Learning about Language教学实录及点评

Unit 2

Working the land 教学设计

How to help the students make up their minds to make contributions to the

How to help the students improve their reading ability and understand the

Discussion to help the students understand better what they’ve learned and to use

2) Learn the following useful words, expressions and dr

Expressions: rid...of, be satisfied with, lead a...life, search for, would rather,

1) This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce one-third more of the

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

5) His other hobbies include playing mah-

Enable the students to learn more about agriculture, countryside and farming. They can exchange their experience with each other by talking and realize the role

It can help the students, especially the students in cities, know something about agriculture. And remind the students to cherish the food.

Teaching procedure:

Step 1. Warming up Task 1.

Let the students read the following poem, and guess the origin poem in

Chinese. Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray,

Due to their toiling day. Task 2. Let the students discuss the following questions 1.

Have you ever grown any plants?

2. How will you grow it? Step 2. Pr-reading 1.Introduce Dr Yuan to the class, show the student some pictures of Dr Yuan. Step 3. Reading

Task 1. Scanning

Find out the topic sentence of each paragraph and match the following headings to each paragraph. Para1

A. Dr Yuan’s dreams.

Para2

B. Dr Yuan’s personality.

Para3

C. Dr Yuan’s biography (传记).

Para4

D. Dr Yuan’s appearance

and his achievement Task 2. Careful reading Para. 1

Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement Q1: What does Dr Yuan look like? Q2: What is his achievement? Para 2

Put Dr Yuan’s biography in right order.

a.He was born into a poor farmer’s family.

b.He graduated from Southwest Agriculture college.

c. In 1950, Chinese farmers

produced 50 million tons of rice.

d. 200 millon tons of rice was produced by growing his hybrid rice.

e. He searched for a way to increase rice outputs without expanding

theareaoffields.

f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries. Proper order:

Para. 3

Dr Yuan’s personality

Which of the following description about Dr Yuan’s personality is not true? (

)

A. He is satisfied with his life because he is now rich and famous. B. He cares little about money and fame. C. He would rather work than lead a comfortable life. D. He enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people. Para 4 His dreams The first dream

Produce a kind of rice that could feed more people As tall as sorghum As big as a corn

As huge as a peanut The second dream

To export his rice so that it can be grown all over the world

Personal information (Resume) Name:

Nationality:

Date of birth:

Appearance:

Education:

Personality:

Achievements:

Dreams:

Hobbies:

Achievements:

Hobbies:

Step 5. Homework Write a passage about “My Father” according to the structure of the text .(about 50 words).

Reflection after class