1、Unit2 Working the land- Warming Up, Pre-reading and Reading 教案 1 A sample lesson plan for reading (Working the land) Aims To help students develop their reading ability. To help students learn about working the land. Procedures I. Warming up Warming up by questioning Hello, everyone. We shall read a
2、bout man who works the land today. Have you ever grown any plants? If not, what kind of plant would you like to grow? How will you grow it? (For reference: Mr. Li, I worked with my father in the rice field last year. We grow hybrid rice and use animal wastes to make the soil rich.) Has anyone of you
3、 ever been to the countryside? What did you do there? (For reference: I went to Chuankou the day before yesterday. It is a small mountain village 75 li north of Beijing. I went there to visit my uncles family. I like that small beautiful village very much. ) Who are from a farmers family? What do yo
4、u know about farming? (For reference: Mr. Li, Dou Jun and I are from a farmers family in our class. We grow wheat and raise pigs on our farms. And both of our family are going to expand the area of fields this year. ) Warming up seeing and listening Boys and girls, I shall show you some photos of fa
5、rming first. Look at this one. What are these ppeople doing in the fields? Yes, it is spring and they are planting rice. Lots of people in the world live on rice. I think you like eating rice, too. Planting rice Here is another photo about farming. The man driving the tractor in the photo is plowing
6、 the land to prepare for the planting. He does not grow rice there. What kind of crop is he going to plant here? Plowing the land This photo is interesting. The woman farmer from Tibet is harvesting her crops not in the open field but in a plastic house. For generations, the people in Tibet Autonomo
7、us Region, have farmed the land using traditional methods. But in recent years, things have begun to change. All the farmers admitt the new ways are better. Indoor harvesting II. Pre-reading 1. Questioning and answering Rice is main food in South China. What do you think would happen if tomorrow the
8、re was suddenly no rice to eat? (For reference: Then the south people would have to change their eating habit. They could turn to potatoes, wheat flour, cow and sheep cheese, cabbage, onions and garlic for food. They are the bases of the traditional food in North China. ) If you had the chance to do
9、 one thing to help end hunger in the world, what would you do? (For reference: I would try to end hunger by popularizing the advanced farming techniques. Modern techniques could be introduced to increase the rice output, and expand the area of fields.) 2. Giving background information about Professo
10、r Yuan Longping Have you ever heard of a man called Professor Yuan Longping? Would anyone of you tell the class something about him? (For reference: Professor Yuan Longping is a Chinese agricultural scientist. Professor Yuans breakthrough scientific achievement led to the worlds first successful and
11、 widely grown hybrid rice varieties, revolutionizing rice cultivation in China and tripling production over a generation. His approach to rice breeding then spread internationally throughout Asia and to Africa and the Americas, providing food for tens of millions and leading to his becoming known as
12、 the “Father of Hybrid Rice.“ III. Reading 1. Reading aloud to the recording Comprehensionunderstanding what you are readingis important. To read in thought groups is an easy, yet effective, way of improving reading comprehension. Now turn to page 9 and read aloud to the recording of the text A PION
13、EER FOR ALL PEOPLE. Pay attention to the thought groups in the sentences while listening and reading aloud. 2. Reading and underlining Read the text again and underline all the collocations in the passage. You are asked to copy them to your notebook after class as homework. Collocations from A PIONE
14、ER FRO ALL PEOPLE call sb. , regard sb. , work the land, do ones research, for the past five decades, grow hybrid rice, become an agricultural pioneer, have a high output, produce one-third more of the crop, be born into a poor family, graduate from a college, devote ones life to, find ways to do st
15、h., see the great need for doing sth., increase the rice output, search for a way to do sth., increase rice harvests, expand the area of fields, produce tons of rice, feed sb. from a piece of farmland, circulate ones knowledge, thanks to, rid the world of hunger, be satisfied with, care little about
16、, spend money on, lead a comfortable life, have troubles, equip sb. for sth., care about, keep ones time for, play ones violin, play mah-jong, ride ones motorcycle, wish for, in a dream, an ear of rice, a grain of rice, awake from ones dream 3. Reading, identifying and summarizing Attention, please!
17、 It is time to skim the text one more time and identify the topic sentence of each paragraph. (Minutes later) Xue Hongmei, would you read to the class the four topic sentences you identified? What about the main idea of the passage? Who will volunteer to give the class his summary of the main idea?
18、Bai Jianfang, youd like to say something? Go ahead! 4. Understanding difficult sentences In groups of four, analyze the structure of the difficult sentences. If you have any problems which are too difficult for you to solve do not hesitate to put them to me. 5. Reading and transferring In pairs, rea
19、d the text, find information to complete the following form. Facts about Yuan Longping Facts about Yuans super hybrid rice age capacity education application major contribution hobby overseas ideal future IV. Closing down Closing down by doing exercises In the last five minutes lets do the comprehen
20、sion exercises on page 10. Check your answers against your neighbours when you have finished. Closing down by having a dictation To end the period you will take a dictation. It is about Yuan Longping, “Father of Super hybrid rice”. Yuan Longping, Chinas Most Famous “Farmer“ Yuan came up with the ide
21、a of hybridizing rice for the first time in the world in 1960s. Since then, 50 percent of Chinas total rice cultivation fields have grown such rice, which added some 300 billion kilograms to the countrys grain output. Furrows grown on his sunburnt face, a slim figure and coiled-up trousers legs woul
22、d confuse foreign reporters who came to interview the most famous scientist in China, who would rather be called “a farmer.“ Indeed, like many Chinese farmers, Yuan in his 70s and has devoted most of his life growing rice in paddyfields, but unlike those farmers, he reaps the seed from experimental fields only for hybridizing rice.
