Learning about Language教案2

Unit 2 Working the land

Teaching aims: 1. Target Language a.Words and phrases sunburn, struggle, super, expand, circulate, equip, export,

rid ... of, be satisfied with, lead a ... life, search for, would rather, thanks to, with the hope of, rather than

b. Important sentences This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields. P10 He cares little about spending the money on himself or leading a comfortable life. P10 2. Ability goals

Enable Ss to learn more about agriculture, countryside and farming. By talking they can exchange their experience with each other. By reading they will realize the role that agriculture plays in human life. In fact this world faces a serious problem—starvation. So after reading the passage about Dr Yuan students will know the importance of his achievement to man. Of course they will learn from Dr Yuan some noble character. 3. Learning ability goals

Teaching important points

Grasp the usage of some words and expressions. Teaching difficult points

a. How to help students learn more about agriculture. b. Help students really master the usage of words and expressions. Teaching methods

Talking, questioning-and-answering activity and reading. Teaching aids

A tape recorder, a projector and a computer. Teaching procedures && ways The first period

Learning about Language Step 1.Greeting and Revision 1.

Greet the students as normal. 2.

Revise the warming up with the following question How do you think to grow our main food--rice? -----1)First, the farmers plow the field. They have to make the soil loose enough to plant crops. 2)Second,grow some young plants

3)Third, they insert the young plants into the loose field. 4)At last ,they will get the harvest Step 2 Reading New Words and Expressions Read after the tape Read together

Step 3 Language Poits

1. work vt. 耕种(土地); 使工作; 开动; 创造(奇迹);

经营(工厂、农场等) vi. 工作; (机器等)开动; (办法、计划等)行得通

work the land=grow crops on it

耕耘土地

He works a big farm. 他经营着一个大的农场。

They are working the land together. I don’t think that your suggestion will work. 2. …whom he has struggled for the past 50

decades.

struggle

v.

“斗争; 拼搏; 努力”

e.g. He has struggled with sickness for a

few months. 数月来他一直在与疾病作斗争。

They were poor and had to struggle for

a living.

他们很穷, 必须为生活而努力。

He struggled with the thief.

他同小偷进行了搏斗。

He struggled to control his temper.

他努力控制住自己的脾气。

1) struggle 还可用作名词, 表示“奋斗; 努力”等。

e.g. In 1862 the American slaves won their

struggle for freedom. 1862年美国黑奴赢得了

为自由而进行的斗争的胜利。

2)常见搭配: struggle for

为……而斗争

struggle against

向……做斗争; 同……搏斗

struggle on

拼命活下去; 继续努力

struggle to one’s feet

挣扎着站起来

3. This special strain of rice makes it possible

to produce one-third more of the crop in the

same fields. 这种特殊的稻种使得同样的田地多收获三分

之一的产量。

it 在句中作形式宾语, 真正的宾语为

to

produce…, 结构为: 动词(make, feel, think,

regard…)+it +adj+ to do.

e.g. We think it important to learn English well. 4. Born in a poor farmer’s family in 1931, Dr.

Yuan graduate from Southwest Agriculture

College in 1953.

袁博士1931年出身于一个贫苦农民的家庭,

1953年毕业于西南农学院。

graduate n. 毕业生

undergraduate

本科毕业生

post-graduate

硕士毕业生, 研究生

5. Dr. Yuan searched for a way to increase rice

harvests without expanding the area of fields. 袁博士寻求一种在不扩大种植面积的情况下

提高水稻产量的方法。

1)search 强调搜查, 一般表示目标明确范围较小。

search sb. 搜身;

search some place. 搜查某地

search for 强调寻找, 一般表示范围较大。

search for sb 寻找某人

The police searched the woods for the lost child. Scientists are still searching for a cure to the

common cold. ) expand v. 使变大; 伸展

如: The population of China expanded

quickly in the 1960s. You can expand your knowledge by

reading more books. expansion n.

expandable adj. 6. circulate v. 循环, 交流

circulation n. e.g. Rumors circulated quickly. The blood circulates around the body. 7. Thanks to his research, the UN has

more tools in the battle to rid the

world of hunger. 1) thanks to: 幸亏/由于

Thanks to your help, I passed the exam. 2) rid …

of 意为“(使)摆脱, (使)除掉”,

rid (rid/ridded, rid, ridding)

v.

如：

She is trying to rid herself of a dependence

on drugs. You should rid yourself of the bad habits. = You should get rid of the bad habits.

[拓展] rid 还可用作形容词, 构成get/be rid of, 意为“丢弃, 扔掉; 摆脱, 除去”。如：

Let’s get rid of this old furniture. We will be glad to get rid of him.

8. Using his hybrid rice farmers are producing

harvests twice as large as before. 用他的杂交水稻种子, 农民们种出比以前多

一倍的粮食。

倍数词

(twice/half/three times/a quarter etc.) +as + 形容词原级

+as …表示“是……的多少

倍”。

e.g. The number of the students in our school

is ______________________ in their school. 我们学校学生的数量是他们学校的两倍。

英语中的倍数表达法共有三种形式: (1) 倍数

+ 形容词/副词的比较级

+ than... (2) 倍数

+ as +形容词/副词的原级

+ as... (3) 倍数

+ the + 名词+ of...

This building is five times higher than that one.

这座楼比那座楼高出五倍。

This building is five times as high as that one.

这座楼是那座楼的五倍高。

Step 4 Exercise Find 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

Complete the passage with the words

below in their proper forms.

disturbing

expand

output

struggle

battles

grain

crops 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,

decade

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

great war against the __________ growth

of the desert.

Step 5 Homework