Unit 2 Working the land 教案2.docVIP

Unit 2 Working the land 教案2 (CHEMICAL OR ORGANIC FARMING PART 2) Introduction You are advised to lead in by talking about farming. Then help students with their reading of CHEMICAL OR ORGANIC FARMING. Translation of the text into Chinese is proposed. Objectives To help students make use of what they learned in this unit in communication To help students use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing Procedures Warming up by talking about farming. Do you know what fertilizer is? How many kinds of fertilizers do farmers use? (There are two kinds. They are chemical fertilizers and natural ones.) 2. Reading and underlining Now let’s go on with CHEMICAL OR ORGANIC FARMING. Please turn to Page 14. Read the passage quickly and underline all the useful expressions and collocations in it. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework. Collocations from CHEMICAL OR ORGANIC FARMING (II) build up, focus on, lead to, keep free from/ of, in addition to, damage to, wash off, carry away, prefer to, avoid doing sth. Organic farming Organic farming is simply farming without using any chemicals. 3. Reading and translating Next you are going to read the text CHEMICAL OR ORGANIC FARMING and translate it into Chinese. 4. Speaking English Read the passage again and find the answers to the questions: 1). What is organic farming? (Farming without using chemicals). 2). What is chemical farming? (Farming by using chemicals.) 3). What is the goal of using organic farming methods? (To grow good food and avoid damaging the environment or people’s health.) . What’s the disadvantage of chemical fertilizers? a. Damage the land by killing the helpful bacteria and pests as well as the harmful ones. b. Lead to cancer or other illness. c. Food grown with chemical fertilizers look beautiful, but inside there is usually more water than vitamins and minerals. . What is the advantage of organic farming? a. Keep the soil rich in minerals and so more fertile. b. Redu