Unit 18 高一新教材
The Second Period
Teaching aims:
1. To improve students’ ability of reading comprehension through reading activities
2. To enlarge students’ knowledge about the traditional agriculture and modern agriculture in China
3. To get students to know the problems of China’s agriculture
Teaching important and difficult points:
1. Knowing some knowledge about the agriculture in China
2. Knowing about the modern technology in agriculture
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Lead-in
1. Today we are going to learn a passage titled MODERN AGRICULTURE. Can you guess what it lays emphasis on, modern or agriculture?
(Modern.)
2. Then can you imagine what traditional agriculture and modern agriculture are like?
Step 2. Pre-reading
1. Now let’s look at the pictures in pre-reading.
Pictures 1 - 4 show us what traditional agriculture is like, and Pictures 5 - 8 show us what modern agriculture is like.
Can you tell us what the advantages and disadvantages of each way are?
advantages disadvantages
traditional agriculture cheap, no pollution low-volume production
modern agriculture high-volume production expensive, pollution
2. What other changes have happened on farms in the last 100 years?
( the use of insect killers, the use of food supplements in animal food, etc.)
Step 3. Reading
1. Listening
Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1) What helps Chinese farmers produce enough food for the largest population in the world?
(High technology.)
2) What does GM mean?
(“G” stands for “genetically”; “M” stands for “modified” (changed))
3) What is the other name of “ gold rice ”?
(GM rice.)
2. Skimming
Read the passage quickly and tell whether the following sentences are “T” or “F”:
1) For thousands of years traditional agriculture in China changed very much. (F)
2) In China, only seven percent of the land cannot be used for farming. (F)
3) Farmers in China have long used techniques to make their land produce more. (T)
4) More advanced technical information was brought in from abroad in 1980. (F)
5) It was from the early 1990s that scientists started to develop new techniques to increase agricultural production without harming the environment. (T)
6) New techniques should increase agricultural production but also be friendly to the environment. (T)
7) Future agriculture should depend on high technology without traditional methods. (F)
8) The biggest problem of Chinese farmers is the shortage of money and modern techniques. (F)
9) Today fewer vegetables are not grown in gardens but in greenhouses where they are protected from the wind, rain and insects. (F)
10) GM tries to create plants that produce more and bigger fruit. (F)
3. Scanning
1) Read the whole text and find out the main idea of each paragraph.
Para 1: Gives us a general idea about the agricultural situation in China and its problem.
Para 2: Tells us the traditional techniques to make the land produce more.
Para 3: New techniques should increase agricultural production but also be friendly to the environment.
The Second Period
Teaching aims:
1. To improve students’ ability of reading comprehension through reading activities
2. To enlarge students’ knowledge about the traditional agriculture and modern agriculture in China
3. To get students to know the problems of China’s agriculture
Teaching important and difficult points:
1. Knowing some knowledge about the agriculture in China
2. Knowing about the modern technology in agriculture
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Lead-in
1. Today we are going to learn a passage titled MODERN AGRICULTURE. Can you guess what it lays emphasis on, modern or agriculture?
(Modern.)
2. Then can you imagine what traditional agriculture and modern agriculture are like?
Step 2. Pre-reading
1. Now let’s look at the pictures in pre-reading.
Pictures 1 - 4 show us what traditional agriculture is like, and Pictures 5 - 8 show us what modern agriculture is like.
Can you tell us what the advantages and disadvantages of each way are?
advantages disadvantages
traditional agriculture cheap, no pollution low-volume production
modern agriculture high-volume production expensive, pollution
2. What other changes have happened on farms in the last 100 years?
( the use of insect killers, the use of food supplements in animal food, etc.)
Step 3. Reading
1. Listening
Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1) What helps Chinese farmers produce enough food for the largest population in the world?
(High technology.)
2) What does GM mean?
(“G” stands for “genetically”; “M” stands for “modified” (changed))
3) What is the other name of “ gold rice ”?
(GM rice.)
2. Skimming
Read the passage quickly and tell whether the following sentences are “T” or “F”:
1) For thousands of years traditional agriculture in China changed very much. (F)
2) In China, only seven percent of the land cannot be used for farming. (F)
3) Farmers in China have long used techniques to make their land produce more. (T)
4) More advanced technical information was brought in from abroad in 1980. (F)
5) It was from the early 1990s that scientists started to develop new techniques to increase agricultural production without harming the environment. (T)
6) New techniques should increase agricultural production but also be friendly to the environment. (T)
7) Future agriculture should depend on high technology without traditional methods. (F)
8) The biggest problem of Chinese farmers is the shortage of money and modern techniques. (F)
9) Today fewer vegetables are not grown in gardens but in greenhouses where they are protected from the wind, rain and insects. (F)
10) GM tries to create plants that produce more and bigger fruit. (F)
3. Scanning
1) Read the whole text and find out the main idea of each paragraph.
Para 1: Gives us a general idea about the agricultural situation in China and its problem.
Para 2: Tells us the traditional techniques to make the land produce more.
Para 3: New techniques should increase agricultural production but also be friendly to the environment.
