Unit 19 Modern Agriculture教案

solution (who / how?)
at present:
1) hu meiying & all women from the villages around plant trees.
2) people are not allowed to cut down the trees when they are still small.
result
1) all the hills surrounding their village are covered with green trees.
2) the tree & tea crops are also bring in money to them.
homework:
1 make 5 sentences using it for emphasis.
2 preview integrating skills 1 on page 48.

period 5   integrating skills 1 & writing
task:
the ss are to work out a plan for his / her own vegetable garden.
goals:
1) enable the ss to know the importance of doing farm work at the right time of the year.
2) enable the ss to learn to write a passage introducing yuan longping.
teaching procedure
1 warming up
show 4 pictures of different seasons in a year to revise words of 4 seasons & 12 months.
1 what season do you think the 1st picture is? …
2 how many months are there in spring? what are they?
2 pre reading
1 what can you see in the picture?
 
2 what do you know about jia sixie?
he is a scientist in farming; he wrote a book called qimin yaoshu.
3 while reading
1) fast reading
why do we consider jia sixie as an agriculture scientist?
because he spent his time on research into agriculture & wrote a book called qimin yaoshu, which is about both farming & gardening.
2) careful reading
the life of farmer is busy. each month there is a lot of work to do: ploughing, sowing,
weeding, harvesting, fertilising and so on. what advice does jia sixie give farmers?
 advice
on time of farming at the correct time …
 go against … at the wrong time

on soil examine the soil … carefully
 condition … not good, … improve …
 before sowing & planting crops …
 clean & remove the weeds sheep or cows
  land should be ploughed
on ploughing plough deep … plough less deep
 autumn … deeper than spring ploughing
on changing crops the best harvest is reached
on plants in the same field to grow different plants next to each other
4 post reading
1) enjoy some farmers’ proverbs & sayings.
farmers’ proverbs & sayings
the wisdom of farmers about the weather & farming is collected in many popular proverbs & passed on from generation to generation. the following proverbs tell you sth. about the weather din england. are they true for china?
1 no weather is ill, if the wind be still.
2 yellow sky at sunset, wind in the morrow.
3 rain before seven, clear by eleven.
4 april showers bring may flowers.