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Unit2 Working the land Vocabulary and Useful Expressions Step1.重点难点

1. In many ways, he is one of them, and he struggled for the past five decades to help them.

In a way; in one way; in some ways 在某种程度上

2．However, he cares little about spending the money on himself or leading a comfortable life.

care v. 在乎,在意，喜欢，有兴趣

spend sth. … on … 在某方面花费

spend … (in) doing sth. 花费…做某事

3．Wishing for nothing, however, costs nothing.

wishing for nothing 动名词短语做主语，谓语动词用单数。however是插入语，表示语气的一种转折。

4．It also refers to crops growing with natural rather than chemical fertilizers.

refer to 与…有关，关系到某人、某事；提到，涉及；参考

5．Instead, organic farmers insist on changing crops every two or three years.

insist on 坚持要求；insist后面可以跟从句，其中谓语动词常用should + 动词原形构成

6．Dr. Yuan awoke from his dream with the hope of producing a kind of rice that could fees more people.

with the hope of 带着某种希望 7．He used to walk to his fields twice a day, but now he prefers to ride his motorcycle.

used to 过去常常（现在已经不是如此）

be used to doing 意思是“习惯于”

prefer to do (rather than do) 相比之下更喜欢做某事

8．But whatever they grow they make sure that what is left in the ground after harvesting becomes a natural fertilizer for the next year’s crop.

whatever引导让步状语从句，表示“无论怎样”，相当于no matter what.

Eg: Whatever you do, don’t give up.

Step 2．功能句型

建议（Suggestion & advice）

I would rather … I don’t like … because …

I’d prefer … because … It’s a great pity that …

Should we/I …? It’s better to …

If I have a choice I’d choose … because … You need to …

May I suggest …? Let me suggest … because …

Perhaps we should suggest … because … But what/how about …?

Step 3. 重点单词及短语

单词

① hunger n. 饥饿，食欲；v. 渴望得到某事物，某人

hunger for/after sth./sb.

② struggle vi.

stuggle with sb. 与某人争斗，搏斗

struggle (against/with sb./sth.)

struggle against/with sb./sth. (for sth.) 争斗，拼搏，奋斗，努力

③ expand vi. (使某事物)变大，增强，伸展，张开

expand on sth. 阐述或详述

expansion n. 扩大，扩展，膨胀

④ equip vt.

equip sb./sth. (with sth.) 配备，装备

equipment n. 设备，装备

⑤ export vt. 输出；n. 出口业，出口品

import vt. 进口

⑥ circulate vi. vt. 使某物循环，流通，传播；vt. 发侧知告知某人

circulation n. 循环，流传，传播

⑦ confuse vt. 把某人弄糊涂，使为难，打乱

confusion n. 混乱，混淆

⑧ reduce vt. 缩减，减小，降低

reduction n. 减少，缩小

⑨ supply vt. 供给，供应，满足；n. 供应，供给之物

⑩ exchange vt. 交换，交易；n. 交换，更换，互访，交流

exhange sth. with sth.

exchangeable adj. 可交换的，可退换的，可兑换的

短语

rid … of 清除，摆脱

be satisfied with = be contented 感到满足，满意的

would rather do sth. 宁可做某事

refer to 与…有关，关系到某人，某事，提到，参考

search for 寻找，搜寻

thanks to 多亏，由于

rather than 而不，宁愿…而不

Unit2 Working the land Warming Up, Pre-reading and Reading Period 1 Warming up and pre-reading.

Step 1 Lead-in.

Poem By Li Shen

Farmers weeding at noon,Sweat down the field soon.

Who knows food on a tray,Due to their toiling day.

Then let one student recite the poem in Chinese. Step 2 Warming up by questioning Hello, everyone. We shall read about man who works the land today. Have you ever grown any plants? If not, what kind of plant would you like to grow? How will you grow it? (For reference: Mr. Li, I worked with my father in the rice field last year. We grow hybrid rice and use animal wastes to make the soil rich.) Has anyone of you ever been to the countryside? What did you do there? (For reference: I went to Chuankou the day before yesterday. It is a small mountain village 75 li north of Beijing. I went there to visit my uncle’s family. I like that small beautiful village very much. ) Who are from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming?

Step 3 Pre-reading and talking

Questioning and answering Rice is main food in South China. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? (For reference: Then the south people would have to change their eating habit. They could turn to potatoes, wheat flour, cow and sheep cheese, cabbage, onions and garlic for food. They are the bases of the traditional food in North China. ) If you had the chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world, what would you do?

(For reference: I would try to end hunger by popularizing the advanced farming

techniques. Modern techniques could be introduced to increase the rice output, and expand the area of fields.)

Giving background information about Professor Yuan Longping Have you ever heard of a man called Professor Yuan Longping? Would anyone of you tell the class something about him? (For reference: Professor Yuan Longping is a Chinese agricultural scientist. Professor Yuan's breakthrough scientific achievement led to the world's first successful and widely grown hybrid rice varieties, revolutionizing rice cultivation in China and tripling production over a generation. His approach to rice breeding then spread internationally throughout Asia and to Africa and the Americas, providing food for tens of millions and leading to his becoming known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice." Step 4. Reading Reading aloud to the recording Comprehension—understanding what you are reading—is important. To read in thought groups is an easy, yet effective, way of improving reading comprehension. Now turn to page 9 and read aloud to the recording of the text A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE. Pay attention to the thought groups in the sentences while listening and reading aloud.

A brief introduction:

Yuan Longping is known as China’s “father of hybrid rice”. It’s said that in China, we eat depending on “Two Ping” ---- Deng Xiaoping, who made the policy of System of Production

Responsibility, & Yuan Longping, who invented hybrid rice.

Yuan Longping, who was born in September, 1930, graduated from Agriculture Department in Southwest Agricultural Institute. He has been working on agriculture education & the research into hybrid rice since he left the institute.

In the 1960s, when China was suffering from serious famine, he came up with the idea of hybrid rice, which has a high yield ( or output). Ten years later, he succeeded in inventing a new species that produced a 20 percent higher yield than common types of rice.

Yuan devoted himself to the research into agriculture, & was honored by UNESCO & FAO(联合国教科文组织）. Although he is 74 years old, he is still working on the research into agriculture.

Period 2

Reading Step 1 Lead-in。

. Listen to the tape carefully then answer these questions.

1）When and who did become the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output?

2）What did Yuan Longping invent?

Step2.

Read the passage once again,then find out these sentences true or false.

1）

Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist.

2 ）Dr Yuan’s kind of rice is the most suitable for China’s farmland.

3）

Dr Yuan would rather work than relax.

4 ）Dr Yuan has dreams when he is asleep and also when he is awake.

5 ）Dr Yuan enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people.

Step3.

Find out the topic sentences of each paragraph

Para. 1: He became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output.

Para.2:He has devoted his life to finding ways to grow more and more rice..

Para.3:He cares little about spending the money on himself and would rather keep time for his hobbies.

Para.4 Dr. Yuan’s dreams.

Step4.

Write down Yuan Longping’s personal information

In pairs, read the text, find information to complete the following form.

Facts about Yuan Longping Facts about Yuan’s super hybrid rice age education major hobby ideal

capacity application

contribution

overseas future

Step 5

Language points:

1. Struggle for…为争取……而斗争

Struggle against…为反对……而斗争

Struggle with… 与……争斗

1）The swimmer struggled against the tide.

2）We had to struggle with/against all kinds of difficulties.

3）The slaves struggled for the freedom

2. 使做…成为… make +it +adj./n. +to do

好天气使游泳成为可能

The fine weather makes it possible( for us )to swim.

他将每早跑步做为一个规则

He makes it a rule to run every morning.

其他可用这种结构的词:

feel, find, think, consider…

3.搜查,搜索

search (sb. / sth.) for …

He searched all the rooms for the missing person.

They searched the man all over for money.

4.由于,多亏

thanks to 相当于

because of

5.是从前两倍那么多

twice as large as before

相当于once larger than before

6.对……感到满意

be satisfied with…相当于

be pleased with

adj. satisfactory/satisfying

n. satisfaction

7.在乎，在意

care about

比较

care for

My aunt cared for me when my parents were away last week.

Dr Yuan never cares about money and fame.

8. Indeed, his sunburn face and arms and his slim, strong body are like those of millions of other Chinese farmers.

e.g: The streets in Beijing are wider than those in my hometown.

The number of students in our school is larger than that in their school.

9. Dr Yuan grows what is called super hybrid rice.

e.g: He came to what is called America.

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

e.g: That made it possible for life to begin to develop.

The development of science makes it possible for us to know more about the universe.

11. Dr Yuan awoke from his dream with the hope of producing a kind of rice (that could feed more people).

e.g: He went to the U.S with the hope of finding a better job there.

Step 6

Closing down by having a dictation

To end the period you will take a dictation. It is about Yuan Longping, “Father of Super hybrid rice”.

Yuan Longping, China's Most Famous "Farmer" Yuan came up with the idea of hybridizing rice for the first time in the world in 1960s.

Since then, 50 percent of China's total rice cultivation fields have grown such rice, which added

some 300 billion kilograms to the country's grain output. Furrows grown on his sunburnt face, a slim figure and coiled-up trousers legs would confuse foreign reporters who came to interview the most famous scientist in China, who would rather be called “a farmer”. Indeed, like many Chinese

farmers, Yuan in his 70s and has

devoted most of his life growing rice in paddy fields, but unlike those farmers, he reaps the seed from experimental fields only for hybridizing rice.

Unit2 Working the land Listening, Speaking and Writing Learning Aims To help students read the passage Organic Farming. To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing. Procedures I．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 1.

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.

.Reading and underlining

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 text 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

2.

Doing exercises

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

3.

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

1.

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.

2.

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. What is organic farming? definition

characteristics

potentials

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”.