高中英语人教版必修4Unit 2 Working the Land (A Pioneer for All People)Teaching material.The core of this unit is “agricultural”, it mentions our famous scientist Yuan Longping’s contributions to agriculture and the influence of fertilizer to the land, and how to develop organic farming. My teaching lesson includes warming up, pre-reading and reading. It mainly introduces our famous agriculturist Yuan Longping and his great contributions .According to learn this lesson, Students can be able to learn some important words, expressions and sentence structures.The students will know some knowledge of agriculture and the significance of organic farming. According to the new standard curriculum and the syllabus , after studying the teaching material and analyzing the rule of children’s growing of mind, I think the teaching aims are the followings:Teaching aims:1. Talk about agriculture: a pioneer in farming -Yuan Longping2. Talk about organic farming & green food3. How to write a brief summary4. Try to consolidate how to express suggestions & advice5. Master the usage of the -ing form as the subject and object6. Learn how to design English postersTeaching important points：1. The usage of some words and expressions.2. Help to comprehend the text and grasp the main idea of the text.3. How to help students make up their minds to make contributions to motherland in the future like Dr Yuan.Teaching difficult points ：1. How to help students learn more about agriculture.2. Help students master the some ways of reading.Students AnalysisClass Four, Grade one is my teaching class. My students are almost from the countryside. Therefore, They are familiar with the knowledge and the information of the countryside. As senior students , they have a certain ability to read. As for the learning methods, they are poor in cooperative learning skills. Some students are not active in the class .Therefore , I ’ll have students study in a relaxed atmosphere.According to the analysis of the teaching material and the students’ learning background , I will use the following methods .Teaching Methods:In my opinion, the main instructional aims of learning English in the Middle School is to develop the students’ abilities of listening, speaking, re ading, writing and their good sense of the English language. So in this lesson I’ll mainly use “Communicative” Approac h,“Situational teaching”and “Task-based” language teaching . That is to say, I’ll let the students get a better understanding of the key structure of the passage. At the same time, I’ll make use of the modern electricity teaching equipments and all kinds of teaching means, it can develop the students creativity in learning English.Teaching procedures:Step 1 : Warming upPurpose of my design: To make the students have a better understanding about the importance of producing food. And it can attract students’ attention.1. Show a famous poem written by Lishen in order to ask students to cherish food.2. What do you know about farming?(Pepper; Cotton; Super hybrid pear; Eggplant;corn; watermelon; cabbage; Super hybrid rice ) 3. Do you know the farming steps?Show the steps: 1). Select the best seeds 2) plough the fields3)grow some young plants 4) insert the young plants into the fields5) take care of the plants 6) get in the crops during the harvest timeStep 2. Pre-readingThe 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.Discussion : Rice is our main food.1.What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?2. If you had the chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world, what would you do?3. How to solve hunger?making good use of the waste land，developing the technology to make a kind of fertilizer to give rice enough nutrition and let them grow quickly and have high product，inventing a new kind of food，improving the quality of the soil ，preventing the pests from eating our crops.4. Look at the picture. Who is he? (A farmer pioneer called “Father of Hybrid Rice)Can you describe the picture?Step 3. Fast readingThe purpose of fast reading is to let students find some useful information, and get familiar with the text. So in this step, teacher can design some questions for students, so that they can easily find the answers and finish the reading task.1. W hich of the following statements tells the main idea of the text? It ’s about____A. A farmer named Yuan LongpingB. How Yuan Longping became rich and famousC. An agricultural pioneer named Yuan Longping who worked hard to produce a new strain of riceD. A new strain of rice which is called super hybrid rice2. Pairwork：Match the following headings(标题）to each paragraph.Para. 1 A. Dr Yuan’s dreams.Para. 2 B. Dr Yuan’s personalityPara. 3 C. Dr Yuan’s biography(传记).Para. 4 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement. (1-d 2-c 3-b 4 –a)Step 4. Careful reading:The purpose of fast reading is to enable students to understand the given material better using different reading skills. To present Sample A by CAI is much easier for the Students to learn and grasp the meanings. Then ask some students to answer the following questions: Para1: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 a scientist.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.Para 2:Time Information1930 Born in Beijing1953 Graduated from Southwest Agricultural CollegeAs a young Saw the great need for increasing the rice outputHunger was a disturbing problemIn a recent harvest Nearly 200 million tons of rice producedNow Circulating his knowledge1. Why did Dr. Yuan want to increase the rice output when he was young?Because at that time, hunger was a serious problem in many parts of the countryside. He saw many people were suffered from hunger when he was young.2.How does he help rid the world of hunger?He works hard to produce the hybrid rice that has a high output.Para 3: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.Para4:Q1. What did Dr Yuan’s rice look like in his dream?The rice plants were as tall as sorghum. Each ear of rice was as big as an ear of corn and each grain of rice was as huge as a peanut.Q2. Dr Yuan has dreams not only when he is _____ but also when he is______. awake ---asleepStep 5 .Discussion:The purpose of my design: “Task-based” teaching method is used here to develop the student s’ abilit y of communication and also their ability of co-operation will be well trained. I think proper competition can arouse the student s’ interest in English learning. If the S tudents can finish this task well, they will benefit a lot in their spoken English. By this step, it achieved the teaching aim of understanding and talking the dialogue of this lesson.1. Is Dr Yuan more of a scientist or more of a farmer? Do you think he is a businessman? Give your reasons.2. Dr Yuan thinks that a person with too much money has more rather than fewer troubles. Do you agree or disagree? Why?3. Suppose you were Dr Yuan’s daughter or son. Introduce your “father” to your classmates. You may use some of the following expressions:more… than… sunburnt face & armsslim, strong body invent super hybrid ricebe famous as in 1930in 1953 at presentbe satisfied with lead a…lifeprefer freedom to fame hobbieswould rather dream of doing sth.Step 6. HomeworkPurpose of my design: This content is an extension of the previous lesson, to meet the needs of increasing writing abilities demand of the students.After you read the achievements that Dr yuan has made, Are you inspired? What have you learnt from Dr Yuan? What do you think you will do in the future? Write a short passage about 100 words.。
Unit 2 Working the landTeaching goals1.Target Languagesunburn, struggle, super, expand, circulate, equip, export, rid…of, be satisfied with, lead a…life, search for, would rather, thanks to, with the hope of, rather than2.Important sentencesThis special strain of rice makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields. P10He cares little about spending the money on himself or leading a comfortable life. P10He also doesn’t care about being famous. P10He feels it gives him less freedom to do his research. P10His other hobbies include playing mah-jong, swimming and reading. P10Wishing for things, however, costs nothing. P10Ability goalsEnable students 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 serious problem-starvation. So after reading the passage about Dr Yuan students will know the importance of his achievement to man. Of course they will learn from Dr Yuan some noble character.Learning ability goalsHelp students learn how to describe Dr Yuan Longping including his personality.Teaching important points1. Help to comprehend the text and grasp the main idea of the text.2.Grasp the usage of some words and expressions.3.How to help students make up their minds to make contributions to motherland in the future like Dr Yuan.Teaching difficult points1.How to help students learn more about agriculture.2.Help students really master the usage of words and expressions.Teaching aidsa projector and a computer.Teaching procedures & waysStep 1 Greeting and leading inGood morning class!Today ,let’s enjoy a poemFarmers weeding at noon,Sweat down the field soon.Who knows food on a tray,Due to their toiling day.Ask the question :What can we learn from this poem?We know rice is very important and precious for us.It’s very hard for farmers to grow rice.Step2 Pre-reading1.How to grow rice?Ask students to think about the question .show some pictures to help them answer2. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?Give students some information about hunger3.let students guess who rid Chinese of hunger .Step3 Fast ReadingThe purpose of fast reading is to let students find some useful information, and get familiar with the text. So in this step, teacher designs some questions for students, so that they can easily find the answers and finish the reading task.1.Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.Para1 A. Dr Yuan’s dreams.Para2 B. Dr Yuan’s personality.Para3 C. Dr Yuan’s biography.Para4 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievementTask 2 ScanningScan the passage to find more information.Name ____________ Age ____________Nationality _____________Occupation工作,职业__________________Education _________Dream ___________________Achievement _______Hobbies ___________Step 4 Careful Reading1.What does Dr. Yuan consider himself? Why?He considers himself a farmer ,for he works the land to do his research.3Para. 3 Dr Yuan’s personalityWhich of the following description about Dr Yuan’s personality is not true?（A）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.4.What was his dream and what is his dream now?The first dream:Produce a kind of rice that could feed more people•As tall as sorghum•As big as a cornAs huge as a peanutThe second dream:To export his rice so that it can be grown all over the worldStep 5 post-reading（summary）Dr Yuan is one of China’s most famous scientists, but he considers himself a _____.Dr Yuan grows ______________ which has a high output.He is now _________ his knowledge in I______, V______ and many other less developd countries to increase their rice harvests.Dr Yuan is quite ____________ his life. However, he doesn’t care about being ____.Step 6 HomeworkToday we talked about agriculture. And we also read about Dr Y uan 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.Today’s homework1.make a brief introduction for your group members.Name ____________ Age ____________•Nationality _____________•Occupation__________________•Education _________•Dream ___________________•Achievement _______•Hobbies ___________2.•Do you have dreams? How can you realize (实现)your dreams?。
人教版第四册Unit 2 A Pioneer For All People主题语境：人与社会---对社会有突出贡献的人类语篇类型：记叙文，人物介绍授课时长：两课时（每课时45分钟）语篇分析：【What】主题和内容文章第一段从袁隆平科学家的身份和农民的外表写起，介绍了他的主要成就---种植杂交水稻的先驱。
第二段记述了袁隆平的生平，包括教育背景、科研动机、重要成果、对人类的贡献等几个方面。
第三段介绍袁隆平的价值观，即淡泊名利，过着普通人的简单生活，并向同行科研工作者捐款。
第四段介绍袁隆平的几个梦想，并提出梦想的驱动力来自于袁隆平对人民的热爱。
【Why】作者观点和写作意图学习袁隆平淡泊名利、造福人类的价值观，和其拥有梦想并为梦想拼搏的精神。
【How】文体特征和语言特点文章是一篇介绍人物的记叙文，从标题“A Pioneer for All People”可看出，文章有两条行文线索：主线是a pioneer，描述了袁隆平通过几十年的研究取得的成就；暗线是all people，在本文中的每一段都通过数据来说明带给人类的变化，来侧面体现袁隆平作为伟大科学家和人类先驱的可贵品质。
学情分析：文科班英语基础良好，学习态度较认真，学习热情高，对袁隆平先生极为仰慕和尊重。
学生已基本具备在阅读中获取细节信息的能力，一小部分学生能用英语自信地表达观点。
但是多数学生在理解和整合知识，概括品质和精神等方面的能力都比较薄弱。
教学目标：学生通过本节阅读课，能够：1. 培养学生核心素养中的思维品质--说出文章结构；2. 培养学生核心素养中的语言能力--获取梳理袁隆平的基本信息及其主要成就；3. 培养学生核心素养中的文化意识--学习和概括袁隆平品质和精神；教学重点：帮助学生梳理人物传记的篇章结构及文章脉络；获取和梳理袁隆平的基本信息及其主要成就。
教学难点：理解袁隆平淡泊名利、造福人类的伟大价值观；思维品质和文化意识的培养。
教学过程：Step 3 Read for structures Ask Students to skim the textand find out what aspects are mentioned in each paragraph.Para 1: occupation, appearance, achievementPara 2: birth, education, contributions and meaningsPara 3: hobbies and personalitiesPara 4: dreams引导学生通过搭建支架和脉络获取袁隆平的基本信息R e a d f o r details nd find out the detailed infor mation.Para 1 and Para 2: 1. What does Dr. Yuan look like?2. What is his great achievement? And how did he achieve that?3. What’s his life goal? Whydid he set the goal?4. What are his contributions to China and to the world?Para 3: Find out the right answer to Dr. Yuan’s values.Para 4: How many dreams does Yuan have? What are they?梳理细节信息，引导发现并理解袁隆平淡泊名利，造福人类的精神Step 6A f t e r r e a ding 1. Ask Students to draw a mind map based on the information above.2. 在2019年建国70周年的大喜之日,袁隆平实至名归,荣获共和国勋章(Order of Republic),请为其写一篇颁奖词。
