Working the land(Periods 1 Warming up and Reading)
feelings and valueit can help the students,especially the students in cities,know something about agriculture.teaching proceduresstep 1 warming up t:good morning / afternoon everyone.ss:good morning / afternoon,teacher.t:in unit 1 the previows we learnt some great women.today we’ll learn something about a famous man.at first let’s look at the following pictures and tell me what the people are doing?
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the modern agriculture
step 2 pre-reading the purpose of this step is to let the students know the importance of rice.by answering the two questions,the 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.t:what is the main food in all east asian and southeast asian countries?ss:rice.it is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice every day throughout the world.t:what do you think would happen if there was suddenly no rice to eat?ss:if that happened,people there would suffer from starvation.people would be panic(驚慌) and the whole country would get into trouble.t:but today it will not happen because dr yuan longping helps us.so today we’ll learn a passage about dr yuan,the father of hybrid rice.let’s come to the text.step 3 fast readingthe reading material is about an agricultural pioneer named yuan longping who worked hard at a new strain of rice.it has proved so successful that his technology spread into other countries.the purpose of the fast reading is to let the students find some useful information，and get familiar with the text.so in this step,the teacher can design some questions the for the students,so that they can easily find the answers and finish the reading task.t:read the text fast and find out the answers to the questions on the screen.then i’d like to ask you to answer them.show the questions on the screen and give the students three minutes to read the text quickly.1.what is dr yuan’s appearance?2.what’s his achievement?3.do you think he is a great man?why?