初中牛津译林版Unit 2 Great people教案

Task

Teaching aims:

1. Learn the information about Yuan Longping and complete an article about him.

2. Write an article about the great person you admire.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Warming up

Let Ss look at Task A:

Amy wants to write about Yuan Longping, a rice scientist.

Give Ss some pictures and a video about Yuan Longping.

Step 2 New words

Read aloud the new words and tell the meanings of each word.

Step 3 Reading

Read the information about Yuan Longping and answer the following questions.

1. Who is Yuan Longping?

2. Why did he begin research into hybrid rice?

3. Why does Amy admire him?

Step 4 Language points

1. … happen to find a natural hybrid rice plant what had many advantages over others

  happen to do sth.  碰巧做某事

  e.g. 我们打电话时她刚巧不在家。

      She happened to be out when we called.

2. Contribution: his achievements have increased rice production by 20%—30%...

  contribution   n.  贡献

  make a contribution to sth. / doing sth.  为……作出贡献

  e.g. 每个人都应当为保护环境做贡献。

      Everyone should make a contribution to protecting the environment. 

increase   vt. 增加

increase by …     增加了……

increase to …      增加到……

e.g. 这个镇的人口增长了5%。

      The population of this town has increase by 5%. 　　

      人口已经增长到了180万。

      The population has increased to 1.8 million.

Step 5 Work on Task B

Let Ss complete the article and check the answers.

Step 6 Writing

Sum up how to write an article about a person you admire.

(1) Who is he/she?

(2) When was he/she born?

(3) What did he/she do?

(4) Why do you admire him/her?

Homework

1. Complete the written task.

2. Finish the exercises on the workbook.