【正文】 nge their experience with each other. By reading they will realize the role that agriculture plays in human life. In fact this world faces a serious problem—starvation. So after reading the passage about Dr Yuan students will know the importance of his achievement to man. Of course they will learn from Dr Yuan some noble character. Teaching important points 教學(xué)重點(diǎn) a. Help to prehend the text and grasp the main idea of the text. b. Grasp the usage of some words and expressions. c. How to help students make up their minds to make contributions to motherland in the future like Dr Yuan. Teaching difficult points 教學(xué)難點(diǎn) a. How to help students learn more about agriculture. b. Help students really master the usage of words and expressions. Teaching methods 教學(xué)方法 Talking, questioningandanswering activity and reading. Teaching aids 教具準(zhǔn)備 A tape recorder, a projector and a puter. Teaching procedures amp。amp。 ways 教學(xué)過(guò)程與方式 Step 1 Greeting and leading in look at the two pictures on Page 9 and answer the questions: 1. What are the people doing? you tell me something about rice? .Step 2 Warming up : (group work) Have you ever grown any plants? If so, what did you do to grow them? If not, what kind of plant would you like to grow? How will you grow it? Step 3 Prereading The purpose of this step is to let students know the importance of rice. By answering the two questions, students can easily understand why we call Dr Yuan Longping a pioneer for all people, and why he devotes all his life to the rice research. do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? 2. If you had the chance to do one thing to help end famine in the world, what would you do? Step 4 Fast Reading The purpose of fast reading is to let students find some useful information, and get familiar with the text. So in this step, some questions are designed for students, so that they can easily find the answers and finish the reading task. 1. What does Dr Yuan look like? 2. What’s his achievement? 3. What do you think of him? Step 5 Careful Reading and Explanation students 3 minutes to read and find the main idea of the text. While students are doing this, show the chart on the screen. After they have finished their task, ask them to look at the screen and fill in it. Show the chart on the screen. A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE 1. He wants everyone to call him a farmer. 2. His biography. 3. His personality. 4. His dreams. Five minutes later, teachers can ask some of them to fulfil the chart. They can use words, phrases, or sentences to do this. Here is a sample for teacher to refer to. points: 1)“…for that’s how he regards himself”. “how he regards himself”, means how he thinks of himself. It refers to a person’s selfimage . 2) “…h(huán)as more, rather than fewer troubles.”? while “ …h(huán)as more, rather than fewer troubles” means that you expect fewer troubles but in face you get more than you thought you would. 3) struggle v to make great efforts . They have struggled for years to free their country from the enemy. A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE 1. He wants everyone to call him a farmer. (1) A scientist works the land. (2) Sunburnt face and arms, slim, strong body. (3) Grow hybrid rice. (4) The first agricultural pioneer. 2. His biography. (1) In 1931, born. (2) In 1953, graduated and devoted his life to finding ways to grow rice. (3) Last year, twenty billion tons of rice was produced. Now, Dr Yuan is circulating his knowledge. 3. His personality. He is satisfied with his life. Because he doesn’t like money and fame. 4. His dream