Unit2《Workingtheland》教案.doc

1、Welcome to TopSage-大家论坛欢迎您的光临-Club.TopSwww.TopS(大家网，给大家提供免费的资料)Unit2 Working the landPeriod 1 Warming up and pre-reading. Step 1 Lead-in. Poem By Li Shen Farmers weeding at noon,Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray,Due to their toiling day. Then let one student recite the poem in Chin

2、ese.Step 2 Warming up by questioningHello, everyone. We shall read about 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 r

3、ice and use animal wastes to make the soil rich.)Has anyone of you 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 beautif

4、ul village very much. )Who are from a farmers family? What do you know about farming?Step 3 Pre-reading and talking Questioning and answeringRice is main food in South China. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?Welcome to TopSage-大家论坛欢迎您的光临-Club.TopSwww.TopS(

5、大家网，给大家提供免费的资料)(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 one thing to help

6、 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.)Giving background information about Professor Yuan LongpingHave you

7、 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 widely grown hybrid rice

8、 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 the “Father of Hybrid Ri

9、ce.“Step 4. ReadingReading aloud to the recordingComprehensionunderstanding 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 PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE. Pay atte

10、ntion to the thought groups in the sentences while listening and reading aloud. Welcome to TopSage-大家论坛欢迎您的光临-Club.TopSwww.TopS(大家网，给大家提供免费的资料)A brief introduction: Yuan Longping is known as Chinas “father of hybrid rice”. Its said that in China, we eat depending on “Two Ping” - Deng Xiaoping, who m

11、ade the policy of System of Production Responsibility, & Yuan Longping, who invented hybrid rice. Yuan Longping, who was born in September, 1930, graduated from Agriculture Department in Southwest Agricultural Institute. He has been working on agriculture education & the research into hybrid rice si

12、nce he left the institute. In the 1960s, when China was suffering from serious famine, he came up with the idea of hybrid rice, which has a high yield ( or output). Ten years later, he succeeded in inventing a new species that produced a 20 percent higher yield than common types of rice. Yuan devoted himself to the research into agriculture, & was honored by UNESCO & FAO(联合国教科文组织）. Although he is 74 years old, he is still working on the research into agriculture.