Learning about Language第一课时教学设计

l Unit 2 Working the land Learning about Language 一.Teaching aims 1.Review key words and structures in “A Pioneer for All People”; 2.Have a clear idea of the -ing form as a subject or an object.

3.Arouse students’ interest and confidence in English learning; 4.Promote their skills in using the –ing forms. 二.Key and difficult teaching points Help them to get into the habit of reviewing, thinking and using habits for English study; Enable them to use the sentences structures to make sentences. 三.Teaching aids Pictures, the projector 四.Teaching method Task-based teaching method 五.Teaching procedures: Step 1: warming up 1．Show some pictures and Chinese sentences, then ask the students to translate them by using key words; 李小冉被认为是一个优雅的女演员。(elegant) 我们政府正为了对抗饥饿和贫穷而努力奋斗。（poverty) 性侵犯是一个令人不安的话题。(sexal assault）

l 习总理经常在欠发达国家宣传他的政治理念，希望帮助世界去除对中国的误解。 我国的综合实力使我国具备能够与美国来一战。(comprehensive power) 通过记录生活的点滴，柴静让越来越多的人知道环境的重要性。（V-ing, +句子；record living details）

过一种舒服的生活对很多人意味着很多。(V-ing means a lot to) Step 2.:learning about language 1.

Lead them to complete Part 1 one by one: think out the new words or phrases according to the given information; Keys: sunburnt, rid…of, expand,circulate, would rather, struggle, export, be satisfied with, equip, crops, thanks to. 2. Lead them to complete Part 2 one by one: use the new words to replace the underlined words Keys: statistics, globe, super, nationalities,Hunger, disease,Vietnam, occupations, freedom, exported. 3.

Group w9thork: finish the part3 with group members. Step3 :grammar (the –ing form as a subject or an object) 1.

Present some sentences on the screen and ask students to find out the differences among them. 1).It's nice to help people in need. Helping people in need is nice. To help pepople

in need is nice. 2).It's not easy to grow super hybrid rice. Growing super hybrid

rice is not easy. To grow super hybrid rice is not easy. 3).It's not difficult to learn more about farming Learning about farming is not difficult. To learn about farming is not difficult.

l 2.Show some verbs which can be followed by “to do” , “doing” or “both”. Step4: homework 1.Read and memorize the reading passage; 2.Finish the corresponding practice about grammar in English Weekly.