Teaching Aims
1. Study this lesson to know more about farming.
2. Get the students to know about the text by fast reading and intensive reading.
3. Get the students to grasp the main idea of the passage.
4. Get the students to guess the meanings of some key words from the context.
Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Presentation
教师活动：教师展示两张图片（见ppt.），让学生了解本课相关内容，农业专家贾思勰的情况，导入本课的相关内容。
学生活动：学生根据自己所了解的知识回答教师所提问的问题
Look at the pictures and answer the following questions:
Who knows QI Min Yao Shu and its writer?
Do you know about the science of farming in our country?
Step 2 Watch the video
教师活动：教师播放本课的视频内容（见ppt.），主要通过视听，让学生大概了解课文内容。播放完之后教师通过设问，给学生几分钟的时间思考，然后提问，让学生一起回答。
学生活动：学生看完视频后，通过思考，回答下列问题。
1) What were the people in other countries doing while the farmers in China were developing the science of farming?
2) What book did he write? What is the book about?
Key:1) People in other countries were trying to catch wild animals and birds and were still collecting seeds and nuts while farmers in China were developing the science of agriculture. 2) He wrote a book called Qi Min Yao Shu and the book is about both farming and gardening.
Step 3 Listening
教师活动：教师播放录音一至两遍（见ppt.声音），提问各别学生每段的含意。
学生活动：学生听完之生，回答下列问题。
Listening the Lesson 94 twice, Answer the meanings of each paragraph.
Paragraph 1-2
Key: China was the earliest research center for agriculture.
Paragraph 3-4
Key: Jia Sixie’s research on farming.
Paragraph 5-6
Key: Something about the book QI Min Yao Shu..
Step 4 Intensive Reading
学生活动：学生通过仔细阅读课文，然后回答教师出的问题。
Ask the students to read the text again and choose the best answer to each question.
1. What is the main point discussed in the passage?__________
A. The sowing of carrot seeds.
B. The picking of the rest of the cabbages.
C. The weather report on the radio.
D. The farm work.
2. The passage mainly tells us about ________.
A. the science of farming
B. a great farmer in Chinese history
C. the book Qi Min Yao Shu
D. the earliest research center for agriculture
3. According to the book Qi Min Yao Shu, which is right?_________
A. Grow the same plant in the same field for many years.
B. Spring ploughing is deeper than autumn ploughing.
C. Grow different plants always in different field.
D. Do farm work at the correct time.
4. According to Jia Sixie, what was to be done to improve soil condition?_________
A. Clear rough ground. B. Plant wheat close together.
C. Remove weeds in the soil. D. All of the above.
5.Which of the following best explains why Jia Sixie was an important person?__________
A. He was the first man who planted crops together.
B. He knew better how to keep seeds than others.
C. He worked in the government for many years.
D. He was a pioneer in studying agriculture.
Key: CBDDD
Step 5 Fast Reading
学生活动：学生通过快速阅读，完成下面的问题。
Read the passage again, choose which is True or False.
1) He didn't want to work in the government. So he returned home and spent his time on agriculture.
2) He advised the farmers to choose the best seed-heads, which were much bigger than others.
3) After the seeds were sown, they should be knocked out of the seed-heads.
4) He pointed out it was important that wheat should be planted with space between the plants.
5) He did experiments to show his way was better.
6) The book called Qi Min Yao Shu was written over 500 years ago.
Key: FFFFTF
Step 6 Practise
学生活动：学生完成下面有关贾思勰的介绍
Fill in the blanks about introducing Jia Sixie.
Lived Century:___________________________________
Born Place:______________________________________
Study Experiences:_________________________________
His works:_______________________________________
Book subjects:_____________________________________
Key: in the sixth century A D
Yidu, in Shandong Province
1.ways of keeping seeds 2. how to improve soil conditions
Qi Min Yao Shu
growing vegetables and fruit trees, keeping cows and sheep, and keeping fish in lakes, instructions for making wine.
Step 7 Language Study
教师活动：教师通过词汇的讲解与举例，然后通过词汇练习，检验学生词汇的掌握。
学生活动：学生通过教师的讲解，在掌握词汇和记忆之生，做下面的练习。
I. Deal with some language points.
2) develop v. development n.
3) spend time on sth. ; spend time in doing
4) learn from
5) experience
6) advise sb. to do , advise that sb. should ( do ) : give advice to
I advise you to leave now.
I advise that you should leave now.
7) point out 8) turn over
II. Practise
1.Jia Sixie did _________ (实验) and showed that his way was better.
2.The __________(说明) for making wine are included in this book.
3.What kind of _________ (蔬菜) do you have for supper?
4. She is a doctor with 30 years’ __________ (经验) .
5.The________ (不平的) road made the car shake.
6.Farmers usually ________(耕)their fields in Spring before sowing seeds.
7.Although the working and living _________(条件)are not satisfying, he' s made up his mind to stay there.
8.In order to grow more vegetables, I want to have more advice on farming and __________(园艺)
Key: 1. experiment 2. instructions 3. vegetable 4. experience 5. rough 6. plough 7. conditions 8. gardening
Step 8 Writing
教师活动：教师展示图片（见ppt.），学生根据图片内容写一篇作文，学生在一起可互相交流，最后教师讲评。
学生活动：学生根据图片内容，通过课文知识，完成此篇作文。
According to the picture, please describe what they talked together ?
Suggest words: Jia Sixie ,two farmers, choose best seed-head, best colour, hung up to dry ,sow, so on
Step 9 Talking and Speaking
教师活动：教师展示三张图片（见ppt.），让学生进行口语练习，描述图片的内容。教师把学生分别三个小组，一个小组说出一个图片。
学生活动：学生通过观看图片，联想实际生活，在一起讨论，然后发言说出图片的内容。
Ask your partner what he /she knows about farming? Talk about these pictures.
Suggest words:
A farmer is ploughing the soil . Some farmers are sowing the seeds. Some farmers are working in the terrace
Step 10 Homework
Finish the Workbook exercises.
Retell the passage with your own words.
Prepare the Lesson 95.
