高中英语Unit 2 Working the landThe First Period Readin

高中英语Unit 2 Working the landThe First Period Reading教案新
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课型设计与课时分配：
The first period: Reading
The second period Words and Grrmmar
The third period Extensive Reading
The four period Listening
The five period Writing
The six period Summary
The First Period Reading
Teaching goals
1.Target Language
a.词汇和短语
sunburn, struggle, super, expand, circulate, equip, export, rid…of, be satisfied with, lead a…life, search for, would rather, thanks to, with the hope of, rather than
b.重点句子
This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields. P10
He cares little about spending the money on himself or leading a comfortable life. P10
He also doesn’t care about being famous. P10
He feels it gives him less freedom to do his research. P10
His other hobbies include playing mah-jong, swimming and reading. P10
Wishing for things, however, costs nothing. P10
2. Ability goals
Enable students 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
Help students learn how to describe Dr Yuan Longping including his
personality.
A.Teaching important points
1. Help to comprehend the text and grasp the main idea of the text.
2.Grasp the usage of some words and expressions.
3.How to help students make up their minds to make contributions to motherland in the future like Dr Yuan.
B.Teaching difficult points
1.How to help students learn more about agriculture.
2.Help students really master the usage of words and expressions.
C.Teaching aids
A tape recorder, a projector and a computer.
D. Teaching procedures & ways
Step 1 Greeting and leading in
look at the two pictures on Page 9 and answer the questions:
1. What are the people doing?
2.Can you tell me something about rice?
.Step 2 Warming up
1.Discussion: (group work)
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?
Step 3 Pre-reading
The purpose of this step is to 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 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 famine in the world, what
would you do?
Step 4 Fast Reading
The purpose of fast reading is to let students find some useful information, and get familiar with the text. So in this step, teacher designs some questions
for students, so that they can easily find the answers and finish the reading task.
1. What does Dr Yuan look like?
2. What’s his achievement?
3. What do you think of him?
Step 5 Careful Reading and Explanation
1.Give students 3 minutes to read and find the main idea of the text. While students are doing this, teacher show the chart on the screen. After they have finished their task, ask them to look at the screen and fill in it.
Show the chart on the screen.
A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE
1.He wants everyone to call him a farmer.
2.His biography.
3.His personality.
4.His dreams.
Five minutes later, teachers can ask some of them to fulfil the chart. They can use words, phrases, or sentences to do this. Here is a sample for teacher to refer to.
A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE
1. He wants everyone to call him a farmer.
(1) A scientist works the land.
(2) Sunburnt face and arms, slim, strong body.
(3) Grow hybrid rice.
(4) The first agricultural pioneer.
2. His biography.
(1) In 1931, born.
(2) In 1953, graduated and devoted his life to finding ways to
grow rice.
(3) Last year, twenty billion tons of rice was produced. Now,
Dr Yuan is circulating his knowledge.
3. His personality.
He is satisfied with his life. Because he doesn’t like money and fame.
4. His dreams.
(1) The first dream.
(2) The second dream.
nguage points:
1)“…for that’s how he regards himself”.
“how he regards himself”, means how he thinks of himself. It refers to a person’s self-image .
2) “…has more, rather than fewer troubles.”?
while “…has more, rather than fewer troubles” means that you expect fewer troubles but in face you get more than you thought you would.
3)struggle v to make great efforts
e.g. They have struggled for years to free their country from the enemy.
I’m struggling to finish the huge helping you gave me.
4)sunburnt adj sun-tanned
e.g. His sunburnt skin looks healthy.
5)super adj (infml) excellent; splendid
e.g. You’ll like her, she’s super.
You look super in your new clothes.
It was super of you to help.
6)expand v
(cause sth to) become greater in size, number or importance
e.g. Metals expand when they are heated.
Why not try to expand your story into a novel?
7)circulate v
(cause sth to) pass from one person, place, etc to another
e.g. People who circulate false news are to be blamed.
Yet reports of this kind have been circulated by our newspapers.
The news of the enemy’s defeat quickly circulated round the town.
7)equip v
supply sb/sth (with what is needed, for a particular purpose)
e.g. Now all fishing boats are radio-equipped.
They can’t afford to equip their army properly.
Please equip yourself with sharp pencil and a rubber for the exam.
9)export v
send(goods) to another country for sale
e.g. India exports tea and cotton to many different countries.
This company has a large home market but doesn’t export.
10) rid…of make sb/sth free from(sb/sth unpleasant)
e.g. We all wish that we would rid the world of famine.
The farmer recently tried to rid the house of rats.
11)lead… a life, live… a life
e.g. Now we are leading a happy life.
In the old days farmers led a terrible life in the country.
12) be satisfied with, be content with
e.g. The young lady isn’t satisfied with the peaceful life.
Are you satisfied with his answers?
13) would rather, prefer to
e.g. I’d rather walk than take a bus.
I’d rather you knew that now, than afterwards.
Step 5 Listening and Post-reading
At first, let students listen to the tape, and then finish the exercise in Comprehending. In Step IV and V, we have involved some questions in Exercise 3, so teachers can choose some questions to do. For Exx 1 and 2, teachers can leave some time for students to finish and then check the answers with the whole class.
Step 6 Summary and Homework
Today we talked about agriculture. And we also read about Dr Yuan Longping.
We have known much about the great scientist. OF course we have learned some words and expressions about farming. Please try to grasp these words and expressions after class. Now please look at the poem on the screen:
Farmers weeding at noon,
Sweat down the field soon.
Who knows food on a tray,
Due to their toiling day.
Do you know it? Read it and say whot does it mean?
(It’s 悯农 written by Li Shen.)
The title is A HARD-WORKING FARMER. This is my gift to you. Please read it together. OK, hope you can remember it when you are having your dinners.
Besides, I’d like you to think: even if Dr Yuan’s dreams come true, can this really solve the starvation? Why? This is the homework. Think it over. Next time I’ll ask some of you to give your opinion in the class. Another one is to finish the exercises in learning about Language. Exercise 1,2 and 3 are about useful words and expressions. Finish them.。