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Unit 2

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Teaching Aims To help students read the passage Chemical or Organic Farming. To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing. Teaching Procedures I. Warming up Warming up by listening and reading aloud Language is created to be listened to and spoken first. So open your book to page 13 and read it aloud while listening to the recording. Watch your pauses between the thought groups.

II. Guided reading Reading and translating Read the text sentence by sentence, and put it into Chinese. Who will be the first to try. I will only have four of you to do this task. OK, Wang Shan. You got it, the opportunity, I mean.

Reading and underlining

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Next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework. Collocations from CHEMICALORGANIC FARMING gain a meaning, refer to…, make the soil fertile, natural waste from animals, put…in the field, make the soil rich, become healthy, develop a healthy soil, reduce diseases, grow strong and healthy, keep…free from…, leave…in the ground, as a result, get exhausted, kill bacteria and pests, insist on…, change crops, be followed by…, put…back into …, need a deeper level of soil, prefer doing sth, plant…between crops, prevent…from…, carry away…, make sure that

Doing exercises Now you are going to do exercises No. 1, 2 and 3 on page 14 following the article.

Listening

For listening turn to page 14 and then 15 for the listening exercises 1, 2 and 3.

Are you ready?

5. Reading, speaking and writing When trying to argue people into or out of doing something we may use the following expressions:

I would rather…

I’d prefer…because

Should I / we…?

This is good value because…

What is the advantage of…?

I don’t like…because…

It’s a great pity that…

It’s better to…

If I have a choice I’d choose…because

You need to…

In pairs you are to make up a dialogue to argue each other into or out adopting organic farming. I will argue with your monitor, Liang Bochao. Get started.

III. Guided writing

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Writing a poster Writing a poster which includes all the information about the uses of computer so that you will encourage more farmers to buy and use. You are asked to base your poster on the overall pattern of the article you learned Organic Farming. Limit your poster to between 200 and 250 words.

Writing a speech

Write a speech for Professor Yuan Longping. He is to attend an international conference on modern agriculture. You may also make use of the library and network resources for the task.

IV. Further applying

Finding information Read online to find as much information as possible about Professor Yuan Longping and his research group. Share your findings with you partner next time you are here.

Writing a report Go back home to interview your parents or your grandparents about China’s agriculture, its past and present situations. Write a report in English in about 500 words as a weekly project.

Acting a text play Turn either one of the two articles into a text play. Rehearse it and play it in front of the class. The play shall last at least 10 minutes. IV. Closing down Closing down by filling a form To end the period, please fill in the form below.

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Methods of organic farming 1.

Farmers use natural waste from animals. 2.

Farmers often change the kind of crop in each field every few years. 3.

Farmers plant crops with different lengths of roots. 4.

Farmers sometimes plant grass between crops and leave it in the ground.

Closing down by imaging Imagine and write about what the agriculture will be like 50 years from now in the future. Use your imagination to compete for “wild thinking prize”.

Advantages of methods 1.

This makes the soil richer in minerals and so more fertile. 2.

Changing the crops renews the minerals in the soil and helps it become rich and healthy. 3.

This uses different levels of soil. 4.

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