Learning about Language教学设计(第一课时)

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Unit2

A Pioneer for All People Knowledge Aims: 1.Learn some important words and phrases in the text

2.Train the students’ reading ability.

Ability Aims : 1. Master some important words and phrases in the text

2. Improve the students’ reading ability Emtional Aims:

1. Encourage students to study hard,and try their best to realize their dreams

2. Help the students make up their minds to make contributions to the society in the future like Dr Yuan.

Teaching Important Points 1. Master some important words and phrases in this period.

2. Help the students to understand the passage better. Teaching Difficult Points

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How to help the students improve their reading ability

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How to help the students understand the passage better Teaching Methods

1. Fast reading to summerise the main idea and get the general idea of the text.

2. Detail reading to understand the passage better.

3. Listen to the tape to answer the questions and fill in the blanks.

Teaching Aids

A tape recorder ，

a multimedia

Teaching Procedures Step1：Leading-in

Step2:Prediction

T: Today we’ll learn unit2 Working the land—Reading, now please open your books , turn to Page10,What is this passage going to talk about? (After 5 seconds )There is no need to tell me your answers. You will check it in the next step by yourself.

Step3:Skimming T: Now please skim the text quickly within five minutes. Then match the paragraphs with the main ideas. Para1

A. Dr Yuan’s dreams. Para2

B. Dr Yuan’s personality.

Para3

C. Dr Yuan’s biography.

Para4

D. Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement Step4:Fast reading

T: Read the text fast and find out the answers to the questions on the screen within five minutes. Then I’d like to ask you to answer them.

1．Yuan Longping works the land because __ .

A. he is a farmer B. he is interested in farming

C. he wants to do his research by farming

D. he has a slim and strong body

2．Which of the following statements tells the main idea of the text?

A.a farmer named Yuan Longping

B. how Yuan Longping became rich and famous C. an agricultural pioneer named Yuan Longping who worked hard to produce a new strain of rice

D. a new strain of rice which is called super hybrid rice

T: Who have found the answer to the first question?

Suggested answers:CC

Step5: Listening and reading

T:

First, let students listen to the tape one paragraph by one paragraph, and then do some exercises. Now Paragraph1, please listen carafully and pay attention to the pronunciation, then answer two questions and check the answers with the whole class.

Para1:

1. What does Dr Yuan look like? 2. What is his achievement?

T: Now who would like to answer the first question?

S1:He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim,strong body.He is more like a farmer than a scientist.

T: You are right, very good! What about the second one?

S2: He grows what is called super hybrid rice, which makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields. Thanks to his research, the UN is trying to rid the world of hunger.Using his hybrid rice farmers’ producing harvests twice as large as before.

T: Excellent. Now Paragraph2, please listen carefully and pay attention to the pronunciation, then fill the table on the screen. Then check the answers with the whole class.

Para2: Time

1930

1953

information

As a young man

In a recent harvests

now

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Suggested answers:

Time

1930

1953

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Born

Graduated from Southwest Agriculture College

Hunger was a great problem /Saw the great need for As a young man

increasing the rice output

In a recent harvests

now

Step6:Summary

200 million tons produced

Circulating his knowledge

T：please finish the summary according to the text. Yuan Longping is a great man, for he has _______ for human race for a long time. He thinks he is a farmer

as well as a scientist. He has a ______ face and arms and a ____, ____ body.

He works hard and grows super _____ rice. In 1974, he became a pioneer to grow rice that has a high ______. ____ (use) his special rice, farmers can produce harvest twice as large as before without _________ the area of the fields. Dr Yuan is now circulating his knowledge in many countries. _________ his research, Chinese have rid themselves of

hunger. ________, he is called “father of hybrid rice”.

In addition, he is _______

with his life. He doesn’t care about

_________. He ________________ keep time for swimming, listening to ______ music, playing mah-jong and reading.

Step7: Watch a video about Yuan Longping T: Do you like to enjoy a video about Yuan Longping?

Ss:Yes. T: OK. Please.(

After six

minutes)

Ok, class is over. See you next time. Ss: Goodbye,thank you.

Step8: Homework Write a short passage about Yuan Longping.(100words or so)

The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard Unit 2

Working the land

A Pioneer for All People

Picture

output sunburnt struggle crop

Boys

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super hybrid

rice strain

Girls

Record after Teaching

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