BOOK 4 UNIT 2 WORKING THE LAND Period One Warming up and Reading

学习目标 1. 学会分析文章结构，了解 文章细节，并掌握文章大意； 2. 了解袁隆平的生平并体会 和学习他的崇高的思想境界， 学会用所学知识叙述人物； 3. 认知、学习重点单词、短 语的用法.

重点难点 了解本单元的 主要内容，背 诵经典句式， 培养阅读能力

新知预习  1. 英汉互译  1) be satisfied with _____________  2) thanks to ____________  3) would rather _______________  4) struggle for ___________  5) by occupation _____________  6) 渴望得到 ____________  7) 耕种土地 ______________  8 ）用 … 装备 … ________________  9) 与 … 战斗 / 斗争 _____________  10) 摆脱；除去 __________  11) output n._____________ 12) hunger n._________

 2. 速读课文，回答问题  Do you know Yuan Longping? What do you think of him?  ____________________________________________ __________________________________________  Do you want to be a scientist on farming in the future? Give your reasons.  ____________________________________________ ___________________________________________

课堂探究  【探究 1 】 Read the text quickly and try to find the main idea for each paragraph.  Para.1 A. Dr Yuan’s dreams.  Para.2 B. Dr Yuan’s personality.  Para.3 C. Dr Yuan’s biography( 传记 ).  Para.4 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement.

 【探究 2 】 Read the text and finish the choices:  1) Read the whole text and find out the general idea: It ’s about____  A. a farmer named Yuan Longping B. how Yuan Longping became rich and famous  C. an agricultural pioneer named Yuan Longping who worked hard to produce a new strain of rice  D. a new strain of rice which is called super hybrid rice  2) Which of the following is not the hobbies of Dr. Yuan?  A. Playing mah-jong B. Swimming C. Listening to violin music D. Listening to rock-and-roll.

 3) The main idea of the last paragraph is that _______.  A. Yuan Longping always has a lot of dreams when sleeping  B. dreams can help people achieve greater achievements  C. Yuan Longping’s other dream is to export his rice.  D. Yuan Longping proves that one dream is not always enough.  4) From the text, we can know that _________.  A. Yuan Longping found a way to increase rice harvest by expanding the area of fields.  B. Yuan Longping is satisfied with his life because he is famous and rich  C. in the 1950s, many parts of the countryside were short of food.  D. his way of increasing rice harvest only works in some Asian countries.

 【探究 3 】 Careful reading: Put the following sentences in proper order.  a. He was born into a poor farmer’s family.  b. He graduated from Southwest Agriculture college.  c. Chinese farmers produced fifty million tons of rice.  d. He became the first agricultural pioneer  e. He searched for a way to increase rice outputs without expanding the area of fields.  f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries.  Key: _______________________________________

【探究 4 】佳句赏析  1. Dr Yuan Longping grows what is called super hybrid rice. (P10, L4)  ( 译 )______________________________________ ____________________________  解析：句中 what 引导 _________ 从句，且 what 在 从句中作主语。 What =the thing that 。再如： I don’t understand what the engineer means, but I’ve got a rough idea of the project plan. 我不明白这位 工程师的意思，但我对这个项目计划有了一个 粗略的了解。

 2. Have you ever grown any plants? If so, what did you do to grow them? (P9, L3)  ( 译 ) ____________________________________________ ____________________________  解析：句中 If so 其中 so 替代了前面的句子，即 If you have ever grown some plants 。一般来说， so 常用在 动词 think, believe, hope 等之后，或用在 if ， even 之后， 表示 “ 象那样的，如前所说的 ” ，用于代替已陈述的 事。再如：  “Can you pass the exam?” “I hope so.” “ 你能通过这次 考试吗？ ” “ 希望能够通过考试。 ”

 3. Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger. （ P10, L22 ）  ( 译 ) ______________________________________________________ _________________________  解析：句中 thanks to 意为 “ 由于 ” ， “ 因为 ” ， “ 幸亏 ” ，后面通常接 名词或代词； to rid the world of hunger 为不定式短语，作名词 battle 的 ________ ；其中 rid sb./sth. of 意为 “____________” 。再 如：  It was thanks to his help that I succeeded. 多亏了他的帮助，我才 得以成功。  练习： It’s hard for the people________________________( 难消 除世界上的战争 ).

【探究 5 】课文研读  1. Find out the sentences in the text which have similar meanings with the following ones  1) He cares little about spending money on himself or living a comfortable life.  ______________________________________________________ __________  2) Dr Yuan awoke from his dream hoping to produce a kind of rice feeding more people.  ______________________________________________________ _________  2. Translate the sentence “ Just dreaming for things, however cost nothing.”  ______________________________________________________ ___________

达标练习  1. ___________ _______( 多亏了 )their timely help, the project was a great success.  2. Our teacher _______ _______ ________ ( 非常满意 )what we had done last term.  3. Liu Hulan _____________ _________________( 宁可 )die than give in to the enemies.  4. This investment program will surely ________ ________( 导致， 致使 )the creation of hundreds of new jobs.  5. The mice in the room must _____________ ______________ ____________( 清除掉 ) as soon as possible.  6. As we all know, sports and games can _________ _________( 强 身健体 )our bodies.