人教版高中英语教案Unit 2 Working the land.docx

1、人教版高中英语教案Unit 2 Working the land Unit 2 Working the landTopic: important people; history and methods of agriculture.Vocabulary: statistics, sunburnt, struggle, decade, super, output, crop, hunger, disturbing, expand, circulate, Vietnam, battle, rid, freedom, therefore, equip, grain, export nationali

2、ty, occupation, confuse, regret, chemical, production, bacteria, pest, nutrition, mineral, discovery, focus, soil, reduce, root, skim, underline, summary, comment; thanks to; ridof; be satisfied with; would rather; build up; lead to; focus on; keepfree from / ofFunction: Id rather. If I have a choic

3、e I will choose. It is better to What is the advantage of? You need to. The advantages are. I would prefer. Because This is good value because. I dont like .because. It is a great pity that. You will taste the difference when.Grammar: The -ing form as the subject and objectPoverty facts and statisti

4、cs: 1) Half the world- nearly three billion people-live on less than two dollars a day. 2) The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (a quarter of the worlds countries) is less than the wealth of the worlds three richest people combined. 3) Nearly a billion people entered the 21st c

5、entury unable to read a book or sign their names. 4) Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it did not happen. 5) 1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live witho

6、ut adequate shelter; 400 million have no access to safe water; 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (roughly 29,000 children per day) Some information about the WTO (World Health Organization) and the Food and Agriculture Organizat

7、ion of the United Nations (FAO) The first period: Warming Up and ReadingImportant points: Let students learn more about Yan Longping and his hybrid strain of rice.Get students to learn different reading skills.Difficult points:Develop students reading skills.Enable students to talk about Yuan Longpi

8、ng and his hybrid strain of rice.Knowledge aims:Get students learn some useful words and expressions: statistic, sunburnt, struggle, decade, super, output, crop, hunger, disturbing, expand, circulate, Vietnam, battle, rod, freedom, therefore, equip, grain, export, nationality, occupation, thanks to,

9、 rid of, be satisfied with, would rather, World Health OrganizationStep 1 Leading in and warming up1. Have a free talk with students too discuss the following questions.Have you ever been to countryside? What did you see or do there?Are you from a farmers family? What do you know about farming?2. St

10、able food:Wheat, rice, corn, bean, .3. Some farming steps: select the seeds plough the soil turn over the soil sow the seeds remove the weeds fertilize grow the young plants insert the young plants harvestStep 2 Pre-readingTurn to page 10, look at the title of the reading passage and the pictures an

11、d then predict what the passage is going to talk about. 1. Let the student read the statistics and discuss the following questions:Did you know these facts before? What problems do they show?The world produces enough food for everyone.More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day.2. Let st

12、udents imagine and discuss the following question:What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?Step 3 Reading1. Fast reading:Ask students to read the text fast and then answer the following questions:Who became the first agricultural pioneer in the world in 1974 to gr

13、ow rice that has a high output?What are his achievements?(His achievements: grow super hybrid rice that has a high output; circulate his knowledge abroad; give money to equip others for their research.) 2. Intensive reading: Read the passage carefully to find out the main idea about the text:Find ou

14、t the main idea of each paragraph and match the following headings with the right paragraphs:Paragraph 1A. Dr Yuan Longpings dream.Paragraph 2B. Dr Yuan Longpings personality.Paragraph 3C. Dr Yuan Longpings biography. Paragraph 4D. Dr Yuan Longpings appearance and his achievement.3. Choose the best

15、answers according to the text:1). Dr Yuan Longping looks like -. A. a scientist B. a strong man C. a farmer D. a pioneer2). What has he been doing for so many years? A. he Has been working in the rice field like other farmers.B. he has been doing research to raise the output of rice.C. he has been m

16、anaging a large farm.D. he has been carrying out experiment in his lab.3). Dr Yuan Longpings main achievements in his lab?A. he has helped other less-developed countries.B. he has earned a lot of money from his research.C. he has helped the United Nations to get rid of hunger in the world.D. he has

17、greatly raised the production of rice.4). Whats his attitude to money? A. he tries his best to earn enough money.B. he thinks that one should own a large sum of money in his life.C. he doesnt value money very much.D. he hates money and thinks it is nothing. (Suggested answers: CBDC)4. Discuss and an

18、swer these questions based on your understanding of the passage.1). Why did Yuan Longping want to increase the rice output when he was young?(He wanted to increase the rice output because he saw many people go hungry when he was young.)2). Is Yuan Longping more of a scientist or more of a farmer? Do

19、 you think he is a businessman?(I think he is more of a scientist, although he works in the fields like a farmer. His main purpose is not to make a profit for himself but to study agriculture and use that knowledge to improve farming for farmers everywhere. I do not think he is a businessman, becaus

20、e his goal is not to make money.)3). How would you describe Dr Yuans personality? Use three or four adjectives.(Because of his work with developing hybrid rice, it seems that Dr Yuan must be a very patient and careful man. He did not give up but kept working on his project. He also seems to be a ver

21、y kind man, who cares for others. He wants to use his invention to help hungry people around the world.)4). Dr Yuan was able to develop a successful agricultural product when thousands of other farmers could not. What do you think is the main reason for his success?(I think Dr Yuan was successful be

22、cause he kept working and did not give up. He was also very motivated to succeed and help other farmers around China.)5). Dr Yuan thinks that a person with too much money has more rather than fewer troubles. Do you agree or disagree? Why?(I mostly agree. I think being rich can cause a lot of problem

23、s, but it really depends on the life and attitude of the person who is rich. People who are rich certainly have different problems from people who are not.)6). Dr Yuan developed super hybrid rice to help Chinese farmers and hungry people around the world. Can you think of any other major development

24、 that would make a difference to would hunger? Write out your ideas and then compare it with your partner.(I think developing other hybrid grains would make a great difference in the problem of world hunger. Hybrid grains that can survive in very dry or very hot areas would be very useful in Africa

25、and other areas. Hybrid grains that cannot easily be killed by insects and diseases would be useful around the world.)5. 根据课文内容填空。NameYuan LongpingNationality ChineseOccupation ScientistAge He is 82 years old in 2012.Education He graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953.Hobbies Listenin

26、g to violin music, playing mah-jong, swimming and reading.Life goal Finding ways to increase rice harvests without expanding the area of the fields.Dreams Rice plants could be as well as sorghum.He wants to export his rice to other countries.Achievements He developed super hybrid rice which produces

27、 one-third more of the crop in the same fields.His rice has made 22% of the worlds people fed from just 7% of the farmland in China.He is now circulating his knowledge in other countries.Step 4 Post-reading1. Get students to read the text carefully and paraphrase some difficult sentences.1). As a yo

28、ung man he saw the great need for increasing the rice output.2). At that time, hunger was a disturbing problem in many parts of the world.3). Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvest twice as large as before.4). Spending money on himself or leading a comfortable life also means very litt

29、le to him.5). Just dreaming for things, however, costs nothing.2. Have students in groups of four take a group discussion and then report to the class.Step 5 Consolidation1. Let the students us the information to complete the following about Yuan Longping.Name Yuan LongpingNationalityChineseBirthIn

30、1930; in a poor farmers family; OccupationScientist of farmingEducationSouthwest Agriculture College, in 1953PersonalityCare little about money and fameDreamHis first dream: rice plants as well as sorghum, each ear of rice as big as an ear of corn. Each grain of rice as huge as a peanut.His second d

31、ream: to export his rice so that it can be grown around the world.Achievement Growing rice that has a high output; circulating his knowledge abroad; giving money to equip others for their research.HobbyListening to violin music; playing mah-jong; swimming and reading 2. Ask some students to retell t

32、he story about Yuan Longping according to the notes above.Step 6 Closing down by a discussing Show them some pictures for them to see and have a discussion:For reference:The measures taken t rid the world of hunger.Invent a new kind of plant to produce more food.Find a sort of fertilizer to give rice enoug