B4U2 Working the land教案

An English Teaching Plan

Teacher: Chen Jingjing

Content: Unit 2 Working the land (The First Period——Reading) Teaching goals:

1. Understand some information about farming.

2. Understand the text well and know more information about Long Longping.

3. Improve the skills of speaking and reading. Teaching important points:

1.Talk about some information about Long Longping to improve their speaking ability.

2. Get Students to learn different reading skills. Teaching difficult points:

How to express their own opinions. Teaching methods：

1. Task-based teaching methods. 2. Question-and-answer methods. 3. Individual, pair or group work.

4. Discussion and cooperative learning. Teaching aids:

1. The blackboard

2. A multi-media classroom Teaching procedures: Step 1 Lead-in.

Show a Poem By Li Shen and enable the students to understand the farmers’ hard work in the field.

Farmers weeding at noon, sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray, due to their toiling day. Step 2 Warming up

1. Brainstorming: What will you think of when you see the word “farming”?

2. Do you know these crops?

3. Rice plays a very important role in our daily life.

Step 3 Pre-reading

1. Watch a video (What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?What is happening to these children?)

suffer from starvation and starve to death feel scared / be panic (惊慌)

fight for food, even kill each other

and the whole country would get into trouble. Sum up :Hunger is a disturbing problem in our world.

2. How to rid the world of hunger?

Yuan Longping: Super Hybrid Rice——the rice that has a high output

Step 4. Reading 1. Skimming

(1)The main idea of the text and each paragraph

(2) Match the following headings with the right paragraphs. Para1 A. Dr Yuan’s dreams. Para2 B. Dr Yuan’s personality. Para3 C. Dr Yuan’s life experience.

Para4 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement. 2. Careful reading

Para1: appearance and achievement

1. 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.

2. What's his achievement?

He grows what is called super hybrid rice, and became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output.

Para2: life experience

Put the following sentences in right order.

a. He was born into a poor farmer’s family . b. He graduated from Southwest Agriculture college. c. Chinese farmers produced fifty million tons of rice.

d. He searched for a way to increase rice outputs without expanding

the area of fields.

e. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries.

Proper order:a c b d e Para3: Personality and Hobbies

Personality: He doesn’t care about money and being famous. He likes freedom for his research and hobbies.

Hobbies: listening to violin music, playing mah-jong, swimming and reading Para4: Dreams

The first dream: describe the rice in Dr. Yuan’s dream: As tall as sorghum /As big as a corn /As huge as a peanut

The second dream: to export his rice so that it can be grown around the globe.

Step5. Summary

Yuan Longping is one of China’s most famous scientists. Born in 1930, Dr. Yuan graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. At that time, hunger was a disturbing problem in many parts of the countryside. Since then, finding ways to grow more rice has been his life goal. In 1974, he invented super hybrid rice and became the first agricultural pioneer in the world. Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger. Dr Yuan is now circulating his knowledge in many less developed countries. Step6. Discussion

If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do? How to solve hunger?

——invent a new kind of plant to produce more food. ——make good use of the waste land ——develop the science and technology

——stop the pollution to the environment and protect the soil in the field.

——prevent the pests from eating our crops ——improve the quality of the soil

Step7. Homework

1.According to what we discussed, write an essay——how to save food?

2.Give a brief introduction about Yuan Longping : according to the questions on page 11.

Blackboard design(板书设计)：

Unit2 Working the land

Para1: appearance/achievement Para2: life experience Para3: personality Para4: dreams farmer: Yuan longping

Super Hybrid Rice Farming

crop rice hunger