高中英语人教版必修四Unit 2 Working the land Reading Apioneer for all people教学设计

Unit 2 Working the land
Period1 Reading: A pioneer for all people
Teaching aims
Knowledge aims:
1) words and expressions: 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
2) important sentences;
3) knowledge of the topic :to learn sth. About Yuan Longping and his great achievement
Ability aims:
1) To do some reading to further develop Ss’ reading abilities like skimming, scanning and summarizing etc.
2) To help develop Ss’ good reading habits.
Emotional aims:
To help ss have a better understanding of the great value of the scientific research done by Dr Yuan Longping.
To cultivate ss’ sense of sympathy and humanism.
To get them to learn some noble character from Dr Yuan.
Teaching key points:
1)To get ss to read the text and learn something about the scientist, his great achievements and his personality.
2) To improve ss’ reading skills.
Teaching difficult points:
How to help develop their ability of analyzing some difficult sentences.
How to help them to form a good habit of reading.
How to improve their ability of outlining the main idea of the whole text or each paragraph.
Teaching method:
Task-based language teaching and discussion
Teaching aids:
Students” learning paper, blackboard
教学过程
Step1. Greeting
Step2. Lead in
Show some pictures of the hungry people.
T: Q1. What happen to them
Q2. How to solve the problem
Ss: They are hungry and very slim, they will starve to death. They need food to feed themselves. The Africa countries are lack of food to feed their people.
Ss: Cherish food and produce more food.
T: Very good. There is a great person in our country who works hard in the field to produce more food (especially the rice) to help these hungry people. He is the father of the super hybrid rice. Do you know who he is --------Yuan Longping
Today we will learn Unit 2 Working the land, the reading passage :
A pioneer for all people tell us something about Yuan Longping, let’s look at it.
Step3. Reading
Task1. Fast reading
Read the text quickly and fill in the blanks to get the main idea of the passage
The text is about an agricultural pioneer --- _____________working hard to produce a ___________ rice.
Task2. Understanding the outline
Activity 1 Read the text quickly and find out which of the following best shows the structure of the passage.(①--④= Paragraph1—Paragraph4)
Activity 2 Match the smaller heading to each paragraph
Task 3 Jigsaw reading(拼图式阅读)
Jigsaw reading（拼图式阅读法）是通过学生之间的信息差来引发学生阅读交流的兴趣，通过合作学习来完成阅读任务的一种有效的教学策略，它有助于降低学习的难度，集思广益，增强自信心。
Step 4 Group work
Make a card to introduce Dr. Yuan in a group of four people.
Step 5 Presentation
After making the card in a group, ask the representative of each group to take turns to have a report in class.
Step 6 Discussion
Q: If you had a chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do
Step 7 Enjoying
Sympathy for the Peasants
Farmers weeding at noon,
Sweet down the field soon.
Who knows food on a tray,
Due to their toiling day.
Step 8 Summary
Step 9 Homework
Write a short passage about what you would do to help end hunger in the world
Read the passage carefully and find out the important language points and sentence pattern.
Step10 Self-assessment
The Things I Can Do Evaluation
I have the general idea and outline of the text now. 5 4 3 2 1
I know what qualities of Dr. Yuan impress me most. 5 4 3 2 1
I have mastered the reading strategies learnt in class. 5 4 3 2 1
I can combine reading with speaking and writing. 5 4 3 2 1
I have analyzed and improved my study methods. 5 4 3 2 1
I am active and intelligent in class performance. 5 4 3 2 1
I work with my group members well to solve problems. 5 4 3 2 1
I can give my classmates some useful help and tips. 5 4 3 2 1
I have made progress and experienced success. 5 4 3 2 1
Blackboard writing design
Unit 2 Working the land
A pioneer for all people
Yuan Longping--- super hybrid rice