Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target Language 目标语言

a. 词汇和短语

sunburnt, struggle, decade, super, output, crop, hunger, disturbing, expand, Vietman, circulate, satisfied, freedom

b. 重点句子

Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger.

2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable Ss 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 seriousproblem—starvation. So after reading the passage about Dr Yuan students will know the importance of his achievement to man. Of course theywill learn from Dr Yuan some noble character.

3.Teaching important points 教学重点

a. Help to comprehend the text and grasp the main idea of the text.

b. Grasp the usage of some words and expressions.

c. How to help students make up their minds to make contributions to motherland in the future like Dr Yuan.

4.Teaching difficult points 教学难点

a. How to help students learn more about agriculture.

b. Help students really master the usage of words and expressions.

5.Teaching methods 教学方法

Talking, questioning-and-answering activity and reading.

6.Teaching aids 教具准备

A tape recorder, a projector and a computer.

7.Teaching procedures && ways 教学过程与方式[来源:Z§xx§k.Com]

Step Ⅰ Greeting and leading in

T: Hello, everyone.

Ss: Hello, teacher.

T: In last unit we learnt some great women. Today we’ll learn a famous man. 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?

T: Do you know it? Read it and say what does it mean?

Ss: Of course. It’s 悯农 written by Li Shen.

T: Let’s look at the two pictures on Page 9. What are the people doing?

Ss: They are planting rice.

T: Can you tell me something about rice?

S: Rice grows in the south.

S: But in some place of the north we can also find rice.

T: Yeah. You are right. In fact rice is a cereal grain that has been grown for at least 5,000 years and is eaten by 2.4 billion people everyday throughout the world.

Step Ⅱ Warming up

T: 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?

S: I have ever grown corn and potatoes. In autumn, my father and I ploughed the soil deep for the first time, then in the next spring, we ploughed the soil for a second time, this time I put the corn seeds into the tunnel following my father. Finally my father covered the corn seeds by ploughing again.

S: I never grow any plant. I’d like to plant sunflowers. They look beautiful. They always face the sun when they are young. I dig some holes in my garden, put some sunflower seeds in them, water them and finally cover them with some more soil.

T: Very well. Have you ever been to the countryside? What did you do there?[来源:学科网]

S5: Yes, I went there to see my grandfather. In the village I played with other boys in the little stream and caught little fish. I even helped my grandfather get in the corn by cutting the corn stems, which made me tired.

T: Are you from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming?

S: Yes, my father is a farmer. In my view, farming is hard work. People have to plant crops, smooth away weeds and get in the crops at the right time. They have to get up early to work in the field so as to protect themselves from the sunshine.

T: That’s right. In the north, the biggest worry that farmers have is the drought. When it doesn’t rain, and they can’t irrigate the crops, the crops will die and they will have nothing after hard working.

Step Ⅲ  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.   

T: Food is the basic need for man. Rice is a main food in all Eastern Asian and Southeastern Asian countries. It is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice everyday throughout the world. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? Well, if you had the chance to do one thing to help end famine in the world, what would you do? 

S: I would invent a new kind of plant to produce more food.

T: A great idea! Your idea is just the same with Dr Yuan Longping. Do you know Yuan Longping?

S: I heard that he is an expert on agriculture.

T: Yeah, today we are going to read a passage about him. Let’s see how he helped the world to solve the problem- starvation. Please open your books to Page 9. 

Step IV Reading

Task 1 Skimming

What is super hybrid rice?

Task 2 Scanning

Find out the main idea of each paragraph.

Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.

Para’s dreams.

 Para2                 B. Dr Yuan’s personality.

 Para. Dr Yuan’s biography.

 Para4                 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement. 

Task 3 Careful reading

Para. 1 Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement

Q1: What does Dr Yuan look like?

 He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim, strong body. He is more like a farmer than ascientist.

Q2: What is his achievement?

 He grows what is called super hybrid rice, which makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields.

True or False:                                                      

1.Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist. (F)

2.Dr Yuan’s kind of rice is the most suitable for China’s farmland. (T)

Para. 2 His biography

Put Dr Yuan’s biography in right order.

a. He was born into a poor farmer’s family .

b. He graduated from Southwest Agriculture college.

c. In 1950,Chinese farmers produced fifty million   tons of rice.

d. 2 billon tons of rice was produced by growing his hybrid rice.

e. He searched a way to increase rice outputs without expanding the area of fields.

f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries.

Proper order: a, c, b, e, d, f

Para. 3 Dr Yuan’s personality

Which of the following description about Dr Yuan’s personality is not true?

A. He is satisfied with his life because he is now rich and famous.

B. He cares little about money and fame.

C. He would rather work than lead a comfortable life.

D. He enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people.

Para 4 Dr Yuan’s dreams.

1.What does“Dreaming for things, however, costs nothing.”mean?

Dreams are free and everybody can have ideas about what they would like their future life to be.

2.Dr Yuan has dreams not only when he is _awake_ but also when he is _asleep.

The first dream:

Produce a kind of rice that could feed more people.

As tall as sorghum

As big as a corn

As huge as a peanut[来源:学科网ZXXK]

The second dream:

To export his rice so that it can be grown all over the world

Personal information:

1. Achievements:

grow rice that has a high output

circulate his knowledge abroad

give money to equip others for their research

2. Hobbies:

playing his violin

listening to violin music

playing mah-jong

swimming

riding his motorcycle to his rice fields

Step V. Answering the following questions:[来源:学&科&网]

1. Why did Dr Yuan want to increase the rice output when he was young?

2. How does he help rid the world of hunger?

3. What kind of life is Dr Yuan leading?

4. Use a few words to describe Dr Yuan’s personality.

Step Ⅵ Summary and Homework

T: 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.

Try to finish the exercises in Learning about Language. Exercise 1, 2 and 3 are about useful words and expressions. Finish them. Next time we’ll check the answers. Ok, class is over. See you next time.[来源:Zxxk.Com]