1、Unit 5 Working the land Period 1 Reading and thinking 教学设计教学设计 课题：Get to know an agricultural scientist Apioneer for all people 教学目标教学目标与核心素养与核心素养： 知识目标： To have a good understanding of agricultural scientist Yuan Longping. 能力目标： 1. Analyze why Yuan Longping is called a pioneer for all people. 2. Le
2、arn to use word formation to guess the meanings of new words. 情感目标： To know the characteristics of great agricultural scientist Yuan Longping and his spirits. 教学教学重难点重难点 教学重点：To learn the story of Yuan Longping and analyse his spirits。 教学难点：教学难点： 1. Analyze why Yuan Longping is called a pioneer for
3、all people. 2. Learn to use word formation to guess the meanings of new words. 课前课前准备：多媒体，黑板，粉笔准备：多媒体，黑板，粉笔 教学教学过程：过程： 一、一、Pre-class 1. Greeting 2. Leading-in 教师活动：在 PPT 上展示 Apoem 和图片并带领学生欣赏这首诗歌。 学生活动：欣赏诗歌悯农的英文版。 The Peasants By Li Shen Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon. Who knows f
4、ood on a tray, Due to their toiling day. 教师提问：What does the poem tell us? 学生活动： Farmers are very hard and farming is hard work. Food is precious. People should treasure food rather than waste it. 3. Warming up Lead students to appreciate some pictures of farming procedure and Yuan Longping. 二、二、Whil
5、e- class 1.Pre-reading Read the title and the first sentence of each paragraph. What kind of writing do you think this is? It is biography. 2. Fast reading Task 1: 学生活动：Listen to the text. Match the main idea with each paragraph. Task 2: Read the text and match the time with the events. 参考答案： 1.B2.C
6、3.A 3、Careful reading Task 1: Read the text and complete Yuan Longpings profile. 1. 1930A. Yuan developed the first hybrid rice that could be used for farming. 2. 1953B. Yuan Longping was born. 3. 1974C. Yuan Longping graduated from college. 参考答案： 1. 912. father of hybrid rice3. 19744. domestic 4. 2
7、00 million6. reality7. salty8. awards Task 2: Read the text again and answer the questions.(P51 Exercise 3) 1. Why does Yuan Longping consider himself a farmer? 2. Why did Yuan Longping decide to study agriculture? 3. What is the main advantage of hybrid crops? 4. How has Yuans work helped China and
8、 other countries? 5. What is Yuans latest vision? 参考答案： 1. Because he continually works the land in his research. 2. He was concerned that farmers had poor harvests and sometimes even had a shortage of food to eat. 3. What is the main advantage of hybrid crops? 4. Yuans innovation has helped feed no
9、t just China, but many other countries that depend on rice as well, such as India and Vietnam. 5. Seawater rice. Task 3: Brainstorm Whats your impression on professor Yuan? Please use some adjectives to describe professor Yuan. 参考答案： devoted=dedicated (献身的),selfless , modest (谦虚的) , kind-hearted, en
10、ergetic, hardworking, plain (朴素的) , determined Decide which qualities the following sentences represent. 1. He considers himself a farmer because he continually works the land in his research. _ 2. His slim but strong body is just like that of millions of Chinese farmers, to whom he has devoted his
11、life._ 3. What concerned him most was that farmers often had poor harvests and sometimes even had a serious shortage of food to eat._ 4. Through intense effort, Yuan overcame enormous technical difficulties to develop the first hybrid rice._ 5. Deep down, Yuan is still very much a farmer at heart._
12、6. He cares little for celebrity or money._ 7. Instead, he makes large donations to support agricultural research. _ 8. Despite his advanced years, Yuan Longping is still young at heart and full of vision. _ 参考答案： 1. c2. a f3. d4. f h5. c g6. g7. b8. e 4、Post reading Choose the right content from th
13、e box to complete the summary of the text. Because he works the land, scientist Yuan Longping, the “father of hybrid rice”, considers himself to be a(n) 1. _. Born in Beijing in 1930, his parents wanted him to study 2. _, but concerned about farmers poor harvests, he chose to study 3. _ at Southwest
14、Agricultural College in Chongqing instead. After graduating in 1953, he realised that the solution lay in 4. _ with hybrid rice, a cross of two or more rice species. Overcoming great difficulties, he produced his first in 1974 and today some 5. _ of Chinas rice consumption comes from Yuans hybrid st
15、rains. Whats more, they have helped to feed other countries as boosting yields,60%,science or medicine, salty land,fulfil his dreams,agriculture,farmer well. Continuing to 6. _, his latest vision for “seawater rice” has also become a reality, potentially allowing rice production in Chinas 7. _. Desp
16、ite his age, everyone is waiting to see what Yuan will achieve next. 参考答案： 1. farmer2. science or medicine3. agriculture4. boosting yields 5. 60%6.fulfil his dreams7.salty land 三、三、After-class Task 1: Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the words in the box. 学生活动：Use word formation to g
17、uess the meaning Often, new words are not really“new” they are just different forms of words that you may already know. For instance, a word ending with ate is often a verb, while a word ending in tion is often a noun. Thus, we have communicate (verb) and communication (noun). English has many word
18、patterns like this. 1. This school has _ thousands of bright young students over years. 2. Most students look for jobs after university _. 3. Because of the _ of new strains of hybrid crops, people in many parts of the world now have more food to eat. 4. Last year, this new electric power plant_ eno
19、ugh energy to power the whole city. 5. It was difficult to calculate exactly how many trees had been cut down. However, a general _ was possible. 参考答案： create,estimation,education,generation,graduate 1. Educated2. graduation3. creation4. generated 6. estimation Task 2: Group work 1. How to solve hun
20、ger? 2. Apart from rice, what are some other important crops in China? What do you know about them? 参考答案： 1. preventing the pests from eating our crops, improving the quality of soil, inventing new kinds of food, developing the technology, making good use of the waste land 2. The most important crop
21、 besides rice is wheat, which is grown on different parts of China, and is used to make noodles and bread. Corn is also a popular crop in north and north-eastern China. It is used both for food and for animal feed. 作业布置：Homework Underline phrases in the passage. Para. 1： 1. 作为.出名 be famous as2. 杂交水稻
22、之父 father of hybrid rice 3. 最.的.之一one of +最高级+名词复数4. 耕种土地work the land 5. 数以百万级 millions of6. 献身于.；致力于.devote .to. Para. 2： 1. 让.最关心 concern sb. Most2. 歉收 have poor harvest 3. 严重缺乏have a serious shortage of4. 解决这个危机tackle this crisis 5. 选择做某事 choose to do sth. Para. 3： 1. 增加产量 boost yield2. .的一个特征 o
23、ne characteistic of 3. 例如 such as4. 通过不懈的努力 through intense effort 5. 使某人能做某事 enable sb. to do sth. Para. 4： 1. 据估计 It is estimated that.2. 由.组成 be comprised of 3. 允许某人做某事 allow sb. to do sth.4. 依靠，依赖 depend on 5. 在国内外 both in China and abroadat home and abroad Para. 5： 1. 闲适的生活 a life of leisure2. 在内心深处 deep down 3. 不在乎 care little for4. 捐了大量款 makes large donations Para. 6： 1. 实现他的梦想 fullfil his dreams2. 在某方面成功 succeed in doing 3. 富有远见 full of vision4. 构思,创造 dream up
