Unit24TheScienceoffarming
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Teaching objectives and demands:
1. Words and uful expressions:
farming, condition, gardening, be busy with, knock out of, point out, turn over, go against, year after year, agree to do sth．, now and then, give a talk
2. Everyday English for communication
It's a beautiful day today.
It's going to be dry and sunny for the next two days.
What's the weather going to be like at the weekend?
They say it's going to be wet and windy.
3. To help the students know something about agriculturalist Jia Sixie and his book Qimin y
aoshu.
4. Language u: Manipulate listening, speaking practice
Key points:
1. Everyday English for communication
2. Words and uful expressions
3. Grammar: the grammar items about indirect speech
Time arrangement:
This unit is arrangement to be finished in 5~6 teaching periods, including a unit test.
Teaching procedures:
Lesson 93
Step 1. Revision
(1) Check the homework exercis.
关山月古诗
林升平(2) If possible, ask veral Ss to talk about the Changjiang River project.
(3) Revi weather vocabulary. Say What's the weather like today? What was it like yesterday?
What kind of weather do you like? Why? What do you do when the weather's hot/cold/windy? etc.
Step 2. Reading
(1) SB Lesson 93, Part 1. Say Today we're going to learn a dialogue about the weather and farming.
(2) Tell the students that the weather is very important for farmers. Read the dialogue to find out what the weather is going to be like in the next two days. (Dry and Sunny.) What will Tim do? (Sow carrot ed.) How about next weekend? What will the weather be like?
(Wet and windy.) What will he do? (Pick the rest of the cabbages before the weather changes.)
Step 3. Dialogue
Speech Castte Lesson 93. Play the tape of the dialogue for the Ss to listen and repeat. Then let them practi the dialogue in pairs. Get them to make up new dialogues, using the words on the right. Ask some pairs to act out their new dialogues.
Step 4. Explanations to the dialogue
1. He is always busy with his farm work. 他总是忙于他的农场工作。
be busy with 忙于……。例如：
Father is always busy with his rearch work. 父亲老是忙于他的研究工作。
“What are you busy with? ”--“ I'm busy with the preparation for the performance.” “你在忙些什么?”--“我在忙于演出前的准备。”
2. -What's the weather going to be like at the weekend? 周末的天气如何?
-They say it's going to be wet and windy. 据说是潮湿、多风。
明确的英语询问天气的交际用语通常用“What's the wether like…? ”
回答时用“It's…”。这是用来询问当时或某地的天气情况的。
如果询问未来的天气情况，则用这个句型的将来时态：
七宗罪影评“ What's the weather going to be like…? ”， 应答时用“It's going to be…”。例如：
“What's the weather like today in Shanghai? ”--“It's fine in Shanghai.”
“今天上海的天气如何?”--“上海今天是晴天。”
“What's the weather going to be like tomorrow in Shanghai?”--“It's going to be cold and rainy.” “明天上海的天气怎么样?”--“上海明天有雨，天气寒冷。”
“What's the weather going to be like next week? ”--“It's going to be cloudy and rainy.” “下
星期的天气情况如何?”--“多云有雨。”
大西洋的英文3. “be made of”和“be made from”的区别。 两者都作“ 由……制成”解，但“be made of”指“由 ……(材料)制成”，这种材料在制成品中可以看得出来。 例如：
The bridge is made of stone.
这座桥是由石头砌的。(桥的材料是石头，可以看出)
而“be made from”指“由……(原料)制成”， 这种原料在制成品中是看不出来的。例如：The wine is made from fruit.
这种酒是由水果酿制的。(酒的原料是水果，水果在酒中看不出来。)
Step 5. Practice
(1) Play a short game with the Ss. Describe an object and e if they can guess what it is: e.g. It's made of wood. We u it for writing with. (Pencil) It's made from trees. We u it to write on. (Paper).
Write two ntences on the Bb:
Pencils are made of wood.
Paper is made from trees.
Point out the difference between made of (the material is still the same) and made from (the form of the material has changed).
(2) SB Lesson 93, Part 2. Do one or two examples with the whole class, then let the Ss work in pairs, making ntences.
Note that dumplings are made from wheat and are filled with meat and vegetables.
Step 5. Listening
集训营(1) SB Lesson 93, Part 3. Wb Listening, Unit 24.
昭君墓Turn to page 130 of the Workbook. Look at the picture. Go through the questions in Ex. 1
and discuss possible answers. It doesn't matter if the answers are not correct. Say now let's listen to the tape and find out the correct answers.
(2) Listening Castte Unit 24. Play the tape once or twice as necessary. Discuss the answers with the whole class. For Exx. 2 and 3, make sure the Ss know what to do before you play the tape. Ex. 4 is a discussion topic.
