Learning about Language教学设计第一课时

Module 4

Unit2 working the land – learning about language教学设计

语言学习这一部分是对本单元话题的理解与应用，语言学习分为词汇学习和语法学习两部分。词汇学习部分的练习与阅读课文紧密相连，做习题一时，让学生独立完成，然后小组核对，加深印象。对于语法练习，在文中找出相应句子，利用例子分析，掌握动名词做主语，并加以练习。

教学目标分析：掌握重点单词及动名词用法,讲练结合，教师通过“导”启发学生积极主动参与教学活动。通过例子，理解动名词。用课文实例归纳总结动名词。最后，通过练习掌握该语法。由浅入深，构建知识框架；本着以学生为主体的授课理念，让学生们在学习过程中感受知识间的联系与自主学习获得成功的喜悦。培养学生运用所学知识的能力。

教学重难点：掌握本单元重点词的理解与运用。掌握动名词用法。2）教学难点：动名词作主语，谓语动词；常加动名词作宾语的动词。

练习一

搭配词与词意。设计意图：掌握单词，提高英语理解。

1.brown (skin) from spending too much time in the sun 2. to become larger in size, number or amount 3. to make information and ideas known to many people 4. would prefer to 5. to try extremely hard to achieve something 6. to send things to foreign countries for sale 7. pleased by having what one wants or needs 8. to provide with things necessary for a certain purpose 9. plant grown in large amounts by farmers 10. because of 练习二Find words from the previous pages of this unit to replace the underlined words. You may need to change the words’ forms to fit.

1. According to the WHO’s information, about 1.8 million people across the world die each year from diseases caused by unsafe food and water.

2. Different kinds of strong corn, another hybrid grain, has been developed by scientists of many different races.

3. Not having enough food leads to poor health and, therefore, sickness.

4. Over 56 percent of the people in a small Southeast Asian country are in jobs related to agriculture.

5. With the open conditions in today’s international business world, hybrid grains can be sold and sent abroad to countries around the world .练习三单词练习：

（1) Complete the passage with the words below in their proper forms.

disturbing

expand

output

struggle battles

grain

crops

decade

equip

In the past _______, some of the farmers in the west of China have met with some success in the _______ against the __________desert.

_________ with new scientific farming methods, they have been able to use less farmland than in the past. Their _______ of _____ and other _______, however, is still the same, which makes it possible for them to use the remaining farmland for planting trees. These and other farmers are starting to win small _______ in the treat war against the

_________ growth of the desert. (2)

整体第二次呈现，掌握重点单词. In the past _______, some of the farmers in the west of China have met with some success in the _______ against the __________desert. _________ with new scientific farming methods, they have been able to use less farmland than in the past. Their _______ of _____ and other _______, however, is still the same, which makes it possible for them to use the remaining farmland for planting trees. These and other farmers are starting to win small _______ in the treat war against the _________ growth of the desert. 步骤二：语法学习部分（gerund）

1.Find and underline the sentences in the text use –ing 1) Since then , _______（find）ways to grow more rice has been his life goal. 2 )____(spend) money on himself or___(lead) a comfortable life also means very little to him. 3)He enjoys ___(listen) to violion music ,____(play) mah-jong, _____（swim)and ____(read). 4) As a young man , he saw the great need for __________(increase) the rice output.

5)Yuan awoke from his dream with the hope of __________(produce)

a kind of rice that

could feed more people. 6)Yuan searched for a way to incease riceharvest without___________(expand) the area of the field. 2.

Rewrite the following sentences using –ing:

1.

:

It is nice to help people in need ---Helping people in need is nice

--------- 1）It is not easy to grow super hybrid rice.Growing super hybrid rice is not easy. 2）It is important to explain this again or we will confuse the students. Explaining this again is important or we will confuse the students. 3）In the countryside it is not as easy to doresearch as in the city .

Doing research in the countryside is not as easy as in the city. 2.

tell the verbs, which plus to do, which plus doing. 3.Doing exercises using gerund or infinitive 1) It was good ________(see) the young man working with his father in the field.

2 )Paul clearly enjoyed ________(learn)about how to farm well.

3 ) When I talked to him, he told me he dreamed of ______(have )his own farm.

4 )He wanted _________(experiment) withscientific methods of farming. 5 ) He will keep ________(try out ) newideas so he can help farmers. 6 ) I am quite interested _______

(find out)What will happen to Paul's farm. 7 )Someday,he hope _______

(develop) super wheat,like Yuan's super rice.