课件37张PPT。Unit2 Working the land
Warming upEnjoy a Poem
By Li ShenFarmers weeding at noon,Sweat down the field soon.Who knows food on a tray,Due to their toiling day. What do you know about “farming”?wheat rice corn potatoes peanuttomatoesbroomcorncottonAgriculture in the pastAgriculture in the modern timesHave you ever been to the countryside?
What did you see or do there?Are you from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming?ploughing(犁田) seeding (播种)fertilizing
(施肥)irrigating(灌溉)harvesting (收获)winnowing (扬谷)grow some young plantsinsert the young plants into the fieldHave you ever grown any plants? If so,
what did you do to grow them? If not,
what kind of plant would you like to try
growing? How would you grow it?riceRead the statistics below. Did you know these facts before? What problem do they show?What is the main food in all East
Asian and Southeast Asian countries?Rice. It is said that there are
2.4 billion people to eat rice
every day throughout the
world. If that happened, people might die of hunger. The whole world would get into trouble.What do you think would happen if
tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?Hungern. 饥饿, 饥渴; 渴望
vi. 渴望; 渴求Do something
to help end
hunger in the
world!!!The only way to solve the food shortage problem is to increase the yield of the grain crop per land area through the advancement of science and technology. Yuan Longping
“Father of
Hybrid Rice”杂交培育的新品种辣椒(capsicum)杂交棉( hybrid cotton )杂交梨重穗型超高产杂交稻杂交甜椒杂交茄子杂交玉米 BrainstormingWhat will you think of when you see the word “farming”?farmingfarmersfieldricefertilizerwheatcottonHomework1. Surf the Internet to find more
information about farming.
2. Preview the reading.