Learning about Language第一课时导学案

Learning about Language Teaching goals

1. Target language

disturbing, expand, output, struggle, battles, grain, crops, decade, equip 2. Ability goals Enable Ss to master the use of the vocabulary and expressions. 3. Learning ability goals

Help Ss learn how to enlarge the words and structures. Teaching important and difficult points How to grasp the words and phrases and be able to use them freely. Teaching methods

Show questions and finish all the tasks. Teaching procedures & ways

StepⅠFind the word or phrase from the text for each of these meanings. 1. brown (skin) from spending too much time in the sun 2. to make something or somebody free of 3. to become larger in size, number or amount 4. to make information and ideas known to many people 5. would prefer to 6. to try extremely hard to achieve something 7. to send things to foreign countries for sale 8. pleased by having what one wants or needs 9. to provide with things necessary for a certain purpose 10. plants grown in large amounts by farmers 11. because of

Keys: sunburnt, rid…of, expand, circulate, would rather, struggle, export, satisfied with, equip, crop, thanks to StepⅡFind 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.

Keys: statistics, globe

super, nationalities

Hunger, disease

Vietnam, occupations

freedom, exported Step Ⅲ

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.

Keys: decade, struggle, expanding, Equipped, output, grain, crops, battles, disturbing