Period 1
(一)明確目標
1. To learn to read statistical graphs.
2. To train listening and speaking skills.
3. To grasp the necessary language points connected with the content.
（二）整體感知
Step 1 lead in /presentation
With the time passing by, people’s living standard is becoming higher and higher. As a result their eating habits have charged a lot. Today we are going to know some details about it by watching the graphs.
（三）教學(xué)過程
Step 2 warming up by brain storming
Topic: agricultural produce, people’s eating habits, favorite foods and so on.
Step 3
Go through the questions by discussing in small groups with the help of the graphs. Learn with language point at the same time
Step 4
Present the results form each groups.
Step 5
After brief conclusion come to listening task.
Step 6
Acting out a short play. “how to make use of the land.”
（四）隨堂練習(xí)
用適當?shù)脑~填空
1. ____ the years people’s ___ ____ are charging. That’s ____ _____ produce has charged ___ three years.
2. Girls are come ____ ____ flowers.
3. Last year the number of death increased try 2-3 ___ ____ the year before last.
4. They reason ___ he did not come is quite clear.
5. The desire that they wanted to make good money ___ ___ a disaster.
6. Do you think the medicine will have a food ___ ___ the boy？
7. The villagers didn’t take care about the ____ of nature. They cut down as many tresses as ____ in time; the area was ____ ____ a desert.
8. The young man is the only one ____ for the Jole.
9. Never ___ ____ nature or you can’t escape ___ punished.
10. If I ____ a bird ___ ___ to the moon ---doesn’t it sound _____?
1. over eating habits why agricultural 2. compared to 3. compared to /with 4. why 5. led to 6. effect on 7. protection possible charged into 8. possible 9. go against being 10. were would nice
Period 2
(一) 明確目標
1. To train the abilities of skimming and scanning the passage.
2. To learn the differences between traditional agriculture and modern one in china meanwhile any necessary common knowledge about fertilization and irrigation.
3. To encourage the students to learn more for the future of our country.
（二）整體感知
Step 1 Presentation
Let’s look at the pictures and reconstruct the text by comparing traditional and modern farming.
（三）教學(xué)過程
Step 2
Skimming the reading material as soon as possible and then finish the past reading, some more questions may be designed by teachers.
Step 3
Read the passage again and find out the main idea to each paragraph.
Step 4
Languages focus .ask the student to pick out the useful expressions from the text if possible and then explain briefly in their own words.
Step 5
Listen to the tape of the text. If time permit, have some students retell.
(四) 隨堂練習(xí)
Fill in the blanks with proper words:
1. The biggest problem of Chinese farmers is the ___ of ___ land. Using the ___ technologies, Chinese scientists grow vegetables _____. The ____ of these vegetables are not planted in earth but ____ in water that ___all the nutrients they ___ to grow. In, a kind of tomato was ___ that was very different from any ___ before. It was developed ___ a technique known as GM.
參考答案
1. shortage arable latest greenhouse roots hang contains need
2. developed grown using
Period 3
（一） 明確目標
1. Word formation
2. Grammar focus: the use of “it” for emphasis
（二）教學(xué)重點及知識點
參看輕松學(xué)習(xí)
（三）教學(xué)過程
Step 1
Have a dictation of useful expressions and phrases. And then check them in class.
Step 2
Come to the practice shown in the student’s book.
（四）總結(jié)，擴展
Step 3
Ask the Ss translate the following sentences into English.
1. _____ （眾所周知）that the Olympic game will the held in Beijing in five years.
2. ____ （就我所之）more advanced technical information ____ （沒引進）from abroad in the 1980s.
3. The officer stared at the soldier and then left the room ____（一言不發(fā)）.
4. The servant ____（忠實于）his master and ____ his wishes.
5. ____ （為了）help the children in the poor areas, the government set up the fund.
6. ____ （最有效的方法）to protect the wild animals from dying out is to forbid hunting.
7. “GM”_____ （代表）genetically modified.
參考答案：
1. It is well know 2. As far as a know/was thought in 3. without any words 4. was devoted to, carried out 5. In order to 6. The most effective way 7. stands for
Period 4
(一) 明確目標
1. Get the students to realize the great contribution Chinese
2. Train the ability of writing
（二）整體感知
Step 1 presentation
TaskⅠ have you heard the name Jia SiXie before?
What was he famous for? What was the great (work) book he wrote? Do you know what it was about?
TaskⅠ encourage the students to find out any popular problems about the weather or farming they have know。
（三）教學(xué)過程
Step 2
After the team work, read the passage carefully to search more details about the topic.
Step 3 writing skill
TaskⅠwrite a brief introduction to Yia SiXie and his work.
TaskⅡ imagine you own a vegetable garden on something like that try to write a plan for it.
Step 4 check the writing