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教学设计

Unit 2

Working the land

殷情

抚宁区第一中学

教学目标

1．知识与技能目标：全体学生学会运用略读、寻读、预测和分析性阅读等策略，捕捉文章的重点、知识与技能、重要信息，提高对语篇深层次理解及结构分析的能力；掌握阅读微技能，并通过任务拓展训练，达到灵活运用英语进行听、说、读、写的目的。

2.情感目标：通过阅读理解，学生真正感受袁隆平培育杂交水稻的艰辛历程以

及他那淡薄名利的精神，学习他为中国乃至世界人民无私奉献的精神，增强关心他人、为社会做

积极贡献的意识，从而树立正确的世界观和人生观。

教学重点和难点

1.通过任务型阅读教学使全体学生学会获取语言知识和信息知识，培养学生用英语获取信息、处理信息、分析问题和解决问题的能力。

2.为全体学生进行有效性阅读策略的点拨与指导，如略读、寻读、预测和研读（具体包括了语篇分析、逻辑推理、归纳概括等技巧。

3.培养全体学生有效进行语言输入和语言输出转换的能力。

4.在训练学生语言能力的同时，注重激发学生的想象力，培养学生的创新思维，提升他们的整体素质。

教学方法

合作交际法; 任务型语言教学法; 阅读自学法

教学过程

Lead-in：Enjoy a poem —The Peasant’s lot

Aim: Let students realize that Food is the basic need for human being and is precious.

Pre-reading：Read the statistics, see a picture and answer progressive questions. Aim: 1、By reading the statistics let students realize two facts. (1) More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day. (2) China can feed 22%of the world’s people from just 7%of the farmland.

2、Bring in the role of the passage——Yun Longping.

While-reading：

Fast reading (task one):

Step I skim the passage and match the main idea of each paragraph.

Para1

A. Dr. Yuan’s dreams.

Para2

B. Dr. Yuan’s personality.

Para3

C. Dr. Yuan’s experience.

Para4

D. Dr. Yuan’s appearance and his achievement. Step II

Reading and Taking notes (discuss in groups)

Aim: It can help students master the main idea and the general outline of the passage. Moreover it can improve quick information acquisition ability of students.

Detail reading (task two) Paragraph one: Yuan Longping thinks he is a _____ as well as a scientist. He has ________ face and arms and a

_____, ________ body. He works hard and grows super ________ rice. In 1974, he became a pioneer to grow rice that has a high________ . Paragraph two (work in pairs) Time

1930

1953

As a young man

1950

information

In a recent harvest

now

Paragraph three (quick response) Dr.Yuan is quite satisfied with his life. He doesn’t care about ______ and _______. He likes freedom for his search and hobbies which include ___________________、___________________________、_________________、_____________________、__________________________. 1、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. 2、What is Yuan Longping’s attitude towards money?

A. The more, the better

B. Too much will cause a lot of troubles

C. Money is of no use 3、Which of the hobbies below is the one that Yuan Longping doesn’t do now?

A. swimming, reading

B. playing mah-jong C. playing violin and walking to his rice fields

Paragraph four

The first dream _______________________________________

His dreams

The second dream _______________________________________ Aim:

It can help students grasp details of the passage, especially grasp the way of describing characters.

Post reading (task three Self-improvement) Step I Self-improvement (我是小小出题者) Discuss with your partners and make up an exercise according to the passage. It can be a question, correction, true or false, gap-filling or multiple-choice.

Aim: For one thing, it can test and improve students’ comprehension of the passage. For another, it can improve students’ communicative ability.

Step II Listening and grammar filling: Yuan Longping is a great man, for he has _______

(struggle) for human race for a long time. His attention is

(focus) on finding ways to grow more green rice, which will not lead _______ illness.

(use) his special rice ,farmers can produce harvest twice as large

before without

(expand) the area of the fields.

（thank）to his research, Chinese

（rid) themselves of

(hungry).

, he is called “father of hybrid rice”. In addition, he is

(satisfy) with his life. He

rather keeps time for swimming, which builds

his strength. Aim:

This step aims to make a summary to the passage and this type exercise can improve student’s ability of completing grammar filling which is the exercise type of college entrance examination. Step III Brief introduce of Jia Sixie and Qin Yuefei who contribute to agriculture. Aim: Set up the correct outlook on life and values. Task four Discussion Imagine that you a re the members of an agricultural cooperative(合作社), please discuss the plan of your cooperative, such as the name, technology, product, methods, crops and so on.

Aim: Improve communicative ability

Lead students to think independently and express self-feelings freely.

Encourage students to know more about agriculture.

Increase students’ respect of farmers. Homework Read a passage of Jia Sixie and finish the exercise. An early farmer pioneer

Some people thought Jia Sixie was a lucky man. He had worked for the emperor and when

he got old, he was able to go to his hometown to relax. Jia Sixie, however, had other plans. He had always been interested in agriculture and intended to do something to make Chinese farming even better.

Jia Sixie lived in the sixth century AD. He was born in Yi Du in Shandong Province and worked in Gao Yang, which is also in Shandong. As he rode through the countryside on his journeys for his work he looked out at the fields. Some of them were greener and had more crops than others. Some cows and sheep looked healthier than others too. He was lost in thought. What could a farmer do to get good crops from his fields? Surely there must be rules that would help them. He thought he could use his knowledge to find out the best ways for farmers to grow crops and then write a book to help them. In doing so he collected information from farmers who did well, studied it and did experiments to find the best way.

For example, he studied ways of keeping seeds and advised farmers to choose seed-heads which had the best color. Then he told them to hang them up to dry all winter. The next spring the seeds should be knocked out of their seed-heads and planted. He studied how to improve the soil. He advised farmers to clear weeds from the ground before planting crops. They could either let the animals eat the weeds or turn the soil over so that the weeds were covered and would rot. Then he gave advice on turning over the soil. The first time each year, farmers should dig deeply, but the second time should be less deep. Therefore the autumn ploughing of the soil should be deeper than the spring ploughing. He suggested changing crops in the field every year: rice one year and wheat the next so that they would always get good harvests. They should also grow different plants next to each other in the field. He also gave advice on how to fish, keep a garden and even make wine.

He wrote down his advice in a book called “Qi Min Yao Shu”, which was considered an important summary of the knowledge of fanning. For centuries after Jia Sixie died, it was studied by Chinese farmers and students of agriculture.

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What advice did Jia Sixie give farmers? Make note in a chart. Aim: Consolidate comprehensive ability

Fulfill the agricultural knowledge of students.

Exercise logical thinking and writing ability of students.