教学设计
Unit2 Working the land Period 1 Reading
A pioneer for all people
Analysis for the teaching material
1.This reading is about an agricultural pioneer named Yuan Longping who worked hard to produce a new strain of rice.
2.Yuan Longping has achieved two things: to produce better rice so no one need go hungry again and to spread his knowledge to other countries.
3. Yuan Longping’s hobbies are listening to violin music, playing mah-jong, swimming and reading.
Analysis for students
Students are familiar with Yuan Longping and his super hybrid rice.
Students are able to read most of the words in this unit fluently.
Students do not know much detailed information about Yuan Longping.
Teaching aims
1.Students master detailed information about Yuan by skimming and scanning the passage.
2.Students are able to describe him by learning detailed information.
3.Students are encouraged to make use of passage information by organizing a prepared interview.
4.Students develop more love for others and the world by appreciating Yuan’s selflessness
Teaching emphases and difficulties
Teaching emphases:
Students get the hang of specific reading strategies better.
Teaching difficulties:
Students take part in the interview actively and express themselves using detailed information in the passage.
Teaching methods:
Discussion/Reading/Speaking
Teaching procedure
Step one: Lead-in
Step two: Skimming
Step three: Scanning
Step four: Self-assessment
Step five: Group work
Step1:Lead-in
Do you know what is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries?
What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?
I f we want enough food, what should we do?
Step 2：Skimming
Go through the passage to catch the general idea of each paragraph.
Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.
Para1 A Dr Yuan’s dreams.
Para2 B Dr Yuan’s personality and hobbies
Para3 C Dr Yuan’s biography
Para4 D Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement
Step 3：Scanning
Read the passage carefully and grasp the information you need.
Para.1 Fill in the blanks
His appearance and achievement
Appearance : He has a _________ face and arms; a______but _______body. He is more like a _______ than a scientist.
Achievement : He developed _______________ which makes it possible to produce________ more of the crop in the same fields.
Para.2 Put Dr Yuan’s life experience in right order.
a. He was born into a poor farmer’s family .
b. He graduated from Southwest Agricultural college.
c. In 1950, Chinese farmers produced 50 milliontons of rice.
d. 200 millon tons of rice was produced by growing his hybrid rice.
e. He searched a way to increase rice harvests without expanding the area of fields.
f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries.
Proper order: （ ）--（ ）--（ ）--（ ）--（ ）--（ ）
Para.3 Listen to the tape carefully and answer the following questions.
1. What is Dr Yuan’s attitude towards money and fame?
____________________________________________________________________________
2.Which would Dr Yuan rather do, work or lead a comfortable life? ?
______________________________________________________________________________
3.What are Dr Yuan’s hobbies?
______________________________________________________________________________
Para.4 Find out his two dreams
The first dream: ______________________________________________________________________________
The second dream: ____________________________________________________________________________
Step 4：Self-assessment. Fill in the blanks
Dr Yuan Longping is a pioneer of agriculture in China. He(1)____________（graduate） from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Since then he devoted his life to (2)_________（find）ways to grow more rice and succeeded. The rice farmers are now producing harvests twice (3)__________large as before by growing his super hybrid rice.(4)_________he was not satisfied with his work.Although now he leads a rich life, he still insists on (5)_______(he) work to develop his rice. His work is(6) (real) important to the world. Because of his hard work, the(7) (produce)of food has been improved.And the problem of (8) (hungry)can be solved. It was thanks to Dr Yuan’s great work (9) millions of people can benefit (10)_______ his extraordinary work.
Step 5：Group work---An interview
Let the students act as an reporter, his partner act as Dr Yuan
Homework:
1.Surf the Internet to find more information about Yuan Longping and his achievements.
2.Think over and write down some measures to rid the world of hunger.
课件31张PPT。 课题：Module 4 unit 2 Reading 学科：高中英语 年级：高一年级 教材：人民教育出版社Lead-inLead-inLead-inLead-inLead-inLead-inLead-inLead-inRice is the main food in our daily life.
It is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice everyday throughout the world. Do you know?Lead-in To our sadness，more than 800 million people across the world are suffering from hunger!Lead-inA Chinese “farmer” is helping the hungry people. Who is he?Yuan Longping Father of Hybrid Rice the rice that has a high outputSuper Hybrid RiceA Pioneer For All People According to the title, What may be the writing style of this passage?
A. story
B. Travel journal.
C. Biography
PredictSkimmingGo through the passage quickly to catch the main idea of each paragraph.Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.Dr Yuan’s dreams.Dr Yuan’s personality and hobbies.Dr Yuan’s biography.Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement.DABCPara1Para2Para3Para4Reading ---skimming ScanningRead the passage aloud to find out the detailed information .He has a _________face and arms;
a______but _______body.
He is more like a _______ than a scientist.He developed _______________ which makes it possible to produce ________ more of the crop in the same fields.Fill in the blanks AppearanceAchievementsunburntslimstrongfarmer20% super hybrid rice Para.1His appearance and achievementReading---scanninga. He was born into a poor farmer’s family .
b. He graduated from Southwest Agricultural college.
c. In 1950, Chinese farmers produced 50 million tons of rice.
d. 200 millon tons of rice was produced by growing his hybrid rice.
e. He searched a way to increase rice harvests without expanding the area of fields.
f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries.
Proper order: Put Dr Yuan’s life experience in right order. cbedfReading---scanningPara.2a1. What is Dr Yuan’s attitude towards money and fame?
2.Which would Dr Yuan rather do, work or lead a comfortable life? ?
3.What are Dr Yuan’s hobbies?He doesn’t care about being famous or money. He would rather work than lead a comfortable life.He enjoys listening to violin music, playing mah-jong, swimming and reading.Reading---scanningPara.3Answer the following questions. Find out his two dreamsPara.4Reading---scanning As tall as As big asProduce a kind of rice that could feed more people As huge assorghumcorn peanut __ _____ _____ ___ ______ _____To export his rice so that
it can be grown around the globe Dr Yuan Longping is a pioneer of agriculture in China. He
(1)________（graduate） from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Since then he devoted his life to (2)______（find）ways to grow more rice and succeeded. The rice farmers are now producing harvests twice (3)____large as before by growing his super hybrid rice. (4)_____he was not satisfied with his work.
Although now he leads a rich life, he still insists on (5)_____(he) work to develop his rice. His work is(6) (real) important to the world. Because of his hard work, the (7) (produce)of food has been improved.And the problem of (8) (hungry)
can be solved. It was thanks to Dr Yuan’s great work (9) millions of people can benefit (10)_____ his extraordinary work.graduatedfindingasButhisproductionfrom Self-assessment asreallyhungerthatsummaryI. Making preparations (2 minutes)II. Interviewing
(3 minutes)Group work---An interview1. Information about your interviewee
2. Make a list of your questions
study hard and make contributions
to our society!!1.Surf the Internet to find more information about Yuan Longping and his achievements.
2.Think over and write down some measures to rid the world of hunger.
