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Book4 Unit5 Reading for Writing 导学案
【学习目标】
In this period, you will:
understand the differences between chemical and organic farming and their advantages as well as disadvantages;
learn about the author's writing techniques;
learn about the structure of an argumentative essay;
write an essay to express our views on chemical farming or organic farming.
【课前预习】
1. Review the words and phrases that you don’t know in the text.
2. Read the passage carefully and underline the topic sentence of each paragraph.
3. Think about the following questions :
What do you know about chemical farming and organic farming?
If you have a piece of land, which kind of farming would you apply? Why?
【课中探究】
1. Read for the structure.
2. Read for the content.
Chemical Farming
Organic Farming
Advantages
fight crop disease
increase production
lower cost
crops look beautiful outside
healthy food
avoid damage to the environment or to people's health
Disadvantages
harm the land
harm people’s health
harm the environment
crops are less in nutrition
less flavour
cannot meet the demand for food
more efforts and higher cost
smelly gases
3. Read for the language features
Signposts:
however, but, on the contrary, instead
for example, for instance, in fact, such as, take … for example
both…and…, not only…but also, in addition, and, also, as well, what’s more, besides, furthermore, moreover, what’s worse
why…is that…, therefore, for this reason, thus, consequently, as a ressult
as for, as an alternative
Useful expressions:
(vocabulary, sentence structure, grammar...)
[写作指导]
1. Work out the outline
2. More useful expressions for reference.
state your opinion
Currently, there is a widespread concern over the issue that…
As is often the case, … As far as I am concerned, however, …
It can be said with certainty that ... So in my opinion, …
Nowadays, it has to be noticed that… So I’m convinced that…
supporting points and details
First of all, there is no denying/doubt that...
On the one hand,