Learning about Language教案评析

Unit 2 Working the Land Teaching Aims: 1. Enable the students to get some information of Yuan Longping and his great achievements; 2. Help the students to form good reading habits and master some key reading skills; 3. Ask the students to form the spirit of interaction and cooperation. Teaching important and difficult points: 1. Help the students to master some reading skills; 2. How to enable the students to learn about more information; 3. Encourage the students to discuss and read actively. Teaching methods: 1. Discussion and cooperation; 2. Task-based learning；3. Pair-work and group-work Teaching aids: 1. Courseware；

2. Pictures;

3. Blackboard. Teaching procedures: Step 1: Greetings and leading-in: Ask students to look at the some pictures and learn about the main topic of this unit. Use the poem“ The Peasant’s lot”《悯农》

to show the hard work of farmers. Tell the Ss to cherish the food. Step 2 Reading and Comprehending:

1. What is the passage about? It’s about A Pioneer for all People—Yuan Longping. 2. Skimming Match the following headings(标题）to each paragraph.(连线) First ask the Ss to do it individually and then do pair work to discuss. Then ask some Ss to share their opinions. 3. Careful reading (1).Personal information First ask the Ss to do it individually, then do group-work to discuss and ask some Ss to write their answers on the blackboard, and discuss together. (2). Put the following sentences in right order.

a. He was born into a poor farmer’s family .

b. He graduated from Southwest Agriculture college.

c. Chinese farmers

produced fifty million tons of rice.

d. He became the first agricultural pioneer

e. He searched for a way to increase rice outputs without expanding the area of fields.

f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries. First ask the Ss to find the sentences in the passage and put down their time, then compare them and get the right answer.

a c b e d f

(3) .Dr Yuan’s personality

What is Yuan Longping’s attitude towards money?

A. The more, the better;

B. Too much will cause a lot of troubles;

C. Money is of no use. Which of the following description about Dr Yuan’s personality is not true? 1. He is satisfied with his life because he is now rich and famous. A.

He cares little about money and fame. B.

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

He enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people. (4). Dr Yuan’s Dreams

a.To produce a kind of rice that could feed more people; b. To export his rice so that it can be grown all over the world. Step 3 Talk bar：

What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? If that happened, people there would suffer from starvation and the whole country would get into trouble. Discussion：What is happening to these people? Do you want to end the famine(饥荒)in the world ?If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do ?

The measures taken to deal with hunger. Invent a new kind of plant to produce more food. Find a sort of fertilizer to give rice enough nutrition. Stop the pollution to the environment and protect the soil in the field. Step 4 Summary and Homework Suppose you were Yuan Longping introduce yourself (less than 150 words).

, please write a short passage to