Unit 2 Working the land
Period III
Learning about Language
Teaching goals 教学目标
1. Target language 目标语言
disturbing, expand, output, struggle, battles, grain, crops, decade, equip
2. Ability goals 能力目标
Enable Ss to master the use of the vocabulary and expressions.
3. Learning ability goals 学能目标
Help Ss learn how to enlarge the words and structures.
Teaching important and difficult points 教学重难点
How to grasp the words and phrases and be able to use them freely.
Teaching methods 教学方法
Show questions and finish all the tasks.
Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方法
StepⅠFind the word or phrase from the text for each of these meanings.
1. brown (skin) from spending too much time in the sun
2. to make something or somebody free of
3. to become larger in size, number or amount
4. to make information and ideas known to many people
5. would prefer to
6. to try extremely hard to achieve something
7. to send things to foreign countries for sale
8. pleased by having what one wants or needs
9. to provide with things necessary for a certain purpose
10. plants grown in large amounts by farmers
11. because of
  Keys: sunburnt, rid…of, expand, circulate, would rather, struggle, export, satisfied with, equip, crop, thanks to
StepⅡFind words from the previous pages of this unit to replace the underlined words. You may need to change the words’ forms to fit.
1. According to the WHO’s information, about 1.8 million people across the world die each year from diseases caused by unsafe food and water.
2. Different kinds of strong corn, another hybrid grain, has been developed by scientists of many different races.
3. Not having enough food leads to poor health and, therefore, sickness.
4. Over 56 percent of the people in a small Southeast Asian country are in jobs related to agriculture.
5. With the open conditions in today’s international business world, hybrid grains can be sold and sent abroad to countries around the world.
  Keys: statistics, globe   
      super, nationalities
      Hunger, disease
      Vietnam, occupations
      freedom, exported
Step Ⅲ Complete the passage with the words below in their proper forms.
disturbing  expand    output    struggle battles    grain    crops    decade  equip
In the past _______, some of the farmers in the west of China have met with some success in the _______ against the __________desert. _________ with new scientific farming methods, they have been able to use less farmland than in the past. Their _______ of _____ and other ______, however, is still the same, which makes it possible for them to use the remaining farmland for planting trees. These and other farmers are starting to win small ______ in the treat war against the ________ growth of the desert.
  Keys: decade, struggle, expanding, Equipped, output, grain, crops, battles, disturbing
Using Language
Teaching goals 教学目标land
1. Target language 目标语言
a. 重点词语
chemical, bacteria, pest, lead to, discovery, nutrition, keep…free from, root
b. 重点句型
With these discoveries, some farmer and many customers are beginning to turn to organic farming.
Over the past half century, using chemical fertilizers has become very common in farming.
2. Ability goals 能力目标
Enable Ss to master the main idea of the text and know the ways of organizing articles.
3. Learning ability goals 学能目标
Help Ss learn how to enlarge the words and structures of the same topic.
Teaching important and difficult points 教学重难点
1. How to grasp the main idea of the passage.
2. How to grasp the words and phrases and be able to use them freely.
Teaching methods 教学方法
Show questions, read fast, find the main ideas, and then read carefully and finish all the tasks.
Teaching aids 教学准备
A recorder and a projector.
Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方法
StepⅠLook at the pictures.
What is the substance we put on the soil which makes crops grow?
How many kinds of fertilizers do farmers use?   
Which kind do farmers use when they are doing organic farming?
Do you know about organic farming?
StepⅡReading
1. Scan the passage and get the main idea.
Chemical fertilizers can cause many problems, so organic farming is becoming more popular.
2. Answer the following questions after read the passage.
1) Why are chemical fertilizers so popular in farming today?
  2) What problems can be caused by using chemical fertilizers?
  3) What is organic farming?   
  4) What is the main reason for using organic farming methods?   

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