working-the-land-教案.doc

教案英语必修四第二单元Working the Land第一课时组别：英语组年级：高一级姓名：.Teaching Plan一：Teaching content:Warming up, Pre-reading and Reading二：Teaching aims: Knowledge aim: Enable students to get the general idea of the passage and learn more about agriculture, farming and countryside. Ability aim: To train students abilities to do fast reading and detail reading.Emotion aim: Make students realize the role agriculture plays in human life, Dr Yuans achievement to human beings and learn from his noble character.三：Teaching key points and difficult points:1, How to improve students skill to find the answer quickly and correctly and their abilities to find the detail information.2, How to cultivate students consciousness to respect agriculture and cherish food.四: Teaching methods:Task-based method, discussion, canning, skimming 五:Teaching aidsmultimedia, blackboard, PPT.六：Teaching procedures:Step one: lead in (2minutes)Show student a poem by Li Shen and let them compete with each other to see who can translate it quickly and correctly. Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray, Due to their toiling day.（锄禾日当午，汗滴禾下土，谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦）Step two: warming up（7mimutes）Tell students the main idea of the poem and then ask them if they know how to grow grain?Show them the pictures of the procedure of growing grain. Teach them to read and remember the phrases, then use flow diagram to consolidate their memories.Show the steps: 1)plough the fields 2) seed3) insert the young plants into the fields 4) fertilize5) irrigate6)harvestStep three: Pre-reading (6minutes)1) Discussion : 1. Rice is our main food. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? 2. If you had the chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world, what would you do? How to solve hunger?（possible answers: making good use of the waste land，developing the technology to make a kind of fertilizer to give rice enough nutrition and let them grow quickly and have high product，inventing a new kind of food，improving the quality of the soil ，preventing the pests from eating our crops）2）predictionLook at the title and the picture of the passage and try to predict what the passage is talking about.Step four : While- reading (30minutes)1) ListeningListen to the tape and try to find out the main idea of the passage by choosing the best choice.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 famousC. an agricultural pioneer named Yuan Longping who worked hard to produce a new strain(种类, 品种) of rice D. a new strain of rice which is called super hybrid rice 2). Skimming and scanning Pairwork：read the passage quickly and try to find out the main idea of each paragraph.A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLEPara. 1 Dr Yuans appearance and his achievement. Para. 2 Dr Yuans biography(传记).Para. 3 Dr Yuans personalityPara. 4 Dr Yuans dreams. Scan the text, try to find out some information of the hero.NameYuan LongpingAge85Jobagriculture scientist Educationcollege graduate, a doctor Achievementinventing hybrid riceHobbiesviolin , play mah-jong, swimming, reading3). Careful reading: Read each paragraph carefully then answer the following questions:Para1Q1: What does Dr Yuan look like?(He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim, strong body. He is more like a farmer than a scientist.)Q2: What is his achievement? (He grows what is called super hybrid rice, which makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields.)Para 2:1. Why did Dr. Yuan want to increase the rice output when he was young?(Because at that time, hunger was a serious problem in many parts of the countryside. He saw many people were suffered from hunger when he was young.)2. How does he help rid the world of hunger? (He works hard to produce the hybrid rice that has a high output.)3. Put Dr Yuans biography in right order: (a-c b-e-d-f)a. He was born into a poor farmers 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.Para 3:Which of the following description about Dr Yuans personality(个性) is not true? ( A )A. He is satisfied with his life because he is now rich and famous. B. He cares little about money and fame（名声）.C. He would rather work than lead a comfortable life.D. He enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people.Para4: 1. What does “Wishing for things, however, costs nothing.” mean?(answer: Dreams are free and everybody can have ideas about what they would like their future life to be.)2. What did Dr Yuans rice look like in his dream? (answer: The rice plants were as tall as sorghum. Each ear of rice was as big as an ear of corn and each grain of rice was as huge as a peanut.)2. Dr Yuan has dreams not only when he is _ but also when he is_. (answer: awake -asleep)Step five: Homework:1) thinking What good qualities do you think Dr Yuan have as a great scientist ? If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do ? 2) Read the text carefully and we will fill the blank according to the text in the next class.Famous scientist as he is，Yuan Longping considers himself a farmer. As a young man，Yuan Longping saw the great need for increasing the rice _1_.At that time，_2_ was a disturbing problem in China. He wanted to increase rice harvests without _3_the area of the field