Learning about Language优秀教学设计范文

Unit 2 Working the land Teaching Procedures:

Teaching Goals: 1.

To develop Ss’ ability of using words and expressions. 2.

To develop Ss’ ability of speaking.

3.

To enrich Ss’ knowledge of farming Step Ⅰ Greeting and leading in

1. What are the people doing? 2.Can you tell me something about rice?

Step Ⅱ Warming up

1.Discussion: (group work) Have you ever grown any plants? If so, what did you do to grow them? If not, what kind of plant would you like to grow? How will you grow it? Step Ⅲ Pre-reading

1. What are the serious problems the world faces today?

Environment Population Natural resources

Wars Poverty Hunger …

More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day. - the World Health K]

2.

What can we do to solve world hunger?

the population

StepIV

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. 1.What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? Period 1 板书设计和反思：

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2. If you had the chance to do one thing to help end famine in the world, what would you do? Period 2Reading Comprehending& Language Points Teaching Goals: 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. Step

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?

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 2

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, some questions are designed for students, so that they can easily find the answers and finish the reading task. 1. What does Dr Yuan look like? 2. What’s his achievement?

3. What do you think of him? Step 3 Careful Reading and Explanation

1.Give students 3 minutes to read and find the main idea

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of the text. While students are doing this, show the chart on the screen. After they have finished their task, ask them 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 biography. 3.

His personality. 4.

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. 2.

(1) A scientist works the land. (2) Sunburnt face and arms, slim, strong body. (3) Grow hybrid rice. (4) The first agricultural pioneer. 2. 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. 3. His personality. He is satisfied with his life. Because he doesn’t like

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money and fame. 4. His dreams. (1) The first dream. (2) The second dream.

Step 4 Learn language points 1)“…for that’s how he regards himself”.

“how he regards himself”, means how he thinks of himself. It refers to a person’s self-image . 2) “…has more, rather than fewer troubles.”?

while “ …has more, rather than fewer troubles” means that you expect fewer troubles but in face you get more than you thought you would. 3) struggle v to make great efforts e.g. They have struggled for years to free their country from the enemy. I’m struggling to finish the huge helping you gave me.

4)sunburnt adj sun-tanned e.g. His sunburnt skin looks healthy. 5)super adj (infml) excellent; splendid e.g. You’ll like her, she’s super.

You look super in your new clothes. It was super of you to help. 6) expand v (cause sth to) become greater in size, number or importance e.g. Metals expand when they are heated.

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Why not try to expand your story into a novel? 7)circulate v (cause sth to) pass from one person, place, etc to another e.g. People who circulate false news are to be blamed. Yet reports of this kind have been circulated by our newspapers. The news of the enemy’s defeat quickly circulated round the town. 7) equip v supply sb/sth (with what is needed, for a particular purpose) e.g. Now all fishing boats are radio-equipped. They can’t afford to equip their army properly. Please equip yourself with sharp pencil and a rubber for the exam. 9)export v send(goods) to another country for sale e.g. India exports tea and cotton to many different countries. This company has a large home market but doesn’t export. 10) rid…of make sb/sth free from(sb/sth unpleasant) e.g. We all wish that we would rid the world of famine. The farmer recently tried to rid the house of rats. 11) lead… a life, live… a life

e.g. Now we are leading a happy life.

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In the old days farmers led a terrible life in the country. 12) be satisfied with, be content with e.g. The young lady isn’t satisfied with the peaceful life. Are you satisfied with his answers? 13) would rather, prefer to e.g. I’d rather walk than take a bus. I’d rather you knew that now, than afterwards.

Step 5

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.

Period 3

Learning about Language & Grammar Teaching Goals:

1.Enable students to master the usage of the words and expressions 2.The usage of the important words and the-ing form used as subject

and object .

Step 1 Greeting and revision Step 2 Word study

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

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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

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 .

translate them and pay attention to these boldface words .

1…,he cares little about spending the money on himself or leading a comfortable life.

P.10 2. He also doesn’t care about being famous.

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

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

noting .

P.10

B. Complete the sentences with the given

words in proper forms.

1.Fancy Mary _____ (do ) a thing like that !

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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.

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.

Peroid 4 Using Language Reading II

Teaching goals : Enable Ss to master the main idea of the text and know the ways of organizing articles. Help students learn how to enlarge the words and know the ways of the same topic 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

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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.

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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 farming of organic Reasons 1. This makes the soil richer more fertile. 2. Peas and soybeans renew the Soil becomes rich and health3. They plant crops that need scrops that grow at a deeper levwater does not carry away the soof the soil is used. 1.

Farmers use natural waste from animals. 2.

The soil is not exhausted. 3.

They use the soil to best advantage. 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, prie.g. This company tries to increase profits by reducing 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 whilereport. The shop was unable to supply what she wanted. In Britain milk is supplied to each house in bottles4. whatever pron. any or every(thing) e.g. we will be grateful for whatever amount you cab afWhatever 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 referDon’t refer to this mater again.

6. year after year e.g. The villagers plant trees on the hill year after ye

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Step 5 Discussion group work: 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. Period 5 Workbook 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.How to write an attractive poster. 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.

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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

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 This explains that you sell green food. Reasons to buy ( one reason ) ( one reason )] ( one reason ) ( one reason ) Why it is good value. Buy the best fruits here We only sell green food in this shoBest choice at best price! Safe, healthy, clean, fresh. Far awaNo 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 Step Ⅳ 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

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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.

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