人教版高中英语必修4全册教案(4)

The third period Using Language (Organic Farming)

Aims

To help students read the passage Organic Farming.

To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing.

Procedures I. Warming up

Warming up by listening and reading aloud

Language is created to be listened to and spoken first. So open your book to page 13 and read it aloud while listening to the recording. Watch your pauses between the thought groups. II. Guided reading

6. Reading and translating

Read the text sentence by sentence, and put it into Chinese. Who will be the first to try. I will only have four of you to do this task. OK, Wang Shan. You got it, the opportunity, I mean. 7. Reading and underlining

Next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework.

8. Doing exercises

Now you are going to do exercises No. 1, 2 and 3 on page 14 following the article.

9. Listening

For listening turn to page 14 and then 15 for the listening exercises 1, 2 and 3. Are you ready?

5. Reading, speaking and writing

When trying to argue people into or out of doing something we may use the following expressions: I would rather… I’d prefer…because Should I / we…? This is good value because… I don’t like…because… It’s a great pity that… It’s better to… If I have a choose…because choice I’d What is the advantage of…? You need to… In pairs you are to make up a dialogue to argue each other into or out adopting organic farming. I will argue with your monitor, Liang Bochao. Get started.

III. Guided writing

3. Writing a poster

Writing a poster which includes all the information about the uses of computer so that you will encourage more farmers to buy and use. You are asked to base your poster on the overall pattern of the article you learned Organic Farming. Limit your poster to between 200 and 250 words. 4. Writing a speech

Write a speech for Professor Yuan Longping. He is to attend an international conference on modern agriculture. You may also make use of the library and network resources for the task. IV. Further applying Finding information

Read online to find as much information as possible about Professor Yuan Longping and his research group. Share your findings with you partner next time you are here. Writing a report

Go back home to interview your parents or your grandparents about China’s agriculture, its past and present situations. Write a report in English in about 500 words as a weekly project. Acting a text play

Turn either one of the two articles into a text play. Rehearse it and play it in front of the class. The play shall last at least 10 minutes. IV. Closing down

Closing down by filling a form

To end the period please fill in the form below. What is organic farming? definition potentials characteristics Closing down by imaging

Imagine and write about what the agriculture will be like 50 years from now in the future. Use your imagination to compete for “wild thinking prize”.

The fourth period Listening Step 1 Pre-listening

1. Talk about the the differences between organic farming and fertilizer farming. And show the picture

2. Introduce some new words in the listening passage valley competitor determinedpour carrots

cucumbers pumpkins attack spread like wildfire sigh solid

Step 2 Listening

Listen to the tape and answer the following questions: 1. What does the passage tell us?

2. What do the words in the first column mean?

Crops grown means how their crops grow. Well or bad?

Fertilizer means what kind of fertilizer they use. Organic or chemical?

Other plant nutrition means maybe, besides those two fertilizers, they still had some more powerful ones. Listen to the tape and finish the form

Step 3

Get the students to answer:

2 Why do you think the results from the two farmers are so different?

3 Look at the summaries of the story. Decide which is correct and explain why the others are wrong.

Step 4 Listening text

Hand out the listening material , listen to the tape , then complete the passage with the right answers Step 5 Listening on Page 48

Listen to the tape ,and Put these stages of turning fertile land into a desert in order.

Fertile farmland. ( )

Soil is blown away. ( ) Plants die. ( )

Land becomes dry. ( ) Not enough water. ( ) Soil turns to sand. ( )

Step 6 Listening text

Give the students the listening material to finish

The fifth period Writing

Step 1 Speaking

Try to find reasons to persuade people to buy your food. These words and expressions may help you. I would rather... I don’t...because... I’d prefer...because... Should I/we...? It’s better to...

This is good value because...

If I have a choice I’d choose... because... What is the advantage of...? You need to...

Step 2 Writing

1 Buy the best fruits here We only sell green food in this shop! Best choice at best price!

Safe, healthy, clean, fresh. Far away from any pollution. 21. No chemical fertilizer, all organic fertilizers

2. Clean air, clean water 3. No poison, no pesticides 4. Home in heaven

Step 3 Speaking and Writing Task on Page 53.

NOTES

? keeping fish in ponds

? taking eggs from the best quality fish ? feeding fish

? keeping fish very close together

? understanding that fish diseases are a problem ? trying to stop fish being affected by diseases

? removing fish that are the right size for eating or selling ? delivering fresh fish to the market

Step 4 Sample writing

Show the students the sample writing and ask them to read

it.

Step 5 Homework

Next time we’ll finish this unit. What we’ll do next period is to check your homework on Page 49 and finish the Project and Checking Yourself on Page 47, Summing up on Page 16, and so on.

Unit 3 A taste of English humour Teaching goals

1. Target language

verbal, nonverbal, mime, farce, pancakes, mountainous, whisper

b. I think how short life is and how long the universe has lasted. P22 2. Ability goals

Enable the students to talk about some types of English humour and Chinese humour.

3. Learning ability goals

a. Help the students learn how to talk about some types of English and Chinese humour, and then find their differences.

b. Let the students listen, read, and then imitate the jokes, so that they can realize that humour is to let people to be optimistic about everything around.

Teaching important points

Help the students learn how to understand and enjoy English humors. Teaching difficult points

Help the students know the differences between English and Chinese in humours.

Teaching methods

Using pictures, discussion, reading and imitation. Teaching aids

A recorder and a projector.

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