PEP新课标英语必修四Unit 2 Working the land全单元英文教案

Unit2 Working the land

Aims:Talk about agriculture: a pioneer in farming -Yuan Longping

Talk about organic farming & green food

How to write a brief summary

Try to consolidate how to express suggestions & advice

Master the usage of the -ing form as the subject and object

Learn how to design English posters

Suggestions & advice:

I would rather ... If I have a choice I’d choose because ...I don’t like ... because ...

You need to ...I’d prefer ... because ...May I suggest ...It’s a great pity that ...

Let me suggest Leng Jianli because...Should I/We ...?

Perhaps we should consider Leng Jianli because...It’s better to ..But what/how about Vocabulary:Sunburnt, struggle, decade, super, output, crop, hunger, disturbing, expand, Vietman, circulate, satisfied, freedom

Expressions :rid ... of, be satisfied with, lead a ... life, would rather, refer to, search for, thanks to, would…rather

Period 1-2 Warming up and pre-reading.

Step 1 Lead-in.

Poem By Li Shen

Farmers weeding at noon,Sweat down the field soon.

Who knows food on a tray,Due to their toiling day.

Step 2.Warming up (Questions)

1. 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?

2. Have you ever been to the countryside? What did you do there?

3. Are you from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming?

Step 3 Pre-reading and talking

1. Rice is a 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?

Tips: It is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice every day throughout the world；suffer from starvation/die of hunger; panic, get into trouble

2. If you had the chance to help end hunger in the world, what would you do?

3. Do you know who Yuan Longping is ?

A brief introduction:

Yuan Longping is known as China’s “father of hybrid rice”. It’s said that in China, we eat depending on “Two Ping”---- Deng Xiaoping, who made the policy of System of Production Responsibility, & Yuan Longping, who invented hybrid rice.

Yuan Longping, who was born in September, 1930, graduated from Agriculture Department in Southwest Agricultural Institute. He has been working on agriculture education & the research into hybrid rice since he left the institute.

In the 1960s, when China was suffering from serious famine, he came up with the idea of hybrid rice, which has a high yield ( or output). Ten years later, he succeeded in inventing a new species that produced a 20 percent higher yield than common types of rice.

Yuan devoted himself to the research into agriculture, & was honored by UNESCO & FAO(联合国教科文组织）. Although he is 74 years old, he is still working on the research into

agriculture.

Period 3-4 Reading

Step 1 Lead-in。

1. Listen to the tape carefully then answer these questions.

1）When and who did become the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has

a high output?

2）What did Yuan Longping invent?

2. Read the passage once again,then find out these sentences true or false.

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

2 ）Dr Yuan’s kind of rice is the most suitable for China’s farmland.

3）Dr Yuan would rather work than relax.

4 ）Dr Yuan has dreams when he is asleep and also when he is awake.

5 ）Dr Yuan enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people.

3.Find out the topic sentences of each paragraph

Para. 1: He became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output.

Para.2:He has devoted his life to finding ways to grow more and more rice..

Para.3:He cares little about spending the money on himself and would rather keep time for his hobbies.

Para.4 Dr. Yuan’s dreams.

Main idea of the passage

Chemical fertilizers can cause many problems, so organic farming is becoming

more popular.

4.Write down Yuan Longping’s personal information

•Name:

•Nationality: Born: Age: Occupation: Education:

•Dream: Achievements: Hobbies:

Period 5-6 Language points:

1. Struggle for…为争取……而斗争Struggle against…为反对……而斗争

Struggle with…与……争斗