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Unit 2 Working the land单元教学目标技能目标Skill GoalsTalk about agriculture: a pioneer in farming -Yuan LongpingTalk about organic farming & green foodHow to write a brief summaryTry to consolidate how to express suggestions & adviceMaster the usage of the -ing form as the subject and objectLearn how to design English postersII 目标语言功能句式建议（ Suggestions & advice）I would rather . If I have a choice Id choose because .I dont like . because . You need to .Id prefer . because .May I suggest .Its a great pity that .Let me suggest Leng Jianli because.Should I/We.? Perhaps we should consider Leng Jianli because.Its better to .But what/how about .词汇1. 四会词汇 Sunburnt, struggle, decade, super, output, crop, hunger, disturbing, expand, Vietman, circulate, satisfied, freedom2. 认读词汇 hybrid, strain, sorghum, peanut, darken, organic, fertilizer, fertile, 3. 词组rid . of, be satisfied with, lead a . life, would rather, refer to, search for, thanks to, wouldrather,语法动词的 -ing 形式作主语和宾语的用法（The -ing form as the subject & object）a. Wishing for things, however, costs nothing.b. His other hobbies include playing mah-jong, swimming and reading. 教材分析与教材重组1 教材分析本单元的中心话题是“农业”， 学生通过讨论和阅读了解有关农业、农村和农作物种植的内容。让学生了解农业在整个人类生活中的重要性，了解农村生活，了解中国农民的生活现状，提高他们对农业的认识，并且帮助他们更深刻地理解农业科学家袁隆平的科学研究的价值。同时让学生了解organic farming 以及它对人们生活的重要性，进一步扩大学生的关于农业方面的词汇量，并通过写一则海报提高学生的写作水平。1.1 WARMING UP 通过提问有关农业、农村和农作物种植的内容，让学生谈谈自己对农村和农业劳动的认识或经验。教师可通过讨论让学生互相学习，相互交流经验以增加他们的农业知识。1.2 PRE-READING 部分有两组问题。在第一组问题中，讨论大米在东亚和东南亚国家人民生活中的重要性；而第二组问题则提出世界部分地区所面临的饥饿问题。由此激发学生对世界的关注，培养学生的同情心。1.3 READING 部分介绍中国著名的农业科学家袁隆平的生平和他的杂交水稻。第一段描述了袁博士的外表他更象一个农民而不象一个科学家，农村就是他做科研的殿堂。他的科研成果就是超级杂交水稻。 第二段描述他的家庭出身，学业，献身水稻科研的原因及所取得的成就。第三段告诉我们袁博士过着跟普通人一样的生活却干着伟大的事业。即使在功成名就之后，他也淡泊名利, 有着无私奉献的高尚精神。1.4 COMPREHENDING 部分设计了三个练习。第一个是判断练习，学生根据课文中理解和收集的信息做出判断，甚至通过讨论才能做出判断。第二个是词语理解题。第三个练习提出问题，要求学生在阅读课文后作出回答,以检验他们的理解力和训练他们的归纳总结能力。 1.5 LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE 部分学习本单元重点词汇和语法项目。词语学习部分采用给出词义而让学生从课文中找出与之匹配的词，然后用所找的词汇完成第二个练习中的短文，以及用课文中意义相近的词汇替换练习三句中划线部分。通过这三种练习帮助学生理解并能熟练应用课文中所学的词汇。语法部分通过从课文中找同义句引出动词的-ing 形式，教师此时可引导学生找出其他的句子，以启发学生理解-ing形式的句法功能。练习二通过模仿例句，用-ing形式做主语代替动词不定式改写句子。练习三要求学生连接短语造句，让学生学习-ing形式作宾语的用法，并列举后面接动词-ing形式作宾语的动词。练习四则训练学生v-ing形式在实际生活中的应用能力。练习五则设计了一个游戏以丰富学生的想象力。1.6 USING LANGUAGE 部分综合训练学生的听说读写能力。第一部分读写结合，学生先阅读文章，文章写的是 Organic Farming or green food,读完后要求学生写一个摘要。在此教师要首先强调写摘要时学生一定要抓住文章的主题并且运用所学的重要词语。听力部分通过回答问题来提高学生的理解能力和理解的正确性。Reading, speaking and writing 部分把读，说和写有机地结合在一起。假设你是一个“绿色食品” farmer，通过背景阅读，你要有充分的理由，利用所提供的句型，以对话的形式说服他人购买你的食品。最后为你的食品设计一个有说服力的广告。1.7 SUMMING UP部分要求学生归纳总结本单元内容、词汇和语法结构三个方面。1.8 LEARNING TIPS 部分对如何提高表达能力提出建议。2. 课型设计与课时分配 1st period Reading2nd period Language points3rd period Learning about Language4th period Grammar5th period Using language 6th period Writing. 分课时教案ReadingTeaching goals 教学目标1. Target Language 目标语言a. 词汇和短语sunburnt, struggle, decade, super, output, crop, hunger, disturbing, expand, Vietnam, circulate, satisfied, freedomb. 重点句子Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger.2. Ability goals 能力目标Enable Ss to learn more about agriculture, countryside and farming. By talking they can exchange their experience with each other. By reading they will realize the role that agriculture plays in human life. In fact this world faces a serious problem starvation. So after reading the passage about Dr Yuan students will know the importance of his achievement to man. Of course they will learn from Dr Yuan some noble character.3. Learning ability goals 学能目标Help Ss learn how to describe Dr Yuan Longping including his personality.Teaching important points 教学重点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 make up their minds to make contributions to motherland in the future like Dr Yuan.Teaching difficult points 教学难点a. How to help students learn more about agriculture.b. Help students really master the usage of words and expressions.Teaching methods 教学方法Talking, questioning-and-answering activity and reading.Teaching aids 教具准备A tape recorder, a projector and a computer.Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式Step GreetingT: Hello, everyone.Ss: Hello, teacher.T: In last unit we learnt some great women. Today well learn a famous man. Who will it be? At first lets 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 Warming upT: 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.S: I never grow any plant. Id like to plant sunflowers. They look beautiful. They always face the sun when they are young. I dig some holes in my garden, put some sunflower seeds in them, water them and finally cover them with some more soil.T: Very well. Have you ever been to the countryside? What did you do there?S5: 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 farmers 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: Thats right. In the north, the biggest worry that farmers have is the drought. When it doesnt rain, and they cant irrigate the crops, the crops will die and they will have nothing after hard working.Step Pre-reading Let students know the importance of rice. By answering the two questions, students can easily understand why we call Dr Yuan Longping a pioneer for all people, and why he devotes all his life to the rice research.1. What is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries?Rice. It is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice every day throughout the world. 2. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? suffer from starvation and starve to death feel scared / be panic fight for food, even kill each other and the whole country would get into trouble.If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do?Step Fast ReadingThe reading material is about an agricultural pioneer named Yuan Longping who worked hard at a new strain of rice. It has proved so successful that his technology spread into other countries. The purpose of fast reading is to let students find some useful information, and get familiar with the text. So in this step, teacher can design some questions for students, so that they can easily find the answers and finish the reading task. He is father of hybrid rice (杂交水稻), who was lately awarded “the Nobel Prize of Asia”. He received the honor for his great contributions (贡献) to hybrid rice research and work he did to improve rice production in developing countries. Now he is head of the National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center in Hunan Province, China (中国湖南省国家杂交水稻研究与发展中心). He is called a pioneer for all people. Step SkimmingThe text is about a(n) 1. _ _ named Yuan Longping who made a great contribution to finding ways to 2. _.Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.Para 1 A. Dr Yuans dreams.Para 2 B. Dr Yuans personality.Para 3 C. Dr Yuans biography.Para 4 D. Dr Yuans appearance and his achievement. Keys: Para 1: D Para 2: C Para 3: B Para 4: AStep Careful reading1. Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks. Yuan LongpingAppearanceu _ face and arms slim and strong body_u developed super hybrid riceu became the first _ in the world to grow high output riceu helps the UN reduce _ in the worldExperiences u born in 1930 and _ from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953u finding ways to grow more rice has been his life _ u to _ his knowledge in less developed countries such as India and VietnamPersonalitiesu is satisfied with his life u doesnt care about being famousu gives a large amount of money to help others to do their _ in agricultureu has many dreams and never gives upu loves and _ his people_u to produce a kind of rice that could _ more peopleu to _ his rice so that it can be grown around the globe Keys: sunburnt, Achievements, agricultural pioneer, hunger, graduated, goal, circulate, research, care for, Dreams, feed, export2. True (T) or False (F):1) Yuan Longping became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow super hybrid rice at the age of 40.2) More than 60% of the rice in the world is from the hybrid strain.3) According to the text, farmers in China are producing rice harvests nearly 4 times as large as that in 1950. Keys: F, F, T3. Choose the best answers.1) What does the word “battle” refer to in the second paragraph?A. The low rice output.B. Ridding the world of hunger.C. Fighting against farming.D. The freedom to do research. 2) From the passage, we can know _.A. Yuan Longping is not a pioneer but a scientist in the research of the hybrid riceB. Yuans parents are both agricultural scientistsC. more than 60% of the rice produced in the world is from the hybrid strainD. using the hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before 3) It can be inferred from the text that _.A. Yuan knew the importance of rice importB. Yuan is interested in playing the violin C. Yuan is proud of his achievementsD. Yuans rice are grown in many countries Keys: C, D, D4. DiscussionEven if Dr. Yuans dreams come true, can this really solve starvation?Step Post readingAnswer these questions based on your understanding of the passage.1. Why did Yuan Longping want to increase the rice output when he was young?2. Is Dr Yuan more of a scientist or more of a farmer? Do you think he is a businessman? 3. How would you describe Dr Yuans personality? Use three or four adjectives.4. What do you think is the main reason for his success?5. Dr Yuan thinks that a person with too much money has more rather than fewer troubles. Do you agree or disagree? Why? 6. Dr Yuan developed super hybrid rice to help Chinese farmers and hungry people around the world. Can you think of any other major development that would make a great difference to world hunger? Keys: 1. Dr Yuan wanted to increase the rice output because he saw many people go hungry when he was young. 2. I think he is more of a scientist. His main purpose is not to make a profit for himself but to study agriculture and use that knowledge to improve farming for farmers everywhere. I do not think he is a businessman, because his goal is not to make money. 3. Because of his work with developing hybrid rice, it seems that Yuan Longping must be a very patient and careful man. He didnt give up but kept working on his project. He also seems to be a very kind man, who cares for others. He wants to use his invention to help hungry people around the world. 4. I think Yuan Longping was successful because he kept working and did not give up. He was also very motivated to succeed and help other farmers around China. 5. I mostly agree. I think being rich can cause a lot of problems, but it really depends on the life and attitude of the person who is rich. People who are rich certainly have different problems from people who are not. 6. I think developing other hybrid grains would make a great difference in the problem of world hunger. Hybrid grains that can survive in very dry or very hot areas would be very useful in Africa and other areas. Hybrid grains that cannot easily be killed by insects and diseases would be useful around the world.Step Discussion1. Choose one of these questions and discuss in groups. 1) What advantages do you see in Yuan Longpings life? 2) What disadvantages do you see in Yuan Longpings life? 2. Discuss in groups. Would you like to have a life like his? Why or why not? Step Homework1. Writing a poster (海报) for the text.2. Finish the exercises 1and 2 on page 11.Language pointsTeaching goals 教学目标1. Target Language 目标语言a. 词汇和短语sunburnt, struggle, decade, super, output, crop, hunger, disturbing, expand, Vietnam, circulate, satisfied, freedomb. 重点句子Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger.2. Ability goals 能力目标Enable Ss to learn language points of the passage.3. Learning ability goals 学能目标Help Ss learn language points.Teaching important points 教学重点a. Help to comprehend the text and grasp the language points.b. Grasp the usage of some words and expressions.Teaching difficult points 教学难点Help students really master the usage of words and expressions.Teaching methods 教学方法Talking, questioning-and-answering activity.Teaching aids 教具准备A computer.Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式StepLanguage points1. for whom he has struggled for the past five decades. struggle vi. 搏斗, 挣扎, 努力, 拼搏e.g. They were struggling to get out the burning car. 他们挣扎着从烧着的车里往外爬。She struggled up the stairs with her heavy bags. 她提着沉重的行李艰难地走上楼梯。struggle n. 努力, 拼搏e.g. We should all believe in ourselves in the struggle of life. Marys struggle with the disease lasted ten years. 搭配 struggle against/with 与斗争struggle for sth. 为争取而奋斗/斗争struggle to do sth. 努力做某事 根据括号内的汉语提示补全句子。1) We should be brave to _ (同做斗争) the difficulty. 2) The _ (斗争) for independence was long and hard. 3) Three brothers _ (为争取而斗争) the possession of a jewelry box.2. Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger. 1) thanks to 表示“幸亏, 多亏”多用于表达正面意思, 相当于感谢, 在句中作状语和表语。 e.g. Thanks to your help, much trouble was saved. 多亏你的帮助, 减少了许多麻烦。 2) rid of 用法 The man rid himself of debt. It is very hard for the people to rid the earth of pollution. rid . of 意为“_”，此时，rid作_词，rid oneself of sb. / sth. 意为“摆脱，从中解脱” Will science finally rid us of this disease? rid sb. / sth. of sb. / sth. 意为“去除，清除”注意 rid还可以作名词, 构成短语get rid of, “摆脱掉、除掉、处理掉”。如:Its easy to get into the habit of taking drugs but hard to get rid of it. We cant get rid of war until we get rid of the causes of war. 完成句子，使其与所给的句子意思相同或相近。1) It is not easy for him to get rid of the bad habit. It is hard for him to _ _ _ the bad habit.2) He plans to give up smoking in two months. He plans to _ _ _ smoking in two months.3. He would much rather keep time for his hobbies.阅读下列句子, 试着归纳would rather的意思及用法。1) I think at the beginning wed rather have some fairly quiet and peacefulmusic.2) Most young people would rather not listen to the Beijing Opera. 3) Would you rather stay here or go home? 归纳 would rather意为 _, 其后接动词原形。拓展would rather . than . 意为“宁愿而不愿”。如：Jack would rather buy a bike than a motorbike. 翻译下列句子。1) 她宁愿死也不愿意投降。2) 我宁愿你现在回家。3) 我宁愿你昨天没做那件事情。4. He therefore gives millions of yuan to equip others for their research in agriculture. 考点 therefore adv. 因此；所以；因而，表示因果关系。考例 Progress so far has been very good. _, we are sure that the project will be completed on time.A. However B. Otherwise C. Therefore D. Besides 点拨 题意是“至今情况进展良好，因此我们确信能按时完成这项工程。” 前后两句为因果关系，故选therefore；however然而，可是；otherwise否则，要不然，二者均表示转折关系；besides而且，也不符合题意。5. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? 点拨 本句中使用了插入语do you think。插入语经常插到一个语法结构完整的句子里去，对句子的内容作一些附加说明，有时表示说话者的态度和看法等，它不和句子的成分发生结构上的关联，常置于句首、句中或句末。把插入语去掉之后，句子的结构和语义还是完整的。 拓展常用于插入语的动词有suppose, know, hope, believe, guess, find, say等。如：You came by air, I suppose.用作插入语的主要有：副词、形容词、介词短语、不定式、动词-ing形式短语和分句。如：Two middle-aged passengers fell into the sea. Unfortunately, neither of them could swim.If she ran towards it, it might attack her. Worse still, it could even carry off the baby in its mouth.Your performance in the driving test didnt reach the required standard in other words, you failed.To be frank with you, I have no money on me. Judging from what he said to me today, his minds made up.It is so nice to hear from her. Belie