Learning about Language课堂实录

必修4 Unit 2

Working the land教学设计

必修4 Unit 2 Working the land 一、课标内容

1、学会用英语提出忠告与建议。表达建议(Suggestions＆advice)的句型有：

I would rather .... I don't like ... I'd prefer ...because ....It's a great pity that .... It's better to .... You need to ....Should I / we ...?

May I suggest ...?

But 语言技能

what / how about ...?

If I have a choice I'd choose ... because ....

2、在大致了解农业发展的基础上，通读A pioneer for all people 这段语言材料，并进行全面整体理解，引发思考，达到强化语言意识、积累语言经验的目的。3、学会用英语制作海报和广告，从而提高英语写作能力。

1、了解现代农业的概况。2、学习本单元新出现的28个单词（hunger sunburn sunburnt struggle super output expand circulate satisfied equip freedom violin motorcycle grain export suitable chemical confuse mineral reduce supply 语言知识

bacteria

pest level whatever summary exchange nutrition certain）及5条短语（rid ...of be satisfied with

lead a ... life

would rather

refer to）。3、学习动词-ing形式作主语和宾语时的结构和用法4.Wishing for things, however, costs nothing. His other hobbies includes playing mah-jong 情感态度

了解农民的生活，尊重农民的劳动。学会辨别有害食品与绿色食品。关注新农村建设。

学习运用卡片、记笔记等帮助完成说、读、写任务以培养认识策略。用英学习策略

语提出忠告与建议以培养交际策略。借助网络或图书馆搜集现代农业的相关资料以培养资源策略。

文化意识

了解我国作为农业大国的发展史，对现代农业进行思考。了解世界上其他农业国家的情况、人们对待农业的态度以及我国主要农产品进出口的情况。

1、

复习巩固如何使用英语提出忠告与建议。

2、

初步掌握动词-ing形式作主语和宾语时的结构和用法。

基本要求

3、

初步学会用英语描述过去发生的事件。

4、

掌握本单元新出现的28个单词及5条短语在本单元中的用法。

5、

学会按时间顺序来描述一件事。

1、熟练运用动词-ing形式作主语和宾语时的结构和用法。

发展要求

2、熟悉本单元基本要求以外的（课本所附词汇表中带“▲”的）词汇。

3、能用英语制作海报和广告。

说

明

1、不要死记硬背动词-ing形式作主，宾语时的结构和用法；

2、农业这一话题对大多数同学来说比较陌生，学习时不必向课外延伸得太多。

二、教学要求(Teaching demands)

三、教学建议(Suggested teaching notes) 1、课时分配

用6个课时完成教材内容，仅作参考。

课时

第一课时

内容

Warming Up and Pre-reading Reading 说明

根据单元话题（Working the land）进行听说训练，突出对词汇和功能的训练。整体理解全文。

第二课时

第三课时

Reading and Comprehending Learn language points Learning about Language 根据本单元阅读材料进行阅读、猜词、回答问题等阅读训练。学习语言点。

根据单元的语言要求，指导学生理解、发现和学会使用新词汇与新句型。学习动词-ing形式作主语和宾语时的结构和用法

第四课时

第五课时

第六课时

Using language Reading II , 围绕Organic farming& An Early Farmer PioneerReading III Listening, writing

Workbook, Summing up and

Assessment speaking 阅读材料进行阅读理解和训练。

and 利用Listening部分的内容进行听力训练，并利用48页听说的内容进行听说能力训练。

引导学生完成Summing up并据此回顾本单元学习内容的掌握情况。最后进行测试与讲评。

2、教材各部分教学建议

本单元的中心话题是“农业”。

“热身”（Warming Up）部分围绕有关农业、农村和农作物种植的内容提问，让学生谈谈对农村和农业劳动的认识或经验。采用讨论法，在讨论中，教师可充分调动来自农村的学生的讨论积极性，并给予学生一个互相学习和交流的机会。对于没有这方面知识和体验的学生，教师应鼓励他们利用这一机会进行社会调查，有条件的最好能到农村体验生活，让学生有机会真正了解农村生活，了解中国农民的生活现状，提高他们对农业的认识，使来自城镇的现代农业知识的中学生对农村和农业有一定感性认识。

“读前”（Pre-reading）部分提了两组问题。第一组问题讨论大米在东亚和东南亚国家的人民基本生活中所处的地位；第二组问题提出了世界上迫切要解决的现象即饥饿。有关讨论不仅力图激发学生的创造性思维，帮助对课文的理解，为阅读部分的教学做好铺垫。同时让学生了解世界上还存在极其严重的饥饿问题，培养了学生的同情心和人道主义精神。

“阅读”（Reading）部分介绍中国著名的农业科学家、“水稻之父”袁隆平和他的巨大成就。第一段通过对袁隆平的外貌描写，刻画出一个普通中国农民的形象。袁隆平也称他自己是农民，也和农民一起耕种，他的科研殿堂就是广阔的农村。然后介绍袁隆平的科研成果—超级杂交水稻。第二段介绍袁隆平的家庭背景、学业和科研情况。第三段勾勒出袁博士不图名不图利，无私奉献的高尚品质。教学中我们可以引导学生从不同角度分析袁隆平的工作、成就、生活及人格魅力等，勾画出一个过着普通人的生活，干着伟大的事业人先进人物；塑造了一个朴实、务实的中国农业科学家的形象。

“理解”（

Comprehending）部分设计了三个练习。第一个是判断练习，一改非此即彼的绝对化思维模式，设计了部分有待进一步收集信息和讨论的题目。第二个是词语理解题。第三个练习要求学生在阅读课文后回答问题，锻炼他们的归纳总结能力。我们教师可以先处理一、三部分，在处理第二部分，以帮助学生对课文进行整体理解。同时，教师还可以利用完成表格的方式，引导学生分析和整理袁隆平的各方面信息，如出生年月、出生地、形象、所受的教育、成就及爱好等，以培养出学生捕捉信息的能力，帮助他们为学会描述任务、提高写作能力打下基础。

“语言学习”（Learning about Language）部分学习本单元重点词汇和语法项目（动词-ing形式作主语和宾语的用法）。词语学习部分采用根据释义从课文中找词、用所找的词汇完成短文，以及用课文中意义相近词汇替换句中划线部分三种练习形式，帮助学生理解并应用课文中所学的词汇。语法部分通过从课文中找同义句引出动词的-ing形式，教师要启发学生去理解-ing形式的句法功能。然后，模仿例句，用-ing形式做主语改写句子。练习三通过连接短语造句，

让学生学习-ing形式作宾语的用法，并列举后面接动词-ing形式作宾语的动词。教学中，可以与不定式的用法进行比较，以提高学生的迁移能力。练习四具备任务型活动的特色，我们可以在学生动笔之前，向学生提供范例，最好是身边的人或大家熟悉的人。我们在完成该部分内容的同时，结合Workbook第49----50页Using words and expressions和Using structures部分的练习强化语言训练。

“语言运用”（Using Language）部分综合训练学生的听说读写能力。第一部分读写结合，阅读文章介绍的是Organic farming，要求学生读后写一个摘要。首先，提示学生一篇好的摘要能抓住文章的主题并运用重要的新学的词语。然后，向学生提出问题，找出阅读文章的主题句，教师可以向学生介绍主题句通常出现的位置和写法。讨论是提高写作水平的好方法，对摘要进行讨论，不仅提高学生的写作能力，也能提高学生对阅读文章的理解能力。听力部分要求学生先看问题，这样可以提高听的针对性和理解的正确性。听之前，还可以让学生试着对这些问题进行回答，这样就可以把学生头脑中已有的知识和听力内容建立起联系，有利于训练学生的听力预测能力。Reading, speaking and writing部分把读、说和写有机地结合在一起。假设你是一个“绿色食品”生产商，你要说服他人购买你的食品，通过背景阅读和所提供的句型，进行对话。然后为你的食品设计一个广告。

“小结”（Summing Up）部分要求学生就话题、词语和语法三个方面进行回顾、小结和评价；归纳语法的时候，可以采用比较和联想的方法。

“学习建议”（Learning Tip）部分针对提高表达能力提出建议。无论是会话还是写作的过程中，运用笔记都是行之有效的，它可以帮助学生理清思路并合理组织有关观点。指导学生如何学会使用摘要。我们应该重视该部分的内容，为学生的终生学习提供有力的保证。

3、评价建议

非测试性评价: 学生学完本单元后，应通过Workbook中的Checking yourself进行自我评价，反思自己在本单元中的学习情况、解决了什么问题、学习策略有什么改进、还有什么地方需要加强等，同时力求加深自己对现代农业和高科技农产品的了解。

测试性评价: 建议使用单元测试题进行评估，并对不同学生有不同的要求。

测试的重点应：本单元28个新单词、5条短语以及的doing形式作主、宾语的用法。

四、教学步骤

The First & Second Period

Warming up and Pre-reading and Reading

Teaching aims and demands:

1. Allow Ss to contribute their knowledge and experience of agriculture to a class discussion. 2. Learn about an agricultural pioneer namedYuan Longping who worked hard to produced

a new strain of rice. 1.

Target Language

A.

词汇和短语:sunburn, struggle, super, expand, circulate, equip, export, rid…of, be satisfied with, lead a…life, search for, would rather, thanks to, with the hope of, rather than

B.

重点句子1. This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields.

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2. He cares little about spending the money on himself or leading a comfortable life.

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3. He also doesn’t care about being famous.

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4. He feels it gives him less freedom to do his research.

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6. Wishing for things, however, costs nothing.

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2.

Ability goals

Enable students to learn more about agriculture, countryside and farming. By talking they can

exchange their experience with each other. By reading they will realize the role that agriculture plays in human life. In fact this world faces a serious problem-starvation.

So after reading the passage about Dr Yuan students will know the importance of his achievement to man. Of

course they will learn from Dr Yuan some noble character.

3.

Learning ability goals

Help students learn how to describe Dr Yuan Longping including his personality.

A. Teaching important 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 make up their minds to make contributions to motherland in the future like Dr Yuan.

B. Teaching difficult points

1.How to help students learn more about agriculture.

2.Help students really master the usage of words and expressions.

C. Teaching aids ：A tape recorder, a projector and a computer.

D. Teaching procedures & ways

Step 1 : Brainstorming 1.What will you think of when you see the word “agriculture”? irrigation/fertilizer/plain /prairie/field/land/arable land/countryside/grain/food/plants/crop/seed/farmer/farm/GMF

2. What agricultural products can you list? Step 2. Warming up 3. Do you know how to grow the grain?

Show the steps: 1). Select the best seeds

2) plough the fields

3)grow some young plants

4) insert the young plants into the fields

5) take care of the plants

6) get in the crops during the harvest time Step 3

Pre-reading

The purpose of this step is to let students know the importance of rice. By answering the two questions, students can easily understand why we call Dr Yuan Longping a pioneer for all people, and why he devotes all his life to the rice research. Discussion : Rice is our main food. 1.What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?

2. If you had the chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world, what would you do?How to solve hunger? （making good use of the waste land，developing the technology to make a kind of fertilizer to give rice enough nutrition and let them grow quickly and have high product，inventing a new kind of food，improving the quality of the soil ，preventing the pests from eating our crops）

Step 4

1. lead-in and prediction

*1) Ask your parents what they ate during their childhood(about 30 years ago).

(sweet potato番薯

；buckwheat n荞麦; corn；

millet小米

“粟” )

*2). Compared with your parents’ childhood, what about your childhood?

You have enough food, especially rice.

Do you know who did his research and produce rice product? S:..Yuan 3). Look at the picture. Who is he? (A farmer pioneer called “Father of Hybrid Rice”)

Can you describe the picture? (Pepper;Cotton;Super hybrid pear;Eggplant;corn;watermelon;cabbage;Super hybrid rice )

Predicting: From the title, what do you think the text is about?

And what will this passage mainly tell us? (Now let’s read and then check ) Step 5 Fast reading

1)

The purpose of fast reading is to let students find some useful information, and get familiar with the text by doing the true or false statement.

1.Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist.

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 has dreams when he is asleep and also when he is awake.

5 Dr Yuan enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people. 2). Skim reading

Pairwork：Match the following headings(标题）to each paragraph. A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE Para. 1

A. Dr Yuan’s dreams.

Para. 2

B. Dr Yuan’s personality

Para. 3

C. Dr Yuan’s biography(传记). Para. 4

D. Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement.

(1-d 2-c 3-b 4 –a) 2)

Scan the text, try to find out some information of the hero. Name Age Job Education Achievement Hobbies Para1 Q1: What does Dr Yuan look like?He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim, strong body.He Q2: What is his achievement?Para 2: 1.

Why did Dr. Yuan want to increase the rice output when he was young? Because at that time, hunger was a serious problem in many parts of the countryside. He saw many people were suffered from hunger when he was young. 2. How does he help rid the world of hunger?

He works hard to produce the hybrid rice that has a high output. * Put Dr Yuan’s biography in right order: a-c b-e-d-f a. He was born into a poor farmer’s family .

b. He graduated from Southwest Agriculture college. c. In 1950,Chinese farmers

produced 5.5 billion tons of rice. d. 20 billon tons of rice was produced by growing his hybrid rice.

e. He searched a way to increase rice outputs without expanding the area of fields. f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries. Yuan Longping 74 agriculture scientist

college graduate, a doctor

inventing hybrid rice violin music, mah-jong, swimming, reading 3).Careful reading:

Answer the following questions

is more like a farmer than a scientist. He grows what is called super hybrid rice, which makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields.

Para 3:Which of the following description about Dr Yuan’s personality(个性) is not true?

A.

He

is satisfied with his life because he is now rich and famous.

A B. He cares little about money and fame（名声）. C. He would rather work than lead a comfortable life. D. He enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people. Para4:

1.What does “Wishing for things, however, costs nothing.” mean?

Dreams are free and everybody can have ideas about what they would like their future life to be. 2.What did Dr Yuan’s rice look like in his dream?

The rice plants were as tall as sorghum. Each ear of rice was as big as an ear of corn and each grain of rice was as huge as a peanut. 3.Dr Yuan has dreams not only when he is _____ but also when he is______. awake ---asleep

“Step 6 Discussion: Listen to the tape and get ready for discussion. While students are doing this, the teacher shows the chart on the screen. After they have finished their task,ask them(Group A) to look at the screen and fill in it. Show the chart on the screen. A

PIONEER

FOR ALL PEOPLE 1. He wants everyone to call him a farmer. 2. His achievements: 3. His biography: 4. His personality: 5. His hobbies: 6. His dreams: Five minutes later, teachers can ask some of them to fulfil the chart. They can use words, phrases, or sentences to do this. Here is a sample for teacher to refer to.

A

PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE 1. He wants everyone to call him a farmer. (1) A scientist works the land.(2) Sunburnt face and arms, slim, strong body. (3) Grow hybrid rice.

(4) The first agricultural pioneer. 2. 1). Grow hybrid rice.

2). The first agricultural pioneer. 3.His biography.

(1) In 1931, born.(2) In 1953, graduated and devoted his life to finding ways to grow rice.(3) Last year, twenty billion tons of rice was produced. Now, Dr Yuan is circulating his knowledge. 4. His personality:1)He is satisfied with his life. 2)Because he doesn’t like money and fame. 5.

His

hobbies: 1). playing his violin 2). listening to violin music 3). playing mah-jong 4). swimming5). reading

6). riding his motorcycle to his rice fields 6. His dreams:(1) The first dream. saw rice plants as tall as sorghum

(2) The second dream. to export his rice 2) Group B: 1.Yuan Longping has gained great achievement. Why does he offer people his skill and knowledge for free? 2. The arable land in our world is less than we need. Should we expand arable land by cutting down trees or changing seas or lakes into fields? Why or why not?

3) Group C : Even if Dr. Yuan’s dreams come true, can this really solve starvation? Step 7 Learn language points

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Listening and Post-reading

At first, let students listen to the tape, and then finish the exercise in Comprehending. In Step IV and V, we have involved some questions in Exercise 3, so teachers can choose some questions to do. For Exx 1 and 2, teachers can leave some time for students to finish and then check the answers with the whole class. Step

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Summary and Homework Today we talked about agriculture. And we also read about Dr Yuan Longping. We have known much about the great scientist. Now please look at the poem on the screen:

Finish the exercises in learning about language. Exercise 1,2 and 3 are about useful words and expressions. Finish them. After you read the achievements that Dr yuan has made,are you

inspired? What have you learnt from Dr Yuan? What do you think you will do in future?Write a short passage about 100 words.

The Third Period Learning about Language

---------- Words and Grammar 1.Teaching goals

教学目标

2.Rarget language 目标语言

A. 词汇和短语sunburnt, hunger, expand, circulate, struggle, export , output,

satisfied , strain , rid ……of , lead a ….life, would rather , thanks to

B. 语法

The-ing form as subject and object.

C. Ability goals能力目标

Enable students to master the usage of the words and expressions above and use the –ing form as subject and object correctly and freely. 3.

Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help students learn how to use these words and expressions freely to express their ideas and use the–ing form as subject and object as they like. They can also practise actively and attentively do that they reach their goals

A. Teaching important points 教学重点

The usage of the important words and the-ing form used as subject and object . B. Teaching important words points :How to use the expressions and the-ing form freely .

C. Teaching method : Explaining , discussing and practicing . D. Teaching aids : A projector and a computer. E. Teaching procedures & ways

Step 1 Greeting and revision Free talk: 1. What’s your breakfast ?

2. When you are eating at the dinning-room, do you often find some food thrown away ? Step 2 Word study

A．

Complete the sentences with the words from the box in proper forms. Some words may not be used ：Sunburnt, strain, output , export , rid …of , would rather , increase , satisfied , super ,lead…a life , thanks to , struggle

1.With the development of science and technology China is ____ many kinds of electric products to developing countries. 2.Yao Ming plays basketball in NBA and he is a ____ basketball star.

3. _____ bad weather ,our football match has to be put off. 4. Now the old couple _____ simple but happy _____ in the countryside . 5. Judging from his ____face and arms , he works in the open air .

6. I’m very tired . I _____ have a good sleep than go to the cinema .

7. The ____ of corn this year is double that of last year . 8. We ____ wheat to Russia and import silk from Japan . 9. The basketball league _____ by adding four new terns . 10.The people _____ to get out of the burning building .

Three minutes later , the teacher may ask some students to read out their answers and give the Chinese meaning of each sentence . The teacher corrects any mistake and gives some explanations.

（Answers to the sentences: 1.exporting 2.super 3.Thanks to 4. is leading a …life

5.sunburnt 6.would rather 7.output 8.export 9. was strained

10.struggled ）

B. Finish the Exx 1,2 and 3 on Page 11---Page 12.

Step 3

Grammar

There are two tasks in this step. One is to do some explanations about the structure ; the other is to do some exercises in the discovering useful structures in page 12. Task 1 A. The following sentences are from the text. There are some useful structures in them . Let students translate them and pay attention to these boldface words . 1…,he cares little about spending the money on himself or leading a comfortable life.

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P.10 3. His other hobbies include playing mah-jong ,swimming and reading .

P.10 4. Wishing for things , however , costs noting .

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B. Complete the sentences with the given words in proper forms.

1.Fancy Mary _____ (do ) a thing like that ! 2._____ ( take ) physical exercise every day is profitable to our health . 3.That is a matter of importance , it wants ______ ( handle ) carefully . 4. Her not _____ (come back ) made us disappointed . 5. I must apologize for ______ ( not let )you know ahead of time . 6. Mr Brown regretted ______ (beat ) his son.

Check the answers and correct mistakes if there is any and do some explanations at the same time . Task 2

A .Do some exercises: Please do Ex 2 on Page 12. You are asked to rewrite the following sentences using the -ing form as the subject . Ask some students to do them one by one . B. Do Exercise 3. This time join the two halves to sentences. C. Finish Ex. 4 in Page 13. Use the following phrases with the –ing form to describe a person you admire.

Teacher can give students four minutes to write a short passage by themselves and then ask one or two students to give their answers. Step 4

Using Structures A. Finish Ex. 1 on P. 50. Check their answers with the whole class .

B. Exercise.

Now work in pairs or groups to finish this task. Step 5

Homework Finish all exercises on Page 49.

The Four Period Using Language

Reading II Teaching language

1.Target language

A 重点词语

mineral , reduce ,supply, organic,level ,whatever ,bacteria ,refer to ,year after year

B 重点句型: There are 8 sentences with –ing as subj.or obj.

2.Ability goals

能力目标

Enable Ss to master the main idea of the text and know the ways of organizing articles. 3.Learning ability goals

学能目标

Help students learn how to enlarge the words and know the ways of the same topic. A. Teaching important and difficult points

1.How to grasp the main idea of the passage. 2.How to grasp the words and phrases and be able to use them of the same topic.

B. Teaching methods

Show questions, read fast, find the main idea carefully and finish all the tasks. C. Teaching aids : A recorder and a projector. D. Teaching procedures & ways

Step 1

Greeting

Step 2

Lead –in

Group work discussion : Ask your parents whether they buy vegetables from local farmers or supermarkets? Why?

The answers may be quite different. One thing they will find is that now people need various kinds of food every day. Another thing is that they choose green food. It’s natural that Ss found that nowadays people pay much attention to green food.They prefer healthy fruit and vegetables. So it’s important to develop organic farming. And it’s very necessary for us to learn today’s passage: ORGANIC FARM.

Step 3

Reading

There are three tasks in this. Teachers can ask students to read the articles one paragraph by one paragraph. Ask them some questions about the passages. There are three paragraphs in the article. In each passage, there is one or two questions. When students finish these questions, they will find that the structure of the text has turned up.

Task 1 : Read and then answer the questions about the text. Show Q on the screen:

1.What is the organic farming? 2.What is the advantage of using natural fertilizer? 3.What is the disadvantage of using chemical fertilizers? 4.What’s the main idea of paragraph3?

5.Why do farmers grow their crops in such ways? Read the text one paragraph by one paragraph and answer the questions. Task 2: Structure of the text

Look at the screen. This is the structure of the text. Read it and retell the text according This is the structure of the text. Read it and text according to it.

Organic Farming

I. Crops growing with natural fertilizers

II. Farmers prefer natural waste from animals

Natural fertilizer

Chemical fertilizer 1 make…richer and more fertile

1.leaving…is not good for the soil and 2 reduce …and help …strong

2 grow …year after year

and healthy

3. kill both ….bacterial and pests 3 the fertilizers keep …from

chemicals

III . Farmers change crops every two or three years to make sure what is left …

Give students some time to retell the text by themselves if time permits. Teacher can ask some of them to read out his or her passage. Task 3: Exercises on Page 14 Listening and discuss the advantages of organic farming. What are the advantages of organic farming? Find the information in the passage. Advantages of organic farming from animals. 2.

The soil is not exhausted. advantage. Reasons

more fertile. 2. Peas and soybeans renew the minerals in the 3. They plant crops that need surface soil and next crops that grow at a deeper level. So the wind and water does not carry away the soil. All the richness of the soil is used. For Exercise 3, here is a simple: Organic farming means crops growing with natural fertilizers instead of chemical ones. Yhe natural fertilizer which is natural waste from animals does good to soil. It makes the soil richer in minerals while chemical fertilizers damage the soil, leaving chemicals fertilizers in the ground for a long time and killing both helpful and harmful bacteria and pests. Organic farmers keep the soil rich and healthy by changing plants every two or three years, planting different crops in different layers and planting grass between crops to prevent wind or water from carrying away the soil. Step 4 Learn the Language points

Show the following sentences on the screen: 1. reduce v. make sth smaller in size, number, degree, price, etc e.g. This company tries to increase profits by reducing costs. 2. We have reduced expenses this year. 3. supply v. give sb sth that is needed or useful e.g. He kept me well supplied with cups of coffee while I wrote the report. The shop was unable to supply what she wanted. In Britain milk is supplied to each house in bottles. 4. whatever

pron. any or every(thing) e.g. we will be grateful for whatever amount you cab afford. Whatever I have is yours. 5.refer to v. mention or speak of sb. / sth. e.g. When I said some people are stupid, I wasn’t referring to you.

Don’t refer to this mater again. 6. year after year e.g. The villagers plant trees on the hill year after year Step 5

Discussion group work: 1.

Farmers use natural waste 1. This makes the soil richer in minerals and so

3.

They use the soil to best

Soil becomes rich and healthy.

Divide the class into groups of four，and each of them has to do one of the following discussion.

Show students the questions:

1.What is the advantage of using natural fertilizer? 2.What is the disadvantage of using chemical fertilizers? 3. Talk about the agriculture programmes in your hometown. Then give the students enough time to share their findings with other groups. At last, it is a good idea to ask the students to speak out what they find to the class. And the teacher gives some evaluation.

前面两题围绕着课文，为了熟悉课文，我们设计第三个问题是出于我们随着人民生活水平的提高，在我们这些地方农业问题不是温饱问题，无危害的粮食和蔬菜，生态示范园的建立，更是人们关注的重点与热点。我们在这个方面向课外延伸，学会辨别有害食品与绿色食品，和生态示范园的建立（如浙江晨龙太空农业科技园(http://www.cn-chenlong.com/或中国晨龙.com)航天育种基地种植的经过"神六"的"太空丝瓜"、" 太空番茄"，"太空西瓜"），从而激发学生热爱农业科学，以及对当代农民带来的益处。

Step 6

Reading on Page 51 A. Answer these questions:

1: What’re his ambitions or dreams?

2.What made him have such ambition? 3.How did he get his achievement?

4. How many suggestions did he give to farmers? 5. What’s his contribution?

B. Fill in the chart in Page 52. After students finish the chart, check the answers.

Keeping seeds

Choosing seeds to plant

Advice for farmers

Hang seed-heads up to dry all winter, knock seeds out when they are sown. Choose ones with the best clour Way to get rid of weeds1

Let animals eat them before planting Way to get rid of weeds2

Turn the soil over and cover so the weeds die Autumn ploughing

Spring ploughing

Crops

Deep ploughing Less deep ploughing Change crops grown in the same field every year. Step 6

HomeworkTo collect some information about the safety and importance of green food.

The Fifth Period Listening A. Teaching goals教学目标

By listening the materials, require the students to grasp the ways of listening and try to improve their listening ability. 1. Ability goals

1).Get the key words of each listening material, and then get the main ideas of theirs, so that students can catch the passage and realize the purpose of listening. 2).Change what they heard into their own thoughts and express them out in their language. 2. Learning ability goals ：Help students get some skills in listening:

3. Teaching important and difficult points Train to get the key words by reading the questions before listening, understand the whole passage and then answer some questions about the text. B. Teaching methods :Instruction and practice

C. Teaching aids :A tape recorder and a projector

D. Teaching procedures

Step I

Lead-in

Free Talk:

Where did you go over your weekend?

Step II

Listening on Page 14

1. Teacher shows the following words and asks students to tell their meanings in Chinese. valley competitor determined pour carrots cucumbers

pumpkins

attack wildfire sigh solid 2. Listen to the tape for the first time, and get a general idea of the passage.

Listen to the tape again and fill in the chart in Exercise 1, page 14.

3. Show the answer chart on the screen for students so that they can check it quickly. Farming Practices Crops grown Fertilizer Other plant nutrition Results Mr Jone’s farm

Carrots, cucumbers, pumpkins Chemical Water Empty inside Mr Smith’s farm

Carrots, cucumbers, pumpkins Natural Water Solid and healthy indise 4.Listen to the tape once again. This time we’ll finish Exercise 2 and 3.

Step III

Listening on Page 48 Play the tape for three times. Ask students to finish the whole exercises And then check the answer with the whole class. Step IV Listening on Page 50 This is an easy listening material. The purpose is to give students some information about early faming methods in different areas of the world. What students should do is to read the descriptions on Page 50,and match them with the correct sites on Page51.

Listen twice.

Check the answers with the whole class. Step V

Summary and Homework

The Six Period

Workbook, Summing up and Assessment A. Teacher goals

1. Target language

I would rather ...

I don't ...because ... I'd prefer ...because ...

It's a great pity that ... Should I/ we ...?

It's better to ... This is good value because ...

If I have a choice I'd choose ...because ...

What is the advantage of ...?

You need to ...

2. Ability goals To improve students' integrating skills. It helps students express themselves and develop an argument to try to persuade to believe that their ideas are correct.

3.Learning ability goals

Let students learn how to express themselves and write a clear and attractive poster to persuade to believe what they say.

B .Teaching important and difficult points

1. To understand what they read.

2.How to find reasons to persuade people to believe what they say.

3.How to write an attractive poster.

C. Teaching methods

Reading, speaking ,discussing and writing.

D. Teaching aids : A projector and a recorder.

E. Teaching procedures

Step I

Lead-in

There are three main tasks in these period.

1.Deal with the reading. Speaking and Writing on Page 15. 2.Do SPEAKING AND WRITING TASK on Page 53. 3. Finish TALKING on Page 48

Step Ⅱ

Reading

1.This is the first step of Reading, Speaking and Writing. In the three steps, teacher should remind students the following: for reading, they should get the key words of the passage, in order to get a good understanding and make a good base for the writing; for speaking, they should attend to what they will do. Be careful not be off the point; for writing ,the most important thing is to practise

writing using phrases, instead of the whole sentences. Give students a minute to read it and then show a chart on the screen to let them make sure the important points of this passage.

Advantage:

Healthy and safe Free of chemical fertilizers Grown away from industrial areas Away from dirty water supplies Disadvantage: People don’t know about the food and how good it is More expensive than other food which is not so safe

Read Exercise 2 and then finish the task with the words and expressions below. Make sure that all that the students say is to persuade people to buy their food! So please don't be off this point. Give students some time to do this.

Step Ⅲ

Speaking

Three minutes later, teacher can collect students' ideas. There are two kinds of ways to do this task. One is the seller's speech; he other is dialogue between two students. Students can choose either of them to practise the phrases below.

Step Ⅳ

Writing

In this part the students should not use the whole sentences, using phrases or notes is OK. Ask students to read the instructions, and the example on Page 16 carefully. And then write down their poster.

Give students three minutes to practise. And give them enough help, if some of them need it. Three minutes later teacher can ask one or two pairs of students to-act out their dialogues.

Main heading

Buy the best fruits here

This explains that you We only sell green food in this shop! sell green food.

Reasons to buy ( one reason ) ( one reason )] ( one reason ) ( one reason ) Why it is good value. Step V Talking

The purpose of this task is to let students practice how to persuade others, using some useful expressions below the instructions. There are two tasks to finish the talking. First, teacher should help the students to remember who is Leng Jianli and what did she do. Second, ask the students to practice.

The chart will give you more information about Leng Jianli. Maybe it is useful to your talking.

What Leng Jianli did : Plant trees, bushes and other plants in the desert near her farm. /Carry water from far away and take very good care of them. /Have been working very hard for many years.

/Turn desert into farmland. Read the instructions in Talking on Page 48.

Step Ⅳ

Speaking and Writing Task on Page 53

Sample writing:

A fish farm is a pond or cage in the sea where farmers raise fish. In this case farmers can help fish grow faster to be big enough. This summer holiday I'm going to visit a fish farm near Yingshan lake.

A fish farmer has to be careful when he keeps fish in a pond .He must keep the water of the ponds from becoming too dirty. He also is to keep fish very close together. What I am most interested in is to feed fish. I think fish must be fed regularly--twice or three times a day. I enjoy the scene in which fish jump up to take food. Besides feeding, the other task I have to do is to try to stop fish being affected by disease. I understand that fish disease are a serious problem. If that happened, all the fish in the pond would die. So I have to examine fish for disease. If so,I have to give some medicine to the fish.

I imagine I'll be busy on a fish farm and have a good time.

Step Ⅶ

Homework

Finish the Project on

Page49 .

Summing up on Page 16. * **The Seventh Period Teaching goals

1.Target language Word and expressions of this unit. 2.Ability goals Enable Ss to summarize what they learned and make a check by themselves. 3.Learning ability goals Help Ss learn how to summarize what they have learned according to the instructions in the Summing up and Checking Yourself. B Teaching important and difficult points How to review and conclude what students learned.

C. Teaching methods

Help students learn by themselves. D. Teaching aids

A projector.

Step I

Exx on page 49 Best choice at best price! Safe, healthy, clean, fresh. Far away from any pollution. No chemical fertilizer, all organic fertilizers Clean air, clean water No poison, no pesticides Home in heaven Healthy food means healthy life. Far away from diseases, without worries, full of happiness. ( one reason )

For Exx 1 and 2, teacher can show them the answer sheet, so that they can check the answers quickly. For Exercise 3, teacher can ask some of them to go to the blackboard to write down their translation. And then check them with the whole class. If there are some problems, teacher can ask student to discuss and give them some suggestions to solve them. Step II

Summary 1.Fill in the chart on Page 16 to sum up what we have learned in this unit. SUMMING UP Write down what you have learned about working the land. We have learned about agriculture and deeds of Dr Yuan Longping. We also know what organic farming is and grasp how to express our ideas and write a poster. From this unit you have also learned: Useful verbs: expand

export

circulate

rid…of reduce

struggle

equip

Useful nouns: hunger

bacteria

fertilizer

mineral

supply

level Useful adjectives and adverbs: super

sunburnt

satisfied

fertile

organic Other expressions: would rather

lead a…life

refer to

year after year

New grammar item: the –ing form used as the subject and object Step III Project After we learn the main topic in this unit, we ask Ss to find the most famous agricultural products in your own hometown. Introduce its name, history, character, economic effect and so on. For example: Jinyun, scientific garden of farming , experimental rice field of Zhejing University

Lishui: orange; peach

Qintian: fish; waxberry杨梅

Suichang: tea; Jingning: tea; mushroom

Qingyuan: orange; mushroom;

bamboo shoot n笋，竹笋

Step IV

Checking yourself This is a chance for students to collect knowledge they have learned in this unit. Teacher can give the students some time to discuss it and then finish the questions in the chart. Doing this task can improve students ability of teaching by oneself. Step V

Homework 1.Preview the next unit 2.Show the students some English farming proverbs and ask the students learn them by heart: