I. Teaching aims:

　　Talk about modern agriculture and its effects on people’s life

　　learn how to give somebody advice and make decisions.

　　learn to read statistical graphs

　　Similar dialogue presentation with new words and expressions used within

　　II. Teaching aids: tape recorder, slides

　　Step I Warming up

　　1. Group Work: get Ss to work in pairs, and make a list of food which his grandparents and his parents and himself like to eat. Then Ss find out the difficulty among them.

Name

Breakfast

Snacks

Lunch

Dinner

Grandma/ grandpa

Mother/ father

yourself

　　2. let Ss look at the chart in the book, and ask them some questions:

　　T: “ What the graph is about, look at the words above or below the graph? ”

　　Ss: “ Growth of major products 1991-95 compared with 1986-90 percentages ”

　　T: “ What kind of food were shown on the chart? ”

　　Ss: “ There are grain, cotton, oil, sugar, meat, fish, fruit. ”

　　T: “ What is shown on the y-axis?”

　　Ss: “ the percentage in SB ”

　　3. let Ss answer the following questions in the book. If possible, students can discus three questions in groups.

　　Question 1: How are people’s eating habits changing over the years? Why do you think this happens?

　　(earn more money; learn about healthy food;  eat more nutritious fruit juices; eat more fish and meat, etc.)

　　Question 2: How has agricultural produce changed during these years? What do you think caused these changes?

　　(various farming products; make more money; new and advanced farming technique,etc. )

　　Question 3: What effects do you think the ch

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