A General Outline of Professional English
for the students of plant protection
　
Course No.,B3012111
Apply The Profession,Plant Protection
Course Property,Elective
Course Time: 8th semester
Hours,30 Hours

A,OBJECTIVES
● To improve students’professional English language proficiency through exercises in comprehension and text appreciation and promote students’abilities in reading and translating the professional English data.
● To enlarge students’ vocabulary by about 1000 words.
● To consolidate students’ knowledge in the usage of professional words,idiomatic expressions,sentence structures,collocations and other grammar items,and help students use them correctly and appropriately in translating.
● To help students work independently by emphasizing pre-class work and the use of English-English dictionaries.

B,ORGANIZATION
● The course will require three hours each reading material,The first two hours are devoted to the new professional words,idiomatic expressions and important language points,The third hour is devoted to the reading material,analysis of the theme,structure,style,and translate the reading material into Chinese properly,
C,SOURCE OF THE READING MATERIALS
The reading materials are selected from Lockhart and Wiseman《Introduction to Crop Husbandry》,Carl P,Swanson,The Cell》,《English of Science and Technology》，A.M.Toms and M.H.Dahl,Pest and Diseases of Fruit and Vegetables》,《A First Technical Reader》,and so on.

D,TOPICS OF THE READING MATERIALS
Lesson 1,What Plants Need
Lesson 2,Soil Micro-organisms
Lesson 3,The Control of Plant Diseases
Lesson 4,The Control of Weed and Plant Diseases
Lesson 5,The Biological Science of Today
Lesson 6,Insect Pest Control
Lesson 7,Virus Diseases of Crops
Lesson 8,Insect Behavior
Lesson 9,The Pest Management Concept
Lesson 10,Review