Unit 2 Working the land Warming up and Reading 课件

(共23张PPT)
Enjoy a Poem
Farmers weeding at noon,
Sweat down the field soon.
Who knows food on a tray,
Due to their toiling day.
Do you know these grains (谷物)
Wheat
小麦
rice
sorghum
高粱
corn
peanut
soybean 大豆
Are you from a farmer’s family What do you know about farming
Ploughing (犁田)
When we speak of farming, what words
can we think of
seeding
fertilizing
(施肥)
irrigating 灌溉
transplanting 插秧
harvesting
winnowing (扬谷)
rice
What is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries
Rice.
Answer the following questions:
What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat
suffer from starvation and starve to death
feel scared / be panic (惊慌)
fight for food, even kill each other
and the whole country would get into trouble.
If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do
How to solve hunger
making good use of the waste land
developing the technology to…
inventing a new kind of food…
improving the quality of the soil
preventing the pests from eating our crops
What do you predict this passage is going to talk about
Father of Hybrid Rice
He is father of hybrid rice (杂交水稻), who was lately awarded “the Nobel Prize of Asia”. He received the honor for his great contributions (贡献) to hybrid rice research and work he did to improve rice production in developing countries. Now he is head of the National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center in Hunan Province, China (中国湖南省国家杂交水稻研究与发展中心). He is called a pioneer for all people.
Dr Yuan Longping (袁隆平博士)
Super Hybrid Rice
the rice that has a high output
Para 1 A. Dr Yuan’s dreams.
Para 2 B. Dr Yuan’s personality.
Para 3 C. Dr Yuan’s biography.
Para 4 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance
and his achievement.
A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE
Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.
The text is about _______________ who made a great contribution to producing better _____.
Yuan Longping
rice
_________________
developed super hybrid rice
became the first __________________
in the world to grow high output rice
agricultural pioneer
Achievements
Hobbies:
listening to violin music
playing mah-jong
swimming
reading
Describe the rice in Dr. Yuan
Longping’s first dream
As tall as sorghum
As big as an ear of corn
As huge as a peanut
rice
each ear
each grain