Unit 5 A pioneer for all people
Type of the lesson: Reading
Learning Objectives:
1. To learn and master the new words and expressions of the topic by reading.
2. To develop abilities of reading, speaking and teamwork.
3. To learn from Dr Yuan some noble characters, and increa awareness of
responsibility and devotion.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Help the students to understand the passage better.
2. Learn and master the important words and phras in this period.
3. How to help the students make up their minds to make contributions to the society
in the future like Dr Yuan.
Teaching Difficult Points：
1. 变速精灵How to help the students improve their reading ability and understand the passage
better.
了的拼音2. How to master the important language points in this passage.
Teaching Aids:
A blackboard, chalk, and multimedia
Teaching Methods:
1. Fast reading to get the general idea of the text.
未来的能源2. Detail reading to understand the passage better.
3. Discussion to help the students understand better what they’ve learned and to u
the knowledge they’ve learned in this period.
Teaching Procedures:
Before class, let students read the words loudly.
Step 1. Lead-in
Show paddies to students and let them guess what I am holding. Tell them it is the small plants that feed many people in China and even in the world. And ask them if they know who made great contributions to the rice plant. Then go into today’s class.凤尾虾
Purpo: To arou students’ curiosity and interests in learning about Dr. Yuan and his contributions.
Step 2. Fast reading
1. Read the title and the first ntence of each paragraph. What kind of text is it？
A. A short story B. A play review
C. A commercial advertiment D. A biography
2. Match each paragraph with its main idea.
Para.1 A.Yuan conducted rearch and developed hybrid rice.
Para.2 B.Yuan is old but still full of dreams that he is turning into reality.
Para.3 C.Yuan considers himlf a farmer.
Para.4 D.Yuan decided to study agriculture.
慕斯蛋糕做法Para.5 E.Yuan’s innovation has helped to feed more people.
Para.6 F.Yuan cares little for celebrity or money.
Purpo: Develop students’ skimming skills by paying attention to the title and the first or last ntence in each paragraph. Let the students know the structure, main idea and writing style of the text.
Step 3. Careful reading
a. Read paras.1-2 and answer two questions.
※The catcher of the paddy fields
稻田守望者
1. Why does he consider himlf a farmer?
__________________________________________________________________
Actually, he is one of China’s ______________and known as ________________.
2. Why did Yuan Longping choo to study agriculture?
A. Becau his parents wanted him to do so.
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B. Becau he wanted to win awards in this field.
C. Becau farmers sometimes suffered from rious shortage of food at that time.
D. Becau he wanted to make more money by lling eds.
b. Read paras. 3-4
※The jumper in scientific rearch
埋头苦干的意思科研跳高运动员
Read para.3 and answer two questions.
Rearch : why?
Farmers needed to__________in the fields they had to solve the shortage of food.
What’s characteristic of hybrids?They usually attain_____________ than conventional crops.
Read para.4 and find out Dr. Yuan’s great contributions.
Contributions:
骨结核症状1) about ___________of domestic rice consumption in China is comprid of crops
generated from Yuan's hybrid strains
2) Yuan's innovation has helped feed not just China, but many other countries, such
as __________________.
c. Listen to para. 5 and choo the best answer.
1. Did Mr.Yuan retire to a life of leisure?
________________________________
2.Does he care for celebrity or money?
______________________________
3. He makes large donations to_________________________
d. Read Para. 6 and answer two questions.
1.Yuan Longping envisioned rice plants as tall as ___________, with each _______ of rice as big as a broom, and each grain of rice as huge as a __________.
2.What was his latest vision of rice? Has it become a reality?
_____________________________________________________________________
Purpo: Let the students find some uful information, and get familiar with the text to develop their reading abilities to acquire and deal with information.
