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Unit 5 Working the Land
Chemical farming versus organic farming
Task1:Review
Briefly discuss the meaning of the following words and phrases:chemical fertilizers,increase production,cause damage,long term use,bacteria,pests,nutrition...
Task2:Survey
There is a title and only one picture.The title is a question. What does that tell us?Is it modern or old farming?what about the words in bold?Can we list them as positive or good and negative or bad ?Group vocab:verbs:__________________
Words connected to something positive:_____________________。
Words connected to something negative:_____________________。
Task3 Read
What is chemical farming? What is organic farming?
Chemical farming is farming using ___________ and __________ while organic farming is simply farming _________ using any chemicals.
Task4: question Make questions based on specific subjects made obvious as they are highlighted in bold in the passage. Strong students could be given the topics or subject areas,which would include:Chemical fertilizers,Nutrition,Organic farming,discoveries,soil,methods.Please make questions using Questionwords:where,when,how,who,which,what,And Do you...,Is this...,Are there...,Can you ...?
Task5: detailed readingRead the text carefully and complete the table below.
Farming Benefits Problems Solutions/methods
Chemical farming
Organic farming
Which farming do you support ?
Chemical or organic farming ?
Write an argumentative essay(议论文)
to show your opinion.
Task 6: Writing
2. Words and sentence patterns for argumentative essay
In my opinion, I support…_______________
Firstly, (advantage 1 & detail)
______________________________________
Secondly, (advantage 2 & detail)
______________________________________
Finally, (advantage 3 & detail)
______________________________________
All in all, ______________________________
Task 6: Writing
Example
Appreciation of students’ compositions
Task 6: Writing
In my opinion, organic farming i