人教版新课标必修四第二单元Unit 2 Working the land warming up and reading课件

课件39张PPT。 Unit 2
Working the land
Warming up and reading


Step 1: warming upLet’s go to the farm!First, buy or select the seeds from the store.Second, we need to plough or turn over the soil.Third , we sow the seeds in the soil.water the croprid the soil of the weed(杂草)Fertilize（施肥） the soilkill off the pest(害虫） to improve the output（产量） of the crop Finally, we can harvest our grain/sorghum/peanuts . What are they doing?They are planting the rice. Yuan Longping
--Father of Super Hybrid RiceA Pioneer For All PeopleA PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLEFast reading ：Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.Careful reading: Read the passage carefully and finish the following activities.A pioneer for all peoplePara. 1 Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievementTask 2 Careful readingQ1: What does Dr Yuan look like?He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim, strong body. He is more like a farmer than a scientist.Q2: What is his achievement?He grows what is called super hybrid rice, which makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields.AppearanceAchievementPoor riceSuper hybrid riceA pioneer for all peoplea. He was born into a poor farmer’s family . b. He graduated from Southwest Agriculture college. c. Chinese farmers produced fifty million tons of rice. d. He became the first agricultural pioneer e. He searched for a way to increase rice outputs without expanding the area of fields. f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries.
Proper order: acbedfPara 2.Put the following sentences in right order. 193019531950 1974as a young mannowJust at that time, a Chinese scientist declared to the world that China can solve the problem by himself and help to solve the same problem in the world.A pioneer for all peopleWhich of the following description about Dr Yuan’s personality is not true?
A. He is satisfied with his life because
he is now rich and famous.
B. He cares little about money and fame.
C. He would rather work than lead a
comfortable life.
D. He enjoys a simpler life than most
rich and famous people.Para. 3 Dr Yuan’s personalityHobbies:listening to violin musicplaying mah-jongswimmingreadingA pioneer for all peopleHis dreamsPara41) The first dream2) The second dreamProduce a kind of rice that could feed more peopleAs huge as a peanutThe first dream As tall as sorghum As big as a corn riceThe second dreamTo export his rice so that it can be grown around the globeComplete the following forms.in 1930graduate from Southwest
Agriculture College in 1953regard himself as a farmer;
care little about spending
money and being famous; play the violin, play mah-jong,
swim and readexport his rice to be grown all
over the worldcan produce 1/3 more of the crop in
the same fields; more than 60%of the
rice in China from this hybrid strainbesides China, knowledge being
circulated in India, Vietnam and other
less developed countries to increase
their rice harvestrice harvests being produced twice as
large; 22% of people fed from just 7%
of the farmland in China; the UN
ridding the world of hungerthe rice to be grown all over the
world What kind of person is Dr Yuan
Longping in your mind?happy sad nervous shy prouddreaminghard-workingunselfishdeterminedenergeticintelligentconfidentactivemodest & between
Dr Yuan Longping and Jane Goodallsimilaritiesdifferences1. They spend their lifetime on their researches.similarities2. They make great contributions to mankind and the whole world.3. They have their dreams and make great efforts to make them true.4. They both lead a busy life.5. They love their work with their pure love.6. They’re selfless and seldom think of themselves. 7. During the work, they never give up but just keep on, so they’re determined. . . .differencesThey have been doing their
researches in different fields.
2. They have different ways of working.
3. Their receiving education is different.
4. The difficulty in working is different for
different sexes.
5. They two got different results of researches.
6. They hold their different dreams.
. . .DiscussionIf you had the chance to do something to rid the world of hunger, what would you do ?hungerThe measures taken to deal with hunger:Invent a new kind of plant to produce more food.Find a sort of fertilizer(肥料)to give rice enough nutrition.Stop the pollution to the environment and protect the soil in the field.… etc.Homework Read the passage again and find out
the useful new words and expressions.
Try to learn them by heart.