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1、 Period 6: Reading Task (Wb) Goals: 1. Learn a reading passage to improve the students’ reading ability. 2. Learn about Jia Sixie and his advice for farmers. 3. Get the students to use what they have learnt in this period to write a plan for a vegetable garden. Teaching procedures: Step 1 R

2、evision Check the homework exercises. Step 2 Lead-in Let the students enjoy pictures of varieties of food, including fresh and good fruits, vegetables, etc. (This aims to arouse the sense of happiness after a good harvest.) Question1: What is important to a good harvest? Answer: Farmers’ hard

3、work, experience, soil condition, weather… Enjoyment Farmers’ proverbs & sayings The wisdom of farmers about the weather & farming is collected in many popular proverbs & passed on from generation to generation. The following proverbs tell you sth. About the weather in England. Are they true for

4、China? 1 No weather is ill, if the wind be still. 2 Yellow sky at sunset, wind in the morrow. 3 Rain before seven, clear by eleven. 4 April showers bring May flowers. 5 Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves. 6 The best ground bears weeds as well as flowers. 7 Never cackle unless you lay. Qu

5、estion2: How have agricultural ideas been spread and passed on from one generation to the next? Answer: People have told agricultural ideas to each other and the next generation orally and have written them down so that these ideas have been spread and passed down. Question2: Do you know any earl

6、y writers giving advice to farmers? Answer: The earliest were rich Greek landowners and later the Roman writer, Piso. But China was the first country to write down its advice to farmers. Jia Sixie was the first person to write a clear description of the best farming. Step 3 Pre-reading Ques

7、tion: What do you know about Jia Sixie? Step 4 Reading 1) Fast reading Why do we consider Jia Sixie as a farmer pioneer? Answer: Because he spent his time on research into agriculture & wrote a book called Qimin Yaoshu, which was considered to be an important summary of the knowledge of farmi

8、ng. For centuries after he died, it was studied by Chinese farmers and students of agriculture. 2) Careful reading 1. What made Jia Sixie become interested in improving Chinese farming? Answer: He saw how some farms produced good crops and healthy animals and others did not. 2. How did he think

9、he could help farmers? Answer: He thought that when he found the best agricultural methods he would write them dawn so all farmers could read about them and benefit. 1. What advice did he give farmers? Make notes in the chart. Advice for farmers Keeping seeds hang seed-heads up to dry all win

10、ter, knock seeds out when they are sown Choosing seeds to plant choose ones with the best colour Way to get rid of weeds(1 ) let animals eat them before planting Way to get rid of weeds(2 ) turn the soil over and cover so the weeds die. Autumn ploughing deep ploughing Spring ploughing Less

11、 deep ploughing Crops change crops grown in the same field every year. Step 5 Post-reading It is in November when we have to plough the land for he first time. The ploughing has to be done deep. November Imagine you have a vegetable garde

12、n & you want to grow beans, cabbages, onions, tomatoes & sunflowers. What will you do in each month of the year? Write a plan for your vegetable garden. Step 6 Homework Write a plan for your vegetable garden. Consult the websites: http://Agri- http://agri- 單位：湖北省荊門　姓名：李國　E_mail：liguo619@