1.教材分析（analysis of teaching material）
This class is the first period of this unit. The discussion is about three groups of topics: agriculture, agricultural work, the worldwide food shortage and the solving methods. This class serves as a basis for the following reading class. It is to improve Ss’ sense of agriculture and agricultural work and inspire their enthusiasm of future study.
2.学情分析（analysis of the students）
Generally speaking, my Ss are well behaved in their study. But the high level Ss are still too few. Most of them are shortage of self-study and cooperation. Therefore, it is a key point to seek a new way of teaching and develop Ss’ analysis ability.
3.教学目标(Teaching aims)
知识目标(Knowledge aims)
a. 重点词汇和短语
Vocabulary: Sunburnt, struggle, decade, super, output, crop, hunger, disturbing, expand, Vietman, circulate, satisfied, freedom Expressions :rid ... of, be satisfied with, lead a ... life, would rather, refer to, search for, thanks to, would…rather
b. 重点句子
Suggestions & advice: I would rather ... If I have a choice I’d choose because ...I don’t like ... because ... You need to ...I’d prefer ... because ...May I suggest ...It’s a great pity that ... Let me suggest Leng Jianli because...Should I/We ...? Perhaps we should consider Leng Jianli because...It’s better to ..But what/how about
能力目标(Ability aims)
Improve students’ abilities of listening, speaking and expressing their ownopinions
情感目标（Emotional aims）
?Inspire students’ patriotism and sympathy with others
4.教学重点和难点（teaching important points and difficult points）
#Teaching important points:
1.?????? Improve Ss’ speaking ability.
2.?????? Learn about peasants’ life and countryside
#Teaching difficult points:
1.?????? Learn new words and phrases about agriculture.
2.?????? Realize the importance of agriculture.
5.教学过程(Teaching procedures)
Step 1 Lead-in Poem By Li Shen Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray, Due to their toiling day. Step 2.Warming up (Questions) 1. Have you ever grown any plants? If so, what did you do to grow them? If not, what kind of plant would you like to grow? How will you grow it? 2. Have you ever been to the countryside? What did you do there? 3. Are you from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming? Step 3 Pre-reading and talking 1. Rice is a main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? Tips: It is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice every day throughout the world；suffer from starvation/die of hunger; panic, get into trouble 2. If you had the chance to help end hunger in the world, what would you do? 3. Do you know who Yuan Longping is ? A brief introduction: Yuan Longping is known as China’s “father of hybrid rice”. It’s said that in China, we eat depending on “Two Ping” ---- Deng Xiaoping, who made the policy of System of Production Responsibility, & Yuan Longping, who invented hybrid rice. Yuan Longping, who was born in September, 1930, graduated from Agriculture Department in Southwest Agricultural Institute. He has been working on agriculture education & the research into hybrid rice since he left the institute. In the 1960s, when China was suffering from serious famine, he came up with the idea of hybrid rice, which has a high yield ( or output). Ten years later, he succeeded in inventing a new species that produced a 20 percent higher yield than common types of rice. Yuan devoted himself to the research into agriculture, & was honored by UNESCO & FAO(联合国教科文组织）. Although he is 74 years old, he is still working on the research into agriculture.
板书设计：
Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray, Due to their toiling day.
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suffer from starvation/die of hunger; panic, get into trouble
is known as
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问题研讨(Problem study):
课堂提问
1. Have you ever grown any plants? If so, what did you do to grow them? If not, what kind of plant would you like to grow? How will you grow it? 2. Have you ever been to the countryside? What did you do there? 3. Are you from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming? 4. If you had the chance to help end hunger in the world, what would you do? 5. Do you know who Yuan Longping is ?
作业
用所给词的适当形式填空(A level)
1. It is no use_____________ ( complain ).
2. We succeeded in____________ (finish) the task ahead of time.
3. His ____________ (late) for class made his teacher very angry.
4. John finished_____________ (read) the book yesterday.
5. _____________ (collect) information is very important to businessmen.
6. Tom could not help____________ (jump) when he heard the news.
7. I should say sorry to Kate. I regret____________ (refuse) to help her that day.
8. Everybody was made unhappy because he insisted on____________ (stop) the work.
9. __________ (do) morning exercises is very important to us.
10. It is not worth___________ (see) the movie for the second time.
Keys: 1. be satisfied with 2. rid… of 3. lead a… life 4. would rather 5. refer to 6. graduate from 7. thanks to 8. insist on 9. care about 10. be rich in
词汇检测 用所给的单词或词组的正确形式填空(有多余选项)（B level）?
sunburnt, strain, output, export, rid ... of, would rather, increase, satisfied, super, lead ... a life, thanks to, struggle ?
1. With the development of science and technology China is _________ many kinds of electric products to developing countries.
2. Yao Ming plays basketball in NBA and he is a ______ basketball star.
3. _________ bad weather, our football match has to be put off.
4. Now the old couple __________ simple but happy ___ in the countryside.
5. Judging from his ________ face and arms, he works in the open air.
6. I’m very tired. I ____________ have a good sleep than go to the cinema.
7. The ______ of corn this year is double that of last year.
8. We ______ wheat to Russia and import silk from Japan.
9. The baseball league ___________ by adding four new terms.
10. The people _________ to get out of the burning building.
Keys; 1．Exporting 2．Super 3．Thanks to 4．is leading a life 5．sunburnt
6．would rather 7．output 8．Export 9．was strained 10．struggled
短语翻译（C level）
1 对….感到满意 2 摆脱；除去
3 过…的生活 4 宁愿；宁可
5 查阅；提到；指的是 6 毕业于
7 由于；多亏 8 坚持；要求
9 在乎；在意；喜欢 10 盛产；富含
Keys: 1. complaining 2. finishing 3. being late 4. reading 5. Collecting
6. jumping 7. refusing 8. stopping 9. Doing 10. seeing
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