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Period 2

Learning about Language

Teaching Important Points

Learn how to use the -ing form as a noun.

Teaching Difficult Points

Learn to use the -ing form as a subject as well as an object.

Teaching Aids

A multi-media computer

A blackboard

Teaching Procedures

Step 1 Revision

1.Greetings.

2.Ask the students to use the first person to retell the passage about Dr Yuan,and ask them to try to use the proper conjunctions.

Step 2 Useful words and expressions

T:From the reading part,we can find some useful words and expressions.So now please find the words and expressions that means the same from the text.(Ex.1 on Page 11)

After two minutes,the teacher begins to check the answers and give the right answers:

Suggested answers:

1.sunburnt

2.hunger

3.rid...of

4.expand

5.circulate

6.lead a...life

7.would rather

8.thanks to

9.struggle

10.export

T:Now Let’s come to Ex.2.Please complete the passage with words and expressions from the previous sections,then I’ll ask you to give me the answers sentence by sentence.

After several minutes,the teacher ask the students to give their answers.

Suggested answers:

1.prove

2.would rather

3.live a

4.life

5.rid

6.of

7.output

8.increased

9.sunburnt

T:How about Ex.3,have you found the answers?I’d like to ask some of you to read the sentences and then give me the answers.

Suggested answers:

1.super

2.satisfied

3.strain

4.exported

5.suitable

Step 3 Discovering useful structures

T:Let’s come to discovering useful structures,at first let’s finish the exercises in this part.Do you know what does “ even a poor person can have a wish” mean?

S:It means “Wishing for things costs nothing.”

T:Very good!Now please rewrite the sentences in Ex.2 on Page 12.

After five minutes,the teacher checks the answers.(Ss answer the questions one by one.)

Suggested answers:

1.Helping people in need of help is nice.

2.Growing hybrid rice isn’t easy.

3.Learning more about farming isn’t difficult.

4.Doing research in the countryside isn’t easy.

5.Getting rid of hunger is very important in some African countries.

6.Explaining this again is important or we will get confused.

T:Do you think it’s very easy to learn about the -ing form as the subject?But how about the -ing form as the object?Now I’d like to check the answers of Ex.3 on Page 12.

(Ss give the answers one by one.)

Suggested answers:

1.Dr Yuan likes talking to rice growers about his work.

2.He continued doing research until a better strain of rice was found.

3.Many city kids look forward to visiting the countryside.

4.Not all students enjoy working in the fields.

5.They started producing hybrid rice in 1974.

6.I remember meeting the scientist while he was in Beijing last time.

Step 4

Summary

Step 5 Homework

1.Finish the related exercises on Workbook.

2.Finish the exercises about the -ing form as the subject and object.