Unit2 Working the land- Warming Up,Pre-reading and Reading教案

 
2. giving background information about professor yuan longping
have you ever heard of a man called professor yuan longping? would anyone of you tell the class something about him?
(for reference: professor yuan longping is a chinese agricultural scientist. professor yuan's breakthrough scientific achievement led to the world's first successful and widely grown hybrid rice varieties, revolutionizing rice cultivation in china and tripling production over a generation. his approach to rice breeding then spread internationally throughout asia and to africa and the americas, providing food for tens of millions and leading to his becoming known as the "father of hybrid rice."iii. reading
1. reading aloud to the recording
comprehension—understanding what you are reading—is important. to read in thought groups is an easy, yet effective, way of improving reading comprehension. now turn to page 9 and read aloud to the recording of the text a pioneer for all people. pay attention to the thought groups in the sentences while listening and reading aloud.
2. reading and underlining
read the text again and underline all the collocations in the passage. you are asked to copy them to your notebook after class as homework.
collocations from a pioneer fro all people
call sb. …, regard sb. …, work the land, do one’s research, for the past five decades, grow hybrid rice, become an agricultural pioneer, have a high output, produce one-third more of the crop, be born into a poor family, graduate from a college, devote one’s life to…, find ways to do sth., see the great need for doing sth., increase the rice output, search for a way to do sth., increase rice harvests, expand the area of fields, produce tons of rice, feed sb. from a piece of farmland, circulate one’s knowledge, thanks to…, rid the world of hunger, be satisfied with…, care little about…, spend money on…, lead a comfortable life, have troubles, equip sb. for sth., care about…, keep one’s time for…, play one’s violin, play mah-jong, ride one’s motorcycle, wish for…, in a dream, an ear of rice, a grain of rice, awake from one’s dream3. reading, identifying and summarizing
attention, please! it is time to skim the text one more time and identify the topic sentence of each paragraph.
(minutes later) xue hongmei, would you read to the class the four topic sentences you identified?
what about the main idea of the passage? who will volunteer to give the class his summary of the main idea? bai jianfang, you’d like to say something? go ahead!