Learning about Language教学设计及教案分析

Book 4 unit2 working the land

教学设计

warming up and reading Teaching goals

1.Enable Ss to learn more about agriculture, countryside and farming. 2.Help Ss learn how to describe Dr Yuan Longping including his personality. Teaching important and difficult points 1. Help to comprehend the text and grasp the main idea of the text. 2. Grasp the usage of some words and expressions. 3. How to help students learn more about agriculture. Teaching methods

Talking, questioning-and-answering activity and reading. Teaching procedures:

step1 warming up

1.enjoy a poem 2.show the students some pictures and ask questions below Do you know these grains Are you from a farmer’s family? Do you know something about farming?

Have you ever grown any plants?

Do you know how to plant them? When we speak of farming, what words can we think of? step 2 Reading

1.pre-reading a.Questions What is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries? What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? How to solve hunger?

b.guess who is the farmer? 2.Fast reading a.Find out the main idea of each paragraph.

Para 1

A. Dr Yuan’s dreams.

Para 2

B. Dr Yuan’s personality.

Para 3

C. Dr Yuan’s biography.

Para 4

D. Dr Yuan’s appearance

and his achievement.

b.main idea of the text The text is about _______________ who made a great contribution to producing better _____. 3.Careful reading

para.1 questions (1). What does Dr. Yuan look like? (2).What’s his achievement?

para.2 His biography

Time & Events Yuan Longping was born in Beijing. 1930

1950

Chinese farmers produced about fifty million tons of rice 1953

Yuan graduated from Southwest Agriculture College. Yuan became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow 1973

rice that has a high output. Nearly two hundred million tons of rice was produced recently

Yuan is circulating his knowledge in India, Vietnam and other Now

less developed countries. para.3 a.Hobbies b.Use a few words to describe Dr Yuan successful, helpful, hard-working, modest, determined, make great achievement, not care about money and reputation

para.4 Dr Yuan has dreams when he is

asleep and Dr Yuan has dreams when he is awake. Describe the rice in his dream. •

As tall as sorghum

•

As big as corn •

As huge as a peanut dreams when he is awake With the hope of producing a kind

of rice that could feed more people To export his rice so that it can be grown all over the world 4.Post reading a.Listen to the tape carefully then do the T/F questions. 1. Dr Yuan is more a scientist

than a farmer.

2. Dr Yuan’s kind of rice is the most suitable for China’s farmland.

3. Dr Yuan would rather work than relax.

4. Dr Yuan enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people. b.Questions 1.

Why did Dr. Yuan want to increase the rice output when he was young? 2.

How does he help rid the world of hunger? step 3 Group work Writing a poster

for the text. step4.Homework 1. Read the text aloud after class. 2. Retell the text according to time line after class. 3. Find the difficult sentences.