甘肃省永昌县第一中学高中英语必修四：Unit 2 教案4.docVIP

TOPIC: Extensive Reading DESIGNER: Li Na TEACHING PROCEDURES Step I预习检测(学生活动) 1. Check the homework exercises. 2. Know something about Organic farming and what is the importance of organic farming. Step II展示目标，导入新课（教师活动） Lead in Let students to brainstorm the following questions: 1. In the Reading part we learnt something about planting rice,but do you know what is the best way to plant rice? 2. Which kind of farming makes green food? Chemical or Organic Farming? Step III 当堂学习，互动探究（生生互动） Reading Step 1 Reading for structure[来源:Zxxk.Com] Read the text quickly and write down the main idea for each paragraph. Check your answers in groups . Para I: The effect of using chemical fertilizer . Para 2: The problem caused by chemical fertilizer. Para 3:What is organic farming.[来源:Z_xx_k.Com] Para 4: Organic farmers use other methods to keep the soil fertile. Step2 Reading for details Read the passage again,and try to find all the answers for the following questions: 1. What is organic farming? 2. What problems are caused by using chemical fertilizers? 3. Why do organic farmers grow peas or soybeans after corn or wheat? Suggested answers:[来源:学科网] 1. Organic farming means growing crops without chemical fertilizers. 2. There are three problems. First, chemical fertilizers affect the soil and the water supply badly. Second, they allow farmers to grow the same crop year after year and exhaust the soil. Third, they kill both helpful and harmful pests.[来源:学§科§网] 3. Farmers grow peas or soybeans after corn or wheat so that peas and beans can put minerals back into the soil, making it rich and healthy and ready to grow more wheat or corn. Step 3 Extensive Reading Advantages of organic farming[来源:Z。xx。k.Com] Reason 1.Farmers use natural waste from animals. 1.This makes the soil richer in minerals and so more fertile. 2.The soil is not exhausted. 2.Peas and soybeans renew the minerals in the soil and it becomes rich and healthy. 3.They use the soil to best advantage