教学设计方案Lesson 30

Teaching aims

1.To train the ability of skimming the text to find the general idea and scanning the text to locate the information quickly.

2. To learn how to use the following words and expressions:

room ,discover, arrive, make into

3. To review the Attributive Clauses.

4. To let the Ss know some farm products.

Step 1 Revision

1. Check the homework in the workbook first.

2. Revise some new words suiting the pictures.

Step2 Presentation

1. Ask the Ss the following questions

1) What’s your favorite food?

2) What food do people like in Shanghai/Sichuan/Tibet/the USA, etc. ?

3) Do you like corn?

Step3.Listening

T play the tape to the Ss, then try to ask them the below.

1) When was corn first brought to China?

2) Can you name some of the plants that were found in America?

Answers: 1)Corn was first brought to China about 450 years ago. 2) For example, beans, potatoes and other different fruits.

Step 4 Reading

T will give the Ss a few minutes to read it, then say something about the useful plant corn.

2) Ask the Ss to skim the text to find the general idea.

Answers:

The passage talks about the food in the world. It tells us how corn, tomatoes and other plants were discovered. It mainly tells us how corn was discovered and taken to the other parts of the world and the my of making corn food.

Step 4. Language study

Get the SB to look through the text and explain some language points and difficult sentences, if necessary the T can explain them again.

1) There was not enough room.

2) discovered the tomato

3) an open fire =a fire that bums in the open air

4) got angry =become angry

Step 5Workbook

Get the Ss to do Ex.2 &3 on Page 31 and Ex. 1 &2 on Page 94.