Learning about Language优秀公开课教案

Working the land Teaching goals Enable Ss to learn more about agriculture, countryside and farming. Help Ss learn how to describe Dr Yuan Longping including his personality. Teaching important and difficult points a. Help to comprehend the text and grasp the main idea of the text. b. Grasp the usage of some words and expressions. c. How to help students learn more about agriculture. Teaching methods Talking, questioning-and-answering activity and reading. Teaching aids A tape recorder, a projector and a computer. Step Ⅰ

Greeting and leading in T: Hello, everyone. Ss: Hello, teacher. T: In last unit we learnt some great women. Today we’ll learn a famous man. Who will it be? At first let’s look at the two pictures on Page 9. What are the people doing?

Ss: They are planting rice. T: Can you tell me something about rice? S: Rice grows in the south. S: But in some place of the north we can also find rice. T: Yeah. You are right. In fact rice is a cereal grain that has been grown for at least 5,000 years and is eaten by 2.4 billion people everyday throughout the world. In Australia, farmers have had to struggle with their harsh environment to grow rice. Ss: Really? Step Ⅱ

Warming up T: 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? S: I have ever grown corn and potatoes. In autumn, my father and I ploughed the soil deep for the first time, then in the next spring, we ploughed the soil for a second time, this time I put the corn seeds into the tunnel following my father. Finally my father covered the corn seeds by ploughing again. T: Very well. Have you ever been to the countryside? What did you do there? S: Yes, I went there to see my grandfather. In the village I played with other boys in the little stream and caught little fish. I even helped my grandfather get in the corn by cutting the corn stems, which made me tired. T: Are you from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming?

S: Yes, my father is a farmer. In my view, farming is hard work. People have to plant crops, smooth away weeds and get in the crops at the right time. They have to get up early to work in the field so as to protect themselves from the sunshine. T: That’s right. In the north, the biggest worry that farmers have is the drought. When it doesn’t rain, and they can’t irrigate the crops, the crops will die and they will have nothing after hard working. 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 Organization (WHO) One billion people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition. About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes. Three- fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five. -http://www.thehungersite.com 2. What can we do to solve world hunger? Control the population

Open more areas for growing

Increase the output of crops

Step Ⅳ Fast Reading 1 What is the main idea of each para? Para1 His dreams Para2 His personality Para3 How he thinks of himself and his achievement para4 His biography (4,3,1,2) 2 Listen to the tape and complete the following notes about Yuan Long ping. Name :______________________ Nationality: ____________________ Age:_______________________ Occupation: ____________________ Education: __________________________________________________ Dream : ____________________________________________________ Achievement : _______________________________________________ Hobbies : ___________________________________________________ Answers: Yuan Longping Chinese 77 scientist/farmer graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953 to export his hybrid rice so that it can be grown around the globe in 1974,developed hybrid rice ,which produces1/3 more than normal rice listening to violin music,playing mah-jong ,swimming and reading Step V Please read the text again and answer these questions. 1 What is special about his rice? (make it possible to do …) This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields. 2 What is his contribution to the world? (thanks to … / rid … of …)

Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger. 3 What is his attitude to life? (be satisfied with … / care about …)

Dr Yuan is satisfied with his life. However, he doesn’t care about being famous.

Step VI Homework Finishing the exercises in Learning about Language. Exercise 1, 2 and 3 are about useful words and expressions. Finish them. Next time we’ll check the answers. Ok, class is over. See you next time.