内容正文:
教学设计
课程基本信息
学科
英语
年级
高二
学期
秋季
课题
Unit 5 Working the Land(Assessing Your Progress )
教科书
普通高中教科书 英语 选择性必修一教材
教学目标
After the class, students 'll be able to:
1.consolidate and check the vocabulary that they have learned in this unit ;
2. review the usage of subject clause in this unit when it comes to grammar;
3. summarize and reflect the content of the unit and have a better understanding of agriculture.
教学内容
教学重点:
1. help students master the vocabulary in this unit and subject clause better.
2. help students summarize and reflect the content of the unit and have a better understanding of agriculture.
教学难点:
arouse students’ interest in agriculture and apply what they’ve learned into practice
教学过程
Step1 Learning objectives
The teacher will show the goals of this class to students.
设计意图: It will make students clear about the target of the class, thus following the lesson.
step 2 Review and consolidate the vocabulary
Activity 1 Match the word or phrase with its meaninga. gain sth. with effort
b. completely necessary; extremely important
c. for example
d. make up; consist of
e. the amount of sth that a person, a machine or an organization produces
f. the quality of being deep, strong, or intense
g. very different from each other and of various kinds
h. the top layer of the earth in which plants, trees, grow
1.attain
2.be comprised of
3.depth
4.diverse
5.essential
6.for instance
7.output
8.soil
设计意图:Review the important words and phrases in this unit.
Activity 2 Watch a video
students watch a video about another agricultural scientist , and answer the two question: 1. who is he? 2. what did he write?
设计意图:Introduce another agricultural scientist Jia Sixie and his book Qi Min Yao Shu, arousing students’ interest by watching a video.
Activity 3 Read and complete the passage with the correct forms of the words and phrases in the box.
attain be comprised of depth diverse essential for instance output soil
JiaSixie was a government official from Shandong Province who conducted a lot of agricultural research in the sixth century. In his travels, he observed that some farmers had much better _________ than others, so he decided to investigate the best ways of _________ good harvests. After retiring, he wrote a book, Qi Min Yao Shu, which _______________ sound advice and practices for people doing agricultural work. In one piece of advice, ___________, he told farmers to clear weeds from the ground before planting crops. They could either let the animals eat the weeds or turn the ________ over so that the weeds were covered. Then he gave advice on ploughing, suggesting that the autumn ploughing should be at a greater _______ than the spring ploughing. He also suggested changing crops to get better harvests every year. Finally, he suggested that farmers grow a __________ range of crops next to each other in the fields. Although it has been centuries since Jia Sixie died, Qi Mn Yao Shu is still considered a(n) _________ book in China’s agricultural history.
Then answer the questions.
1 Why did Jia Sixie investigate good ways of farming?
2 What makes Qi Min Yao Shu an important book in China’s agricultural history?
设计意图:Consolidate the vocabulary by the exercise and know more about the contributions the agricultural scientists made like Yuan Longping and Jia Sixie.
Step3 Review and enhance the use of grammar, subject clauses.
Teacher presents the use of subject clauses,including it definition,structure,conjunctions,subject-verb agreement and its word order and students review these.
Activity 4 Find out the subject clauses in the text and analyze the conjunctions
Circle out and analyze the conjunctions
1. However, (what concerned him most )was that farmers often had poor harvests and sometimes even had a serious shortage of food to eat.
2. (How this could be done) was a challenging question at the time.
3. However, (whether it was possible to develop a hybrid of self-pollinating plants such as rice) was a matter of great debate.
4. Today, it is estimated (that about 60 percent of domestic rice consumption in China is comprised of crops generated from Yuan's hybrid strains)....
5. (What impressed people most about Yuan Longping) is his ongoing ability to fulfil his dreams.设计意图:Review the rules of the subject clauses, especially the usage of the conjunction.
Activity 5 Fill in the blanks with that, whether, or wh- question words
1 ______________ the research centre is to be set up has not been decided.
2 ______________ many countries still face food shortages remains a big problem.
3 ______________ impressed me most was that the hybrid rice enabled farmers to expand their output greatly.
4 ______________ the plan is to be carried out still needs discussing.
5 ______________ the new chemical pesticide is effective remains to be seen.
6 ______________ will join in the research team will be announced tomorrow.
7 ______________ he quit his high-paying job is not difficult to understand. He wanted to start up his own business.
设计意图:Have a further practice of choosing the conjunctions of subject clauses.
Step4 Summarize and reflect the content of this unit
Activity 6 Reflect after learning this unit
◎What did you learn about agriculture that you did not know before?
◎What interested you most about agriculture in this unit? Give your reasons.
◎What other important aspects of agriculture do you want to know about?
◎ Overall, I thought this unit was ○ interesting ○ useful ○ so-so ○ difficult.
设计意图:Brainstorm what to review and reflect and then share it with the class.
Step5 Assignment
1. Review the vocabulary and grammar of this unit .
2. Finish the exercise paper of this period.
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