人教版高中英语必修4精品教案Unit2 Working the lan(8)

高中英语教案

some 300 billion kilograms to the country's grain output. Furrows grown on his sunburnt face, a slim figure and coiled-up trousers legs would confuse foreign reporters who came to interview the most famous scientist in China, who would rather be called ―a farmer‖. Indeed, like many Chinese farmers, Yuan in his 70s and has devoted most of his life growing rice in paddy fields, but unlike those farmers, he reaps the seed from experimental fields only for hybridizing rice.

Unit2 Working the land Listening, Speaking and Writing

Learning Aims

To help students read the passage Organic Farming.

To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing. Procedures

I．Warming up by listening and reading aloud

Language is created to be listened to and spoken first. So open your book to page 13 and read it aloud while listening to the recording. Watch your pauses between the thought groups.

II. Guided reading

1. Reading and translating

Read the text sentence by sentence, and put it into Chinese. Who will be the first to try. I will only have four of you to do this task.

.Reading and underlining

Next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework.

高中英语教案

2.

Doing exercises

Now you are going to do exercises No. 1, 2 and 3 on page 14 following the article.

3.

Listening

For listening turn to page 14 and then 15 for the listening exercises 1, 2 and 3. Are you ready?

5. Reading, speaking and writing

When trying to argue people into or out of doing something we may use the following expressions:

In pairs you are to make up a dialogue to argue each other into or out adopting organic farming. I will argue with your monitor, Liang Bochao. Get started.

III. Guided writing

1. Writing a poster

Writing a poster which includes all the information about the uses of computer so that you will encourage more farmers to buy and use. You are asked to base your poster on the overall pattern of the article you learned Organic Farming. Limit your poster to between 200 and 250 words.

2.

Writing a speech

Write a speech for Professor Yuan Longping. He is to attend an international conference on modern agriculture. You may also make use of the library and network resources for the task.

IV. Further applying

Finding information

Read online to find as much information as possible about Professor Yuan Longping and his research group. Share your findings with you partner next time you are here.