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　　Unit 2 Working the land
　　Teaching aims:
　　1. Target Language
　　a.Words and phrases
　　sunburn, struggle, super, expand, circulate, equip, export, rid ... of, be satisfied with, lead a ... life, search for, would rather, thanks to, with the hope of, rather than
　　b. Important sentences
　　This special strain of riakes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields. P10
　　He cares little about spending the money on himself or leading a fortable life. P10
　　2. Ability goals
　　Enable Ss to learn more about agriculture, countryside and farming. By talking they can exchange their experience with each other. 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 man. Of course they will learn from Dr Yuan some noble character.
　　3. Learning ability goals
　　Help Ss learn how to describe Dr Yuan Longping including his personality.
　　Teaching important points
　　a. Help to prehend the text and grasp the main idea of the text.
　　b. Grasp the usage of some words and expressions.
　　c. How to help students map their minds to make contributions to motherland in the future lian.
　　Teaching difficult points
　　a. How to help students learn more about agriculture.
　　b. Help students really master the usage of words and expressions.
　　Teaching methods
　　Talestioning-and-answering activity and reading.
　　Teaching aids
　　A tape recorder, a projector and a puter.
　　Teaching procedures && ways
　　The first period Reading
　　Step 1.Greeting and Revision
　　1. Greet the students as normal.
　　2. Revise the warming up with the following question
　　How do you think to grow our main food--rice?
　　-----1)First, the farmers plow the field. They have to make the soil loose enough to plant crops.
　　2)Second,grow some young plants
　　3)Third, they insert the young plants into the loose field.
　　4)At last ,they will get the harvest
　　Step 2 Pre-reading
　　1 Ask the following questions
　　1).What’s the main food in Canada and USA:
　　----- potatoes and bread
　　2).What is the main food in South America:
　　----- aize
　　3 )What is the main food in Southeast Asian countries:
　　----- rice
　　2 Show the students some pictures and asestion
　　What is happening to these people in East Asian and Southeast Asian countries?