Unit 6 The changing colors of our crops
                   
Teaching aims:
1. To help the students have a good understanding of the structure and the content of the text.
2. To encourage the students to learn to use some new words and expressions to report news.
3. To lead the students to be interested in high-tech in agriculture.
Teaching aid: Multi-media
Teaching procedure:
Teaching Steps
T’s activities
Ss’ Activities
Purposes
Lead-in
Ask students to name the vegetables on the screen.
Name the vegetables on the screen.
To raise Ss’ interest in the main topic of the text.
Pre-reading
Ask questions
Read title, picture and the introduction and then answer questions.
To activate the students’ thinking about agriculture.
While-reading
1. 1. Ask students to read Para 1.
Guide students to identify different agriculture.
2. Ask students to read Para 2.
Guide them to further understand white agriculture.
3. Ask Ss to read  Para 3 and 4.
Make students know more about green and white agriculture and Sunqiao.
4. Ask students to read Para 5.
1. Read Para 1 to identify green, blue and white agriculture.
2. Compare green agriculture with white agriculture.
3. Read Para 3 and 4 and complete the table.
4. Complete the table.
To help Ss to know differences between different agriculture.
To help Ss get to know about the differences between two kinds of agriculture.
To help students to understand what green and white agriculture can benefit people.
To help students to understand what white agriculture can bring to city people.
Post-reading
1. Encourage students to make a report.
Prepare a report by using the words and phrases.
To consolidate the use of the words and phrases.
Assignment
To finish Ex E and improve the presentation.
Work sheet
white food
Green agriculture
White agriculture
Achievements
(1)
(2)
(3)
(1)
(2
(3)
Influence 
People won’t worry about poisonous spray.
(1)
(2)
News on Sunqiao
Good News, everyone! I’m proud to announce there’s a hi-tech strawberry!
Several years ago, Sunqiao started to __________ white agriculture and it employed a new __________ method of farming. The new method ____________________ water and __________.
Introduce how the strawberry is grown.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
People throughout the city are attracted by them. Introduce how the strawberry boosts tourism and economy. ____________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
Word bank
hi-tech    practise      profitable    fertilizer  nourish    profitable 
varieties of  make the best use of  boring and backward   regard…as… 
hold up …
教学目标：
1. To help the students have a good understanding of the structure and the content of the text.
2. To encourage the students to learn to use some new words and expressions to report news.
3. To lead the students to be interested in high-tech in agriculture.
教材分析：
本节课是新课阅读教学，所选用的教材为牛津英语上海版高一下半学期第六课 The changing colors of crops。本单元主题为科技，本课的阅读材料为一篇新闻报道，新闻报道的篇幅较长，内有不少新词和短语。针对本文的特点，在讲解本课时引导学生关注文本特征结构，整体理解课文大意，并通过对文本内涵深层次的把握和学生生活的紧密相连，激发学生对农业，对高科技产生兴趣，使得枯燥的文章变得生动起来。
学生分析：
本课的授课对象为七宝中学高一实验班的学生，学生的词汇量较大，阅读理解能力较强，但口头表达能力较弱。而本课最后的产出为新闻报道，对学生来说有一定难度。
重点难点：
1.重点
理解课文内容：白农业的含义和与传统农业的区别。
2.难点
理解新闻报道的特点。
运用课文中学习到的新词汇进行新闻报道。
活动1：
Lead-in
Ask students to name the vegetables on the screen to arouse students’ interest.
活动2
Pre-reading
1.Ask students to read the title, picture and the introduction and ask questions:
(1) What topic will be discussed?
(2) What kind of article is it?
(3)Which place may the passage focus on?
活动3
1.Ask students to read Para 1 to identify green, blue and white agriculture.
(1)What does blue agriculture refer to?
(2)What does green agriculture refer to?
(3)Predict what white agriculture refers to?
2.Ask students to read Para 2 to compare green agriculture with white agriculture.
(1)Where are the plants grown?
(2)Where can the plants get nutrition?
(3)Where is green/white agriculture most useful?
3.Ask students to read Para 3 and 4 and complete the table.
Green agriculture
White agriculture
Achievements
(1)
(2)
(3)
(1)
(2
(3)
Influence 
People won’t worry about poisonous spray.
(1)
(2)
活动4
Post-reading
Ask students to prepare a report by using the words and phrases.
News on Sunqiao
Good News, everyone! I’m proud to announce there’s a hi-tech strawberry!
Several years ago, Sunqiao started to __________ white agriculture and it employed a new __________ method of farming. The new method ____________________ water and __________.
Introduce how the strawberry is grown.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
People throughout the city are attracted by them. Introduce how the strawberry boosts tourism and economy. ____________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
Word bank
hi-tech    practise      profitable    fertilizer  nourish    profitable 
varieties of  make the best use of  boring and backward   regard…as… 
hold up …