would rather

prefer to do something

twice as large as

Group four:

wish for things

with the hope of

cares for people

3. Ask Ss to find following sentences and try to explain them in English. Let them pay more attention to the underlined part of each sentence. (1) He wants everyone to call him a farmer, for that’s how he regards himself.

(2) In many ways, he is one of them, and he has struggled for the past five decades to help them.

(3) At that time, hunger was a serious problem in many parts of the countryside.

(4) Using his hybrid rice farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before.

(5) Wishing for things, however, costs nothing. Suggested Answers:

(1) It means he thinks of himself as a farmer but other people may think of him as a famous scientist or a rich man.

(2) It means he does not only look like a farmer but also he works in the fields with farmers. In fact, he does scientific research for them.

(3) It means that many people were very hungry and they even became ill and died because there was not enough food.

(4) It means that farmers growing his rice species are producing rice twice as much as they did in the past.

(5) It means that dreams are free and everybody can have ideas about what they would like their future life to be. Step 6. Retelling Purpose: To train Ss’ memory.

To improve Ss’ ability of retelling. 1. Encourage Ss to use some important words and phrases to retell the text.

do one’s research

in many ways

struggle for

the past five decades

the first agricultural pioneer

makes it possible to do something

hybrid strain

graduate from

Southwest Agriculture College

devote his life to

as a young man

search for

circulating his knowledge

less developed countries

thanks to

get rid of

be satisfied with

cares little about

lead a comfortable life

rather than

equip somebody

would rather

prefer to do something

twice as large as

wish for things

with the hope of

cares for people

2. Ask some Ss to present their retold story before the class. Step 7. Discussion

Ask

Ss to discuss the following questions with their partners and give their own opinion. 1. What reason made Dr Yuan want to increase the rice output when he was young? 2. How does he help rid the world of hunger? 3. Does Dr Yuan live a rich life because of his research? 4. What should we learn from Dr Yuan’s personality? Suggested Answers:

1. Dr Yuan wanted to increase the rice output because he saw many people go hungry when he

was young.

2. He helps the world get rid of hunger by producing a hybrid strain of rice which increases the harvest. 3. No, he doesn’t live a rich life, instead ,Dr Yuan is leading a simple life, doing his research, listening to his music and riding his motor-bike. 4. Dr Yuan is a simple, academic man who is more interested in helping others than being famous. We should learn from him to be unselfish. Step 8. Homework 1. Ask Ss to make sentences with the following phrases.

make it possible to do

graduate from

thanks to

be satisfied with

care about

would rather do than do

with the hope of

live a… life

devote one’s life to

twice as large as

2. Ask Ss to write a short composition about the pioneer Yuan Longping.