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Teaching plan of Book4 Unit 2 Chemical or organic farming? By Liu Rong Teaching Content: Unit 2 Chemical or organic farming?

Teaching Aims: 1.Knowledge aim：By the end of the lesson, Ss will have a better understanding of the meaning and structure of the text. Then Ss will be able to use some useful words and expressions such as: chemical, organic, build up, lead to, focus on, reduce, keep…free from

2. Ability aim: The main objective of reading course is that students will be able to adopt reading skills such as scanning, skimming, information-gathering, summarizing and guessing the new words in their reading. 3. Emotional aim: The emotion objective is that students will have the awareness of organic farming and food safety. Teaching Focuses:

How to improve students’ reading skills as scanning, skimming, information-gathering and summarizing.

Difficult Points:

they are the same as the important ones.

Teaching and

Learning

Methods:

Task-based learning, Situation, Discussion Teaching Aids: Multimedia Teaching Procedure:

Step I: Lead-in: Show the students a piece of video to arouse their interest, and then talk about food safety and organic farming.

Step II: Fast reading 1、skimming for answers of the two questions. 1) What is organic farming? 2) What is the goal of using organic farming methods?

2、underline the topic sentences of each paragraph and scanning for the Main ideas of each paragraph . Step III: Detailed reading Gather the information and finish two charts. 1)

Chemical farming advantages

problems

cause

1、stop crop

disease

damage

the

land

2、increase

production

affect crops…

by killing

by staying…

lead to cancer/illnesses

by

building up

have less

nutrition

2) Organic

farming by growing

too fast

methods

Step IV: Language points

Step V: Summary

advantages

Retell the passage in their own words and talk about the structure of the passage. Step VI: Homework. Write a passage titled “PLASTIC OR CLOTH BAGS?”

Writing on blackboard:

Unit 2 Chemical or organic farming?

Feedback :

I.Learning steps :

II. The structure of Skimming the passage : 1.

illustration

Scanning

Detailed reading 2.

comparison Language points 3.

conclusion Summary

Homework