Teaching Plan
Teaching aims:
Cognitive goals: To help students review the text and learn vocabulary
Ability goals: To encourage students to express their idea by using key words and phrases
Emotion goals: To arouse students’ awareness and pride of modern farming in our country
Teaching Procedures:
Teaching steps Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Purpose
Pre-reading Introduce the topic and today’s goals Try to recall what they
have learnt and know what
to learn today
To remind the Ss of the
topic and the learning
goals today
While-reading 1. Game one: to guess the word
farming out of the clue words
Help Ss learn some other words
relating to farming (nourish, seed, soil,
fertilizer, etc.)
2. Help Ss learn and practice the
phrase--- make the best use of
3. Game Two: to guess the word
facility out of the pictures
4. Help Ss learn and practice the
word--- involve, unusual.
Get them to learn about the word
“profitable”
5. Help Ss learn and practice the
phrase--- bring benefits to
Get them to learn about the phrase
“varieties of”.
6. Help Ss to learn and practice the
phrase--- used to.
Get them to learn about the word
“backward”.
Do word-guessing games
Try to locate the specific
information and learn the
key words
Learn the relevant words
and practice using the key
words in real- life situation
To deepen students’
understanding of the topic
To better understand and
practice the target words.
Post-reading 1. Fill in the blanks to complete the
summary of the text.
2.Group work--- Promoting your farm
Discuss in groups and give
a presentation to the class
To consolidate the
students’ understanding of
the text and target words.
Assignment 1.Read the text aloud after the tape recording
2. Finish Ex D—E on the textbook
3. Search for more information about Sunqiao and share with
classmates
Task one: Summary
farming nourish fertilizer facility involve profitable unusual backward make the
best use of varieties of bring benefits to used to
Sunqiao is both an enterprise and an experimental research __________. The research _________
making green agriculture more __________ and finding new technology for __________. The most
_________aspect of the research in Sunqiao is the research on white agriculture. With white
agriculture, plants are grown in water instead of soil. They are only _________ with a mixture of
water and ___________. Sunqiao _______________ its research results and technology to produce
____________ seeds and vegetables, which eventually _______________ tens of thousands of
farming families. People living in cities ________ think that farming is boring and _________. And
they are amazed at the fast development of Sunqiao, which has brought high tech to agriculture.
Task two: Promoting your farm
Situation: Nowadays, farm tourism is very hot. People living in cities would like to spend weekends
on farms, enjoying beautiful scenery and fresh food. Suppose you are an owner of a new
farm. You also want to attract tourists to your farm. Make a lecture to promote your
farm.
Take the following questions into consideration while preparing your lecture.
1. What is your farm’s name?
2. What facilities does your farm provide?
3. How is agriculture practiced?
4. What is unusual about your farm?
Welcome to _____________
Ladies and gentlemen,
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