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Teaching Plan 北流市第二中学 何沃尚 2018/7/14 课题：Book4 Unit2 Working the land 课型：Learning about language 课时分析

This period is about the usage of the useful words, expressions and structures learnt in the reading part. By completing a series of tasks in this period, students can have a good knowledge of what they learnt in the reading part, and get familiar with the grammar about the –ing form as the subject or the object. 教学目标

1 Enable students to discover and learn to use some useful words and expressions. 2 Enable students to discover and learn to use some useful structures. 3 Enable students to learn about the –ing form as the subject or the object. 重难点

1 How to help students use some useful words and expressions correctly. 2 How to help students master the usage of the grammar about the –ing

form as the subject or the object. 教学方法

1 Asking and answering activities to check students’

answers of the exercises.

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2 Individual, pair or group work. 教学准备

A projector and a computer 教学过程

Step 1 Revision 1 Greetings 2 Ask the students to use the First Person to retell the passage about Yuan Longping, and ask them to try to use the proper conjunctions. Step 2 Discovering useful words and expressions T: Find the word or phrase from the text for each of the meanings. ( Ex1 on Page 12) (Individual work) After three minutes, the teacher begins to check the answers and show the right answers. Suggested answers: 1 sunburnt 2 rid …

of 3 expand 4 circulate 5 would rather 6 struggle 7 export 8 be satisfied with 9 equip 10 crop 11 thanks to T: Now let’s come to Ex2. Work in pairs to complete this task. Five minutes. After 5 minutes, the teacher asks the students to share the answers and corrects the wrong information together when necessary. Suggested answers: 1 statistics; globe 2 super; nationalities 3 Hunger; disease

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4 Vietnam; occupations 5 freedom; exported. T: Well done. All of you did a good job. Now let’s finish Ex3. 3 minutes. Individual work. An English dictionary is a good helper when you do the task. Check the answers and read aloud the passage at last. Suggested answers: decade; struggle; expanding; Equipped; output; grain; crops; battles; disturbing Step 3 Discovering useful structures T: Let’s come to “Discovering useful structures”. At first, let’s finish the exercises in this part.

Suggested answers of Ex2: 1 Helping people in need of help is nice. 2 Growing super hybrid rice is not easy. 3 Learning more about farming is not difficult. 4 Doing research in the countryside is not easy as in the city. 5 Getting rid of hunger is very important for some African countries. 6 Explaining this again is important or we will confuse the students.

T: Do you think it’s very easy to learn about the –ing form as the subject? The answer is YES! How about the –ing form as the object? Now I would like to check the answers of Ex3 on Page 13. Suggested answers: Verbs followed by to do: promise; fail; hope; afford; plan

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Verbs followed by doing: enjoy; finish; mind; miss; keep Verbs can be followed by both to do and doing as the object, and they are not the same meaning: try; stop; forget; remember; regret Step 4 Summary: 1 动名词作主语往往表示经常性、习惯性的动作；而不定式做主语往往表示具体的、特别是将来的动作。

2 动名词和不定式在英美国家的表达习惯中也可以作宾语。

3 注意区分动名词和不定式同作主语和宾语时在表意上存在的异同。

Step 5 Finish Ex4 on Page13 to consolidate what we have learnt about –ing form as the subject and the object. Suggested answers: 1 to see 2 learning 3 having 4 to experiment 5 trying out 6 to find out 7 to develop 8 to fail 9 owning 10 sending Step 6 Homework Prepare for “Using Language”.

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