Learning about Language优质课教案

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 Longping 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. 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. Teaching Aids: 1. a computer 2. a blackboard Teaching Procedures: Step 1. Lead-in Step 2. Brainstorm Let Students do the exercise on page12. Step 3.

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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

Step 4 Evaluation Step 5 Discussion

Activity 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.) . . .