Learning about Language第一课时评课稿

Unit 2 WORKING THE LAND Learning about language 一 Teaching Aims: 1. Train students’ reading skills through skimming and scanning. 2. Get students aware of the serious problem in agriculture. 3. Get students to know about Yuan Long ping and his super hybrid rice, thus leading students to understand the importance of his research and what he has been doing for mankind. 4. By comparing the two persons, students learn to grasp the details and draw their conclusions. 5. Through discussion, students are aware of some practical problems in farming. 6. Get students to notice and learn some useful phrases. Teaching Important Points: Improve students’ reading ability and help them understand the passage better. Teaching Difficult Points: 1. How to find information with the help of some key words. 2. How to put what students have learned into practice. 二 Teaching Methods 1. Brainstorm before reading to cause students to think about the problem existing in farming and give their suggestions.

2. Skimming and scanning to understand the passage and find some facts. 3. Evaluation to help students to use what they’ve learned to make a comment. 4. Discussions in the form of group work to urge students to find information and draw a conclusion, and to express their own ideas. 三 Teaching Aids: 1. a computer 2. a blackboard Teaching Procedures: Step 1. Lead-in Greet students and introduce myself and my hometown- Zhoushan and show students some interesting places of Zhoushan. (T: Zhoushan is an island city with many small islands. Let me take you to make a picture trip. …If you plan to pay a visit, you’ll enjoy yourselves, I’m sure.)

Step 2. Brainstorm Let Students compare three groups of pictures and tell the problem teacher is worried about, then ask students for suggestions to solve the problem. (T: Great changes have taken place in my hometown, but now I get worried. There’s a problem. Have you noticed the problem? Can you guess what I’m worried about?-More and more farmland has been used for buildings, but not for farming.)

(T: We should produce more crops in the same fields. Maybe we can plant some special rice-super hybrid rice.) Question 1) Who’s famous for doing research in super hybrid rice in China? Yuan Longping. Ask students to look at the portrait of Yuan Longping and express their impression of him. Question 2) What’s your first impression of him? (He looks like a farmer.) Question 3) What causes you to think that he looks like a farmer? His sunburnt face, arms and slim, strong body. Question 4) What do you know about him? Students say something about Yuan Longping if they can. Step 3. Reading Activity 1 Get students to read the passage quickly and do “True

or False” exercise.

1. Dr Yuan’s kind of rice is the most suitable for China’s farmland. (T) 2. Dr Yuan would rather work than relax. (T) 3. Dr Yuan enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people. (T) 4. Last year Chinese farmers produced five times as much rice as they did in 1950. (F) (four times) 5. Yuan is now circulating his knowledge in developed countries. (F) (less developed)

6. Dr Yuan enjoys swimming and reading as well as playing the violin in his spare time. (F) (He no longer plays the violin now.) 7. Dr Yuan has dreams when he is asleep and also when he is awake. (T) Activity 2 Get students to read the passage again and know the facts about Dr Yuan Longping and his hybrid rice to complete the forms. (1)

facts about Yuan Longping: birth in Beijing in 1930；

education graduate from Southwest Agriculture College in 1953；

personality ：regard himself as a farmer; care little about spending money on himself and being famous; (2)

hobby play the violin , play mah-jong, swim and read (3)

ideal(dream) export his rice to be grown all over the world (4)

facts about Yuan’s super hybrid rice

capacity produce 1/3 more of the crop in the same fields; more than 60% of the rice in China from this hybrid strain application besides China, knowledge being circulated in India, Vietnam and other less developed countries to increase their rice harvest contribution rice harvests being produced twice as large; 22% of people fed from just 7% of the farmland in China. Step 4 Evaluation Question: What kind of person is Dr Yuan Longping in your mind ?

(Possible words to describe Dr. Yuan: intelligent, confident, unselfish, modest, energetic, determined, active, hard-working…)

Step 5 Discussion Activity 1 Compare Dr Yuan Longping and Jane Goodall and find their similarities and differences . (Students have a discussion in groups of four and every member is offered a chance to express what he/she gets.) (Suggested answers: Similarities: 1. They spend their lifetime on their researches. 2. They make great contributions to mankind and the whole world. 3. They have their dreams and make great efforts to make them true. 4. They both lead a busy life. 5. They love their work with their pure love. 6. They’re selfless and seldom think of themselves. 7. During the work, they never give up but just keep on, so they’re determined. . . .

Differences: 1. They have been doing their researches in different fields. 2. They have different ways of working. 3. Their receiving education is different. 4. The difficulty in working is different for different sexes. 5. They two got different results of researches. 6. They hold their different dreams.) . . .

Step 6 Homework Students are required to write a composition about a great or famous person with the help of some websites.