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高中英语人教版必修4 Unit 2

Working the Land (A Pioneer for All People)

Teaching material. The core of this unit is “agricultural”, it mentions our famous scientist Yuan Longping’s contributions to agriculture and the influence of fertilizer to the land, and how to develop organic farming. My teaching lesson includes warming up, pre-reading and reading. It mainly introduces our famous agriculturist Yuan Longping and his great contributions . According to learn this lesson, Students can be able to learn some important words, expressions and sentence structures.The students will know some knowledge of agriculture and the significance of organic farming. According to the new standard curriculum and the syllabus , after studying the teaching material and analyzing the rule of children’s growing of mind, I think the teaching aims are the followings: Knowledge aims:

Students can learn the usage of words, expressions and sentence structures and make use of them.

Ability aims:

Students are able 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 characters. Emotional objectives:

Students are able to learn some noble character from Dr Yuan ,they will know the contribution of Yuan, and learn his spirit and his simple life time. Teaching important points：

1. The usage of some words and expressions.

2. Help to comprehend the text and grasp the main idea of the text.

3. How to help students make up their minds to make contributions to motherland in the

future like Dr Yuan. Teaching difficult points ：

1. How to help students learn more about agriculture.

2. Help students master the some ways of reading. Students Analysis

Class Four, Grade one is my teaching class. My students are almost from the countryside. Therefore, They are familiar with the knowledge and the information of the countryside. As senior students , they have a certain ability to read. As for the learning methods, they are poor in cooperative learning skills. Some students are not active in the class .Therefore , I ’ll have students study in a relaxed atmosphere.

According to the analysis of the teaching material and the students’ learning background , I will use the following methods .

Teaching Methods:

In my opinion, the main instructional aims of learning English in the Middle School is to develop the students’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading, writing and their good sense of the English language. So in this lesson I’ll mainly use “Communicative” Approach, “Situational teaching”

and “Task-based” language teaching . That is to say, I’ll let the students

get a better understanding of the key structure of the passage. At the same time, I’ll make use of the modern electricity teaching equipments and all kinds of teaching means, it can develop the students creativity in learning English. Teaching procedures: Step 1 : Warming up Purpose of my design: To make the students have a better understanding about the importance of producing food. And

it can attract students’ attention. 1. Show a famous poem written by Lishen in order to ask students to cherish food. 2. What do you know about farming? (Pepper; Cotton; Super hybrid pear; Eggplant;corn; watermelon; cabbage; Super hybrid rice ) 3. Do you know the farming steps? 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 2.

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?

3. 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. 4. Look at the picture. Who is he?

(A farmer pioneer called “Father of Hybrid Rice) Can you describe the picture? Step 3. Fast reading

The purpose of fast reading is to let students find some useful information, and get familiar with the text. So in this step, teacher can design some questions for students, so that they can easily find the answers and finish the reading task.

1. Which of the following statements tells the main idea of the text? It ’s about____

A. A farmer named Yuan Longping

B. How Yuan Longping became rich and famous C. An agricultural pioneer named Yuan Longping who worked

hard to produce a new strain of rice

D. A new strain of rice which is called super hybrid rice

2. Pairwork：Match the following headings(标题）to each paragraph. 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) Step 4.

Careful reading:

The purpose of fast reading is to enable students to understand the given material better using different reading skills. To present Sample A by CAI is much easier for the Students to learn and grasp the meanings. Then ask some students to answer the following questions: Para1: Q1: What does Dr Yuan look like?

He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim, strong body. He is more like a farmer than a scientist. Q2: What is his achievement?

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 2:

Time Information

1930 Born in Beijing

1953 Graduated from Southwest Agricultural College

As a young Saw the great need for increasing the rice output

Hunger was a disturbing problem

In a recent harvest Nearly 200 million tons of rice produced

Now Circulating his knowledge

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. Para 3:

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. Para4:

Q1. 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. Q2. Dr Yuan has dreams not only when he is _____ but also when he is______. awake ---asleep

Step 5 .Discussion:

The purpose of my design: “Task-based” teaching method is used here to develop the students’ ability of communication and also their ability of co-operation will be well trained. I think proper competition can arouse the students’ interest in English learning. If the Students can finish this task well, they will benefit a lot in their spoken English. By this step, it achieved the teaching aim of understanding and talking the dialogue of this lesson. 1. Is Dr Yuan more of a scientist or more of a farmer? Do you think he is a businessman? Give your reasons. 2. Dr Yuan thinks that a person with too much money has more rather than fewer troubles. Do you agree or disagree? Why? 3. Suppose you were Dr Yuan’s daughter or son. Introduce your “father” to your classmates.

You may use some of the following expressions: more… than…

sunburnt face & arms

slim, strong body

invent super hybrid rice be famous as

in 1930 in 1953

at present be satisfied with

lead a…life

prefer freedom to fame

hobbies

would rather

dream of doing sth. Step 6. Homework

Purpose of my design: This content is an extension of the previous lesson, to meet the needs of increasing writing abilities demand of the students.

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 the future? Write a short passage about

100 words.