Teaching Aims
1.Study the advice collected from Qi Min Yao Shu and learn more about farming.
2.Learn the grammar item: Indirect speech
Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Lead in
1．Revision Lesson 94 and ask them some questions about Jia Sixie.
2．Show the pictures to the students.
Step 2 Reading
1.Ask the students to read the passage.
1) What did the first advice from Jia Sixie’s book?
2)How to plough the soil from Jia Sixie’s book?
2. Let the students get a general idea of the passage.
Step 3 Language study
Deal with some notes and language points.
1) go against 2) year after year 3) now and then 4) agree to do sth.
Step 4 Grammar
Indirect Speech
1. Review what the students learned about the indirect speech before by doing some exercises. 2. Teach the forms of indirect questions.
a. the use of “if or whether” for “yes/ no questions”
b. the change in word ( subject- verb)
c. the change in tense (back one step)
d. the change in pronouns (“you” to “he, etc.”)
e. no question marks
3. Teach the forms of indirect imperative.
a. Change of pronouns
b. Use of an introductory phrase: He told/advised farmers to. . ./that, or they asked him...
c. Change of tense in the reported phrase when appropriate
Step5 Practice
1).Lesson 95 Part 2. Let the students work in pairs, get some students to report the advice to the whole class.
2) . Lesson 95 part 3.
Go through the examples in the book with the students and revise the forms of indirect questions. Let the students work alone or in pairs. Check the answers with the whole class.
Step 6 Practice
Let the students do Ex. 2 on page 96.
Say something about Jia Sixie's pieces of advice from his book “Qi Min Yao Shu”
His advice on time
If you sow seed and grow young plants at the correct time of year,
less work, results will be better
If you go against nature,
do more work and the results will be not good
His advice on soil
Examine the soil on your farm carefully.
If the condition of the soil is not good, you should improve it.
How to plough
The first time—autumn ploughing
plough deeply
The second time—spring ploughing
Plough less deeply
Why to change the crops
You will harvest good crops.
How to use the fields
Grow different plants next to each other in the same field.
Step 7 Homework
1.Retell Lesson 94 and Lesson 95.
2.Finish off the Workbook exercises.
