A Pioneer for All People
说课内容
教材分析
本文选自人教版普通高中课程标准实验教科书英语必修4 第二单Working the land。本单元的中心话题是农业。
本节课是这一单元的第二课时，是一节阅读课。文章主要介绍的是袁隆平的生平和他的杂交水稻。
知识：文章中的黑体字生词和词组，学生之前 已经学过：struggle, circulating, rid...of…, down, be satisfied with, would rather
阅读技能：大部分学生在快速阅读获取文章大意时有障碍，需要老师提供更多的帮助。部分学生根据上下文和构词法推测、理解单词词义的能力还有待提高，因此学生在阅读时老师应给予适当的帮助。
情感：部分学生在用英语与别人交流时存在害羞、拘谨心理，需要为他们提供更多运用语言的机会。并在语言训练过程中帮助学生欣赏袁隆平的伟大精神以及思考资源现状。

知识与技能
1.学习与农业和水稻相关的词汇，如：export, hunger, chemical等；
2.了解袁隆平的生平
3. 能够通过略读和细读训练，掌握阅读技巧
过程与方法
通过阅读技能的训练帮助学生养成科学的阅读方法
情感态度价值观
1.学习袁隆平无私奉献伟大精神。
2.通过对话题的讨论，提高对农业的认识，思考资源短缺的现状。节约粮食，珍惜资源。
3.培养学生的合作意识与竞争意识和“合作学习”的习惯。
教学目标
教学重点
1.通过阅读文章让学生了解袁农平；
2.训练学生的阅读技巧，提高阅读能力。
教学难点
学生学会提取、筛选和重组文章中的信息，并灵活运用于语言实践中，提高阅读理解能力和语言综合能力。
重
点
难
点
任务型教学法
情感激励教学法
多媒体教学
合作学习法
略读和扫描
教学方法
教 学 过 程
Enjoy a poem
By Li Shen
Farmers weeding at noon,
Sweat down the field soon.
Who knows food on a tray,
Due to their toiling day.
Do you know the Chinese poem?
What is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries?
Rice. It is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice every day throughout the world.
If there was no rice one day, what would happen?
If that happened, people might die of hunger. The whole world would get into trouble.
Hunger
Six million children under the age of five die every year as a result of hunger. One child dies every five seconds.
Seeing this, what can we do？
Today our world houses more than 7 billion people.
A Pioneer For All People
What’s the text mainly about?
A. A brief introduction to Yuan Longping
and his super hybrid rice.
B. How to rid the world of hunger.
C. How super hybrid rice was developed.
D. How super hybrid rice was circulated to
other countries.
Reading Comprehension I
Choose the best answer.
Para. 1
Para. 2
Para. 3
Para. 4
A. Dr Yuan’s dreams
B. Dr Yuan’s personality
C. Dr Yuan’s appearance
and his achievement
D. Dr Yuan’s biography
Match the following headings with the
right paragraphs.
Reading Comprehension II
Para.1 Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement
Q1: What does Dr Yuan look like?
He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim, strong body. He is just like those of millions of Chinese farmers.
Q2: What is his achievement?
He grows what is called super hybrid rice, which makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields.
Scanning
Para2
a. He was born into a poor farmer’s family in 1930 .
b. He graduated from Southwest Agricultural college.
c. In 1950, Chinese farmers produced 50 million tons of rice.
d. 200 millon tons of rice was produced by growing  his hybrid rice.
e. He searched a way to increase rice harvests without expanding the area of fields.
f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating  his knowledge in less developed countries.
Proper order:
Put Dr Yuan’s life experience in right order.
a
c
b
e
d
f
Which of the following description about Dr Yuan’s personality is not true?
He is satisfied with his life because he is
now rich and famous.
B. He cares little about money and fame.
C. He would rather work than lead a
comfortable life.
D. He enjoys a simpler life than most rich  and famous people.
Para. 3 Dr Yuan’s personality
His dreams
Para4
1) The first dream
2) The second dream
Produce a kind of rice that could feed more people
·As huge as a peanut
The first dream
As tall as sorghum
As big as a corn

To export his rice so that it can be grown all over the world
The second dream
Name:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:
Education:

Dream:
Yuan Longping
Chinese
84
scientist/farmer
graduated from Southwest
Agriculture College in 1953
to export his hybrid rice so that it
can be grown around the globe
Reading Comprehension IV
Complete the following notes about Yuan
Longping.
Achievement:
Hobbies:
listening to violin music,
playing mah-jong,
swimming
reading
in 1974, developed hybrid
rice which produces 1/3
more than normal rice
Why could Dr Yuan achieve success? Use a few words to describe Dr Yuan’s personality.
intelligent
diligent
determined
motivated
responsible
unselfish
Even if Dr. Yuan’s dreams come true, can this really solve starvation?
Discussion
Clear Your Plate
布置作业
作业一：
◆Surf the internet to search more information about Dr. Yuan or any other great figures.
作业二：
◆Write a short passage (choose one):
(1) My view on Dr. Yuan
(2) How to save energy in our daily life.
板书设计
时间、过程
疆域
Unit2 PartⅡ A Pioneer for All People

Name:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:
Education:
Dream:
Achievement:
Hobbies:
Homwork:

Select some important language points in the passage yourself, and share them with your group members.
谢谢！