Teaching Design
Subject : English
Topic : Unit 2 Working the Land
A Pioneer for All People (Reading)
(New Senior English for China Student’s Book 4)
Name :
I. Teaching Contents
1 Unit 2 Working the Land(NSEFC Book 1)
Reading: A Pioneer for All People
II. Design of Teaching Objectives
1.Knowledge Objectives
(1)To make the students master the important words, phrases and sentence patterns of
this unit.
(2)To make the students aware of the serious problem in agriculture.
(3)To let the students learn more about Yuan Longping and his super hybrid rice.
2.Ability Objective
(1)To review and strengthen some reading abilities such as: predicting, skimming for
main idea and scanning for detailed information.
(2)To cooperate and exchange ideas with others.
(3)To foster the students to have a sense of responsibility and serve society.
Book4 Unit 2 Working the land--
A pioneer for all people
万玉娟
Ladies and gentlemen. It’s my great honor to present my lesson
here. Today I am going to share my ideas about how to teach reading
through a reading passage A pioneer for all people , from Unit 2
Working the land , Book 4. I will focus on students’ long-term
development in reading skills, expansion of knowledge and emotional
resonance.
To make my presentation much clearer, I will divide my teaching
structure into 6 parts.
Part 1 Analysis of the Teaching Material
1. Content and Status
The reading passage mainly tells us the life of Yuan Longping and
his super hybrid rice. From the passage, we can also learn Dr. Yuan’s
contribution to the world, his noble qualities as well as his great dreams.
Besides, some useful words and sentence structures together with the
1 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 2 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。
Unit2《Workingtheland》Apioneerforallpeople公开课
Unit4 A Pioneer for All People (Reading)
Time: May. 8, 2009
Teacher:
Class:
Teaching aims
1. Ss appreciate the contribution of Yuan Longping and learn
his biography.
2. Ss practice their reading skills and can improve their
understanding.
Teaching important and difficult points
1. Guide Ss to understand Dr Yuan’s contribution and
biography.
2. How to guide Ss to use reading skills efficiently.
Teaching methods
Skimming, Scanning and Task-based method.
Teaching procedures
Step1 Lead-in
Show Ss a video about Yuan Longping.
Step2 Fast-reading
Ss skim the passage and match the main idea of each
paragraph.
Para1 A. Dr Yuan’s dreams.
Para2 B. Dr Yuan’s personality.
Para3 C. Dr Yuan’s biog raphy.
Para4 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement.
Step3 Careful-reading
