长沙市雷锋学校英语向绍莲教学案例.doc

A Teaching Design for Unit 2 Reading Modern Agriculture
★Teaching Aims:
1. Help the students to read text and help them to know the differences of traditional farming and modern farming.
2. Help the students to practise their reading ability and improve it.
3. Help the students to develop their imagination and talk about traditional farming and modern farming and try to improve their spoken English.
★Teaching Important Points:
1. Help the students to read text and help them to know the differences of traditional farming and modern farming.
2. Help the students to practise their reading ability and improve it.
3. Help the students to develop their imagination and talk about traditional farming and modern farming and try to improve their spoken English.
★Teaching Difficult Points:
How to help the students to understand the whole text fully and improve their reading ability and spoken English.
★Teaching Methods:
Fast reading activity,listening activity, careful reading activity. Pair work, group work and individul work.
★Teaching Ads:
The Bb,the multi-media computer.
★Teacing Steps:
Step One:Lead-in
Show the students several pictures and ask them to talk about talk about traditional farming and modern farming. Say today we are going to read a text and learn more about them.
Step Two: While reading
Task 1 Fast reading
Ask the students to read the text fast and answer some questions.
Task 2 Listening
Ask the students to listen to the text and finish some T or F questions.
Task 3 Careful reading
1.Choose the best answers.
2.Divide the text into 4 parts and find the main idea of each part:
Step Three: Discussion
1.What conditions are necessary for growing golden rice?
2. If you are a scientist and you want to use GM technique to change some fruit , vegetables and animals . Please tell me your idea according to the form.(There are some pictures to help them.)

Kind
How would you change it?
Why do you want to change it in this way?
fruit

vegetables

animals

Step Four:Summary:
The text tells us something about the situation of agriculture of our country. For example, its past and present, especially its future. At the same time, we also know that we must take care of the environment while we develop our agriculture. From now on, we should study hard and be ready to make greater contributions to the development of our agriculture.
Step Five Homework
Writing
Please write a composition about the situation of the agriculture in your hometown and offer advice on the development of your agriculture in the future.