Using LanguageⅡ教案设计（一等奖）

Book 4 Unit 2 Working the Land Warming Up ＆

Reading (Ⅰ) 教学设计

汉阴县第二高级中学

颜贤莉

Teaching aims： 1.The students will learn something about Yuan Longping including his personality

and his great achievements by reading the passage. 2.The students will comprehend the text and grasp the main idea of the text. 3.To further develop students’ reading abilities like skimming, scanning and summarizing by doing some reading etc. 4.The students will have a better understanding of the great value of the scientific research done by Dr.Yuan Longping. 5.To cultivate students’

sense of sympathy and humanism and lead the students to learn some noble character from Dr.Yuan. Teaching key points: 1.Get the students to read the text and learn something about Dr.Yuan , his great achievements and his personality. 2.To cultivate students’

sense of sympathy and humanism and lead the students to learn some noble character from Dr.Yuan. Teaching difficult points: 1.To further develop students’ reading abilities like skimming, scanning and summarizing by doing some reading etc. 2.The students can comprehend the text and have a better understanding of the great value of the scientific research done by Dr.Yuan. Teaching methods: Task-based language teaching method;

Cooperative learning method; Communicating learning method. Teaching procedures：

Step 1 Lead in 1.Have you ever been to the countryside? What did you see or do there?

2.Show students a picture about the farmers transplanting rice. Ask students their experience on farming. 3.Show them another picture of African people to show that even today, a large number of people still die of hunger every year, especially in Africa.Therefore, it is necessary to develop agriculture all over the world. Step 2 Pre-reading 1.

What do you think would happen if there were suddenly nothing to eat? ---Suffer from starvation and starve to death. Fight for food, even killing each other.

Feel scared. / Be panic.

The whole country will get into serious trouble. ... 2.How to solve hunger? ---preventing the pest from eating our crops; ---developing the technology to…

----The only way to solve the food shortage problem is to increase the output of the grain crop per land area through the advancement of science and technology. Step 3 Reading Task 1 Fast-reading 1.Read the text quickly and match the following heading with the right paragraphs. Para 1 A. Dr. Yuan’s personality Para 2 B. Dr. Yuan’s dreams Para 3 C. Dr. Yuan’s biography Para 4 D. Dr. Yuan’s appearance and achievements 2.Read the text again and find out some important facts about Yuan Longping.

A Pioneer for All People Name: Yuan Longping

Nationality: China Age:

89

Occupation: Scientist/ Farmer

Education: Southwest Agricultural College Dream: To export his rice so that it can be grown around the globe. Achievement:Super hybrid rice (this hybrid rice has a high output) Hobbies:Listening to violin music, playing mah-jong, swimming and reading. Task 2 Careful reading

1.

Paragraph 1 Yuan Longping’s appearance and his achievement

Q1: What does Yuan Longping look like? Q2: What is his achievement? 2.

Paragraph 2

(1)His biography Time Information 1930 Born 1953 Graduated from college 1. Hunger was a disturbing problem. As a young man 2. Saw the great need for increasing the rice output. In a recent harvest Nearly 200 million tons of rice was produced Now (2)Put the sentences in order: a. He was born in a poor farmer’s family.

Circulating his knowledge b. He graduated from Southwest Agricultural College. c. In 1950,Chinese farmers produced only about fifty-six million tons of rice. d. About 200 million tons of rice was produced by growing his hybrid rice.

e. He searched for a way to increase rice output without expanding the area of

the fields.

f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries. 3. Paragraph3 (1).Topic sentence: Yuan Longping is quite satisfied with his life. He doesn’t care about fame and money. He likes freedom for his research and hobbies. (2).Talk about his hobby. 4. Paragraph4 (1).Get the students to find out the topic sentence: Just dreaming for things, however, costs nothing. (2).Talk about his dreams in groups. His first dream:

(rice plants) as tall as sorghum ( each ear of rice) as big as an ear of corn (each grain of rice) as huge as a peanut His second dream:to export his rice so that it can be grown around the globe. Step 4 Post reading 1.A free talk:What can we learn from Dr.Yuan?

2.Group work: Discuss the following questions in your group. Then share in class. What's your dream? Why do you have such a dream? How can you achieve your dream? Step 5 Summary Emotional theme:Where there is a will,there is a way. Step 6 Homework 1. Read the text aloud after class. 2. Write a brief introduction of Yuan Longping in English.