人教版必修4英语Unit2_Reading_for_information_名师教学设计

Unit2 Reading for information 名师教学设计Unit 2 Working the land (Book IV)课例设计第一课时（Reading for information）1. Teaching Analysis 教情分析1.1 Teaching objectives-教学目标1.1.1 Language target语言目标1.1.1.1 Something about something about agriculture and farming in China and all around the world1.1.1.2 Something about Dr Yun Longping and his contribution to Chinese people and to the fight to the world’s hanger.1.1.2 Ability goals能力目标.1.1.2.1 Train the Ss to get main idea and specific ideas from the passage by means of skimming, canning, close reading, summarizing and comparing, and learn to express their opinions on what they learn about in the passage. Enable Ss to learn more about agriculture, countryside and farming. By talking they can exchange their experience with each other.1.1.2.2 Enable Ss to use the proper learning strategies and promote their reading literacy .By reading they will realize the role that agriculture plays in human life. In fact this world faces a serious problem—starvation. So after reading the passage about Dr Yuan students will know the importance of his achievement to the world.1.1.3 Emotion goals情感目标1.1.3.1 Ss will learn from Dr Yuan’s noble character—devoting himself to helpingpeople with the food problem, making sure they have enough to eat.1.1.3.2 Activate Ss’ critical & creative thinking while reading1.2. Important & difficult teaching points-教学重点1.2.1 Important teaching points-教学重点1.2.1.1 How to get the main idea and specific ideas from the passage1.2.2 Difficult teaching points-教学难点1.2.1 Further understanding and some difficult sentences, as well as guessing meaning of words from the context1.2.2 Express their opinions on what they are learning about in the passage2. Student analysis学情分析2.1 Fundamental state基本情况本单元是高一下期第二单元内。

学生通过一个学期的高中英语学习，对高中学习的要求基本明白，并已基本适应高中学习的要求和方法，具备了一定高中学习的基本技能，初步掌握一些学习策略。

“民以食为天”，粮食问题是人们生存的根本性问题。

中国有14亿人口，可耕种的土地却只占到所有土地的7%。

这么多人口能否吃饭是最大的问题，而农业先驱袁隆平的研究和成就解决了人们的温饱问题。

所以，本单元的内容应该是很多学生熟悉的话题，大多数却对现在农业耕种的两种形式：Chemical farming &organic farming的区别不是很清楚。

这样让学生由熟悉到不熟悉，不断扩展知识和能力，从而最终实现由不熟悉到熟悉的学习体验过程。

2.2 Knowledge reserve知识储备通过高一上期的学习和积累，学生基本完成了从初中到高中的过渡，并在初中基础上扩大了词汇量，也巩固和扩展了话题项目功能和功能意念项目，获取了一些阅读理解的方法和技巧，听说的能力也有一定的提高，所以能较好的完成本单元的学习。

2.3 Class data本班实际本班不是名校班，属于年级第二层次理科实验班，相对于理科平行班来说，学生基础较好，学习能力较强，但本班学生的英语水平有些参差不齐，且因为是理科班，学生在数理化生作业上的压力较大，学生课外完成英语作业的时间相对较少。

加之有的学生对英语学科的重视程度不够，部分学生英语学习的自觉性还有待加强。

因此，教学任务基本需要在课堂上完成，但是通过小组合作互助，基本能完成课前预习的任务。

3. Teaching methods教法建议question and answer method问答法，task-based teaching method任务型教学法，communicative approach交际法，situational teaching approach情景教学法4. Teaching Aids教学辅助blackboard and chalk, computer, projector5.Teaching procedures-教学进程5.1 Step I Leading in & Warming up:5.1.1 Ask Ss questions about agriculture and farming, introducing the topic ---working the land.T: Hello, kids! Hello, everyone. We shall read about man who works the land today. Before that, I have several questions for you:1.Have you ever been to the countryside? What did you do or see there?2.Are you from a farmer’s family? What do you know about faming?Ss: …(Students may give different answers, and they also can learn something from the students coming from rural areas.)5.2 Step II Pre-reading:5.2.1 Introduce the topicT:What’s the main food in Canada and USA:(potatoes and bread)What is the main food in Southeast Asian countries:(rice)T: Look at the pictures, what is happening to these people(Suffering from starvation)T: Read the statistics below. Did you know these facts before? What problem do they show?Ss: …(Teachers show some statistics: According to the WHO: The world producesenough food for everyone.1)Every 8 seconds, a child somewhere in the world dies from starvation.2)More than 800million people go to bed hungry every day.3)More than 800 million people in the world suffer from malnutrition (营养不良)---799 million of them are from the developing world. More than 153 million of them are under the age of 5. )5.2.2 Ask the students to discuss:T:What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do?(Encourage the students to tell their opinions, Then give a conclusion:The only way to solve the food shortage problem is to increase the output of the grain crop per land area through the advancement of science and technology.(After that, teachers lead to the topic of the reading passage. A Pioneer For All People)T: Look at the title and the picture on the next page. What do you predict this passage is going to talk about? Then skim the passage to check if you were right.(Teachers lead the students to pay attention to the people---Yuan Longping)T: What do you know about him?(Father of Hybrid Rice)5.3 Step III ReadingText interpretation-文本解读5.3.1.Skimming: Ask students to read through the passage and then finish theexercise about the main idea of each paragraph.T: How many paragraphs are there in the passage? And what does each paragraph tell us about?(Teachers ask Ss to read the passage and then summarize the main idea of eachparagraph. Then show the following on the screen to ask Ss to match the main ideas with the paragraphs)Para1 A. Dr Yuan’s dreams.Para2 B. Dr Yuan’s attitude towPara3 C. Dr Yuan’s life experien ce.Para4 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement.Suggested answers:Para1: D Para2: C Para 3: B Para4: AT: What is the main idea of this passage?Ss: The text is about _______________ who made a great contribution to producing better _____.Suggested answers:Dr Yuan Longping, rice.5.3.2 Scanning :Ask Ss scan to finish the Dr Yuan’ biography:T: When we write or read a biography , what order do we according to?Ss: Time.T: Good. Now please read this is biography of Dr Yuan, and finish the following exercise.1930195019531960s1973Suggested answers:1930 Yuan LongPing was born1950 Chinese farmers produced about fifty-six million tons of rice1953 Yuan Longping graduated from Southwest Agriculture College.1960s He came up with the ideas of developing hybrid rice.1973 He became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output.5.3.3 Close reading: Ask Ss to finish the chart about Dr Yuan.T: Now, please read for more details. Then underline the answers in your text books.Name: Nationality:Age: Occupation:Education:Dream:Achievement:Hobbies:Suggested answers:Name: Yuan LongpingNationality: ChineseAge: 87Occupation: scientist/farmerEducation: graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953 Achievement: has developed hybrid rice which procduces 20% more than normal rice and is circulating in some southeast Asia countries and manyother less developed countriesHobbies: listening to violin music, playing mah-jong, swimming and reading Dream: to export his rice so that it can be grown around the glob.5.3.4 Further understanding -深层理解T: And now, Let’s come to Text Interpretation.5.3.4.1.1Ask students to do the asking and answering:T: Please find the answers to the following questions:①Why did Yuan Longping want to increase the rice output when he was young?②What do you think is the main reason for his success?Suggested answers:1. He wanted to increased the rice output because he saw many people go hungrywhen he was young.2. I think Dr Yuan is successful because he kept working and did not give up.(Answers may vary, but be in accordance with the passage and make sense.)5.3.4.2Ask students to do the multiple choice:T: Please choose the best answer for the following exercise.①.What does the word “battle” refer to i n para.2?A. The low rice output.B. Ridding the world of hunger.C. Fighting against farming.D. The freedom to do research.②.It can be inferred (推断) from the text that ______.A. Yuan cares about money and being famous.B. Yuan is interested in playing the piano.C. Yuan’s rice is grown in many countries.D. Spending money on himself means very little to Dr Yuan.Suggested answers:1.B2.C5.3.4.3 Difficult sentence structure -难句理解与运用T: Pick out the difficult sentences and try to understand them. If you do have any difficulties, please ask either your partners or me for help.①Since then, finding ways to grow more rice has been his life goal. P10②.Dr Yuan searched for a way to increase rice harvest without expanding the area of the field. P10③.Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger. P10④Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvest twice as large as before. P10⑤however, he does' care about being rich. P10T: Pay attention to the differences between care about and care for.⑥He would much rather keep time for his hobbies. P10⑦He enjoys listening to violin music, play mah-Jong, swimming and reading.P10⑧Spending money on himself or leading a comfortable life also means little tohim. P10⑨Just dreaming for things, however, costs nothing. P10⑩.Dr Yuan woke from his dream with the hope of producing a kind of rice that could feed more people. P10T: There are still some difficult sentences in the passage. Can you understand them each? And please do more reading after class and try to find out all the important words, expressions and sentences. We will come to language points next period.5. 4 Emotion & culture -情感与文化5. 4.1 Guide Ss to work in pairs and discussT: Next, let’s discuss You can choose either of the following to have a discussion, the questions are as follows:1. Dr Yuan thinks that a person with too much money has more rather thanfewer troubles. Do you agree or disagree? Why?2. What advantages and disadvantages do you see in Yuan Longping’s life?Would you like to have a life like his ? Why or why not?T: You will have 5 minutes to discuss in your group. After that, I will ask some of you to share your ideas with us.(Give Ss about 5 minutes to do group work, then, ask three or four students to report their ideas on behalf of the whole group. Teachers should evaluate the Ss critically and give them encouragement when necessary, thus motivating Ss to express their ideas to use what they have just learnt about)5.5 Step V Talking and sharing –讨论和分享5.5.1 Guide Ss to do self-evaluation:T: Now let’s come to self-assessment, which will help us be a better learner.1.What have I learnt in this period?2.What am I still confused about?3.What should do to make them clear?(Teachers ask Ss to do it between themselves first, then together with the whole class)6. Homework课后作业6.1 Finish the exercises on Guidance on Learning.6.2 Read the passage again and prepare for the language points for next period.6.3 Write a short passage about Dr Yuan.。