1、Period 2文本研读课学习目标1.Comprehend the story of Yuan Longping.2.Learn from Yuans story and come to the idea that great personality is of importance to ones success.3.Learn and master some important words,phrases and sentence patterns in this period.课堂探究Step 1Warming upQuestions:1.Have you ever grown any
2、plants?If so,what did you do to grow them?2.Has anyone of you ever been to the countryside?What did you do there?3.Who is from a farmers family?What do you know about farming?Look at pictures and discussWhat is the man doing in the field?What is the man driving the tractor doing in the photo?Whats t
3、he new way?Step 2Pre-readingQuestion and answer1.Rice is the main food in South China.What do you think would happen if tomorrow there were suddenly no rice to eat?2.If you had the chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world,what would you do?Discuss Yuan Longping,and then the teacher giv
4、es background information about the great scientist.Have you ever heard of a man called Yuan Longping?Would anyone of you tell the class something about him?Step 3Deep-readingRead and underline important phrases and sentencesRead the text again and underline all the collocations in the passage.You a
5、re asked to copy them to your notebook after class as homework.Collocations from A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE:work the land,do ones research,for the past five decades,grow super hybrid rice,become an agricultural pioneer,have a high output,produce 20% more of the crop,graduate from a college,find ways t
6、o do sth,see the great need for doing sth,increase rice output,search for a way to do sth,increase rice harvests,expand the area of the fields,produce tons of rice,feed sb from a piece of farmland,circulate ones knowledge,thanks to,rid the world of hunger,be satisfied with,spend money on.,lead a com
7、fortable life,have troubles,equip sb for sth,care about,keep ones time for.,play mah-jong,an ear of rice,a grain of rice,awake from ones dreamUnderstand difficult sentencesDiscuss in groups of four,analyze the structure of the difficult sentences.If you have any problems which are too difficult for
8、you to solve,do not hesitate to tell me.Step 4Read,identify and summarizeIn pairs,read the text,find information to complete the following form.Facts about Yuans super hybrid riceCapacityApplicationContributionFutureFacts about Yuan LongpingBirthEducationPersonalityHobbiesIdeal(dream)Step 5SummaryIn
9、 the last five minutes,lets do the comprehension exercises on Page 11.Check your answers when you have finished.Step 6HomeworkRead the passage again and try to retell the passage.参考答案Step 11.I worked with my father in the rice field last year.We grew super hybrid rice and used animal wastes to make
10、the soil rich.2.I went to Chuankou the day before yesterday.I went there to visit my uncles family.3.Dou Jun and I are from a farmers family in our class.We grow wheat and raise pigs on our farms.And both of our families are going to expand the area of fields this year.Picture 1:Planting rice.Pictur
11、e 2:Plowing the land.Picture 3:Indoor harvesting.Step 21.Then the southerners would have to change their eating habit.They could turn to potatoes,wheat flour,cow and sheep cheese,cabbages,onions and garlic for food.All these are the bases of the traditional food in North China.2.I would try to end h
12、unger by popularizing the advanced farming techniques.Modern techniques could be introduced to increase the rice output,and expand the area of fields.Yuan Longping is a Chinese agricultural scientist.His scientific achievements led to the worlds first successful and widely-grown hybrid rice varietie
13、s,revolutionizing rice cultivation in China.Hybrid rice has since been grown in dozens of countries in Africa,America and Asia,providing food for tens of millions of people and leading to his becoming known as “Father of Hybrid Rice”.Step 4Facts about Yuans super hybrid riceCapacityproduce 20% more
14、of the crop in the same fields;more than 60% of the rice in China is from this hybrid strainApplicationbesides China,knowledge being circulated in India,Vietnam and many other less developed countries to increase their rice harvestContributionnearly two hundred million tons of rice was produced;22%
15、of people are fed from just 7% of the farmland in the world;the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hungerFuturethe rice being grown around the globeFacts about Yuan LongpingBirthin 1930Educationgraduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953Personalityregard himself as a farmer;care little about spending money on himself and being famous;Hobbieslistening to violin music,playing mah-jong,swimming and readingideal(dream)export his rice to be grown all over the world
