Learning about Language教案2

Unit2 Working the land

Period1 Warming up and reading Learning aims:

1. Grasp some important words and phrases;

2. Learn something more about Yuan Longping and his achievement; 3. Improve reading ability and understand the passage. Step1. Warming-up 1.

Enjoy a poem by Li Shen Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat（汗水）down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray, Due to their toiling day. 2.

Do you know about “farming”? What kind of crops do you know?

Step2. Pre-reading 1.

Rice is the main food in some countries. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?

2.

Look at the title and the picture of the passage and predict this passage is going to talk about? Then skim the passage to check if you were right.

3.

Words preview

sunburnt:

brown (skin) from spending too much time in the sun rid…of:

to make something or somebody free of expand:

to become larger in size, number or amount circulate:

to make information and ideas known to many people struggle: to try extremely hard to achieve something export:

to send things to foreign countries for sale crop:

plants grown in large amounts by farmers

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thanks to:

because of

Step3. Fast-reading

1. Match the following headings(标题)to each paragraph. Para1

A. Dr Yuan’s dreams.

Para2

B. Dr Yuan’s personality.

Para3

C. Dr Yuan’s biography(传记). Para4

D. Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement 2. 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

Step4. Careful reading Para1 His appearance and achievement Q1: What does Dr Yuan look like?

Q2: What is his achievement?

True or False: 1. Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist.

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) 2. Dr Yuan’s kind of rice is the most suitable for China’s farmland.

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) Para2 Put Dr Yuan’s biography in right order.

a. He was born into a poor farmer’s family

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 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: 1. (

) 2. (

) 3.(

) 4.(

) 5.(

) 6.(

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Para.4 His dreams

1) The first dream:

2) The second dream:

Step 5 Discussion Discuss in groups: What can we learn from Dr Yuan? You can use some adjectives to describe him, for example: devoted, selfless and so on. He was

Step 6

Summary

Retell the text by filling in the blanks Yuan Longping is known as China’s “father of ______ rice”. Because Yuan Longping grows what is called _____ hybrid rice. Yuan Longping, who was born into a poor ______’s family in _____, __________from Southwest Agricultural College in _____. When Yuan Longping saw the great need for __________ the rice output, he _________ for a way to increase rice harvests without _________ the area of the fields. Using his hybrid rice, _______ are producing harvests ______ as large as before. He became the ______ agricultural _______ in the world to grow rice that has a high ______. Yuan devoted himself to the research into agriculture.

Step7 Homework 1. Underline the important words, expressions and sentences in the passage and learn them by heart.

2. Suppose you were Dr Yuan’s daughter or son. Introduce your “father” to your classmates. You may use 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

would rather

dream of doing sth

hobbies

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短文改错

A One night, Mr. Green went to a store to buy the shirt. The salesgirl showed him several shirts to choose. He had no idea which one would suit him. At last, he had made up his minds to buy an expensive shirt, thinking that it might go well with his new trousers. On his way home, he was very exciting. However, when he got up the next day, tried the shirt and looked at it this way and that, his excitement was gone away. He found it was not so nice to look at home than it is in the store. Knowing that he couldn’t possible change it, he thought he had better put it away and use it in the future. B When I was young, I didn’t know what friendship. When I stayed with my friends, a warm feeling came out of the bottom from my heart. Now I have grown up and got many friend. And I have been tasted the pleasant feeling of friendship. When I am happy, they are also happy and shared the happiness with me. When I make progress, they will be very exciting. Instead, when I am in a difficult situation, they will offer help to me. So friendship is never an one-way ticket. If we want to get it, we must treat others good at first. We should always be ready to help others, especially that they are in difficult situations.

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