Learning about Languageppt配套教案和课堂实录

Unit 2

Working the land

Reading

A Pioneer for all people

Teaching Aims: 1. Know about --------Father of Hybrid Rice

Yuan Longping 2. Use all kinds of reading skills to improve the reading levels. Important and difficult points:

How to improve students’ reading skills Teaching Methods: 1. Reading ways 2. Explanation to make every student have a clear concept. 3. Group work to make every student active. Teaching tools: a blackboard and a computer Teaching Procedures:

Step 1.Greeting and Revision 1.

Greet the students as normal. 2.

Revise the warming up with the following questions 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? How do you think to grow our main food--rice? 1)First, the farmers plow the field. They have to make the soil loose enough to plant crops. 2)Second,,grow some young plants 3)Third, they insert the young plants into the loose field. 4)At last ,they will get the harvest

Step 2 Pre-reading 1 Ask the following questions

1).What’s the main food in Canada and USA:

----- potatoes and bread 2).What is the main food in South America: ----- corn/maize 3)What is the main food in Southeast Asian countries:

----- rice 2 Show the students some pictures and ask the question What is happening to these people in East Asian and Southeast Asian countries? Then show more news like that: International Facts on Hunger and Poverty (2002) 1)Every 8 seconds, a child somewhere in the world dies from starvation.

2)More than 800 million people in the world suffer from malnutrition,799 million of them are from the developing world. More than 153 million of them are under the age of 5. 3.

lead the students to pay attention to the people---Yuan Longping Ask : What do you know about him? --------Father of Hybrid Rice

Then lead to the topic of the reading passage. A Pioneer For All People

Step 3

Skimming Read the passage quickly and answer the questions 1. When and who did become the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output? 2. What did Yuan Longping invent? Step 4

Scanning

Find out the main idea of each paragraph

Para1

A. Dr Yuan’s dreams.

Para2

B. Dr Yuan’s personality.

Para3

C. Dr Yuan’s biography.

Para4

D. Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement

Step 5

Careful reading Read each paragraph and answer the following questions: Para 1:

Dr Yuan’s appearance and achievement

1.What dose Dr. Yuan look like?

2.What is his achievement? Para 2:

Dr Yuan’s biography a. He was born into a poor farmer’s family in 1930.

b. He graduated from Southwest Agriculture college.

c. In 1950, Chinese farmers

produced 5.5 billion tons of rice.

d. 20 billon tons of rice was produced by growing his hybrid rice.

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

fields.

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

Proper order:

Para. 3 Dr Yuan’s personality What kind of life is Dr. Yuan leading? Para. 4 Dr Yuan’s dream

What is Dr Yuan’s dream?

Para 5

Summary of Dr Yuan’s personal information (Resume)

Step 6

Post reading

①________ he is one of China’s most famous scientists, Yuan Longping considers ②________ a farmer, for he works the land to do his research. Indeed, his ③________(sunburn) face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like those of millions of Chinese farmers, for ④________ he has struggled for the past five decades. DrYuan Longping grows what is called super hybrid rice. In 1974, he ⑤________(become) the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has ⑥________ high output. This special strain of rice makes ⑦________ possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields. Now more than 60% of the rice ⑧________(produce) in China each year is from this hybrid strain. Born into a poor farmer’s family in 1930, Dr Yuan graduated ⑨________ Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Since then, finding ways ⑩________(grow) more rice has been his life goal.

Step 7

Discussion At last ask the students to discuss: 1..What is happening to these people? 2. If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger ,what would you do ? Encourage the students to tell their opinions, Then give a conclusion:

The only way to solve the food shortage problem is to increase the output of the grain crop through the advancement of science and technology.

Homework

Writing

If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger , what would you do ?