Unit 2 Working the land [下学期]

Unit2 working the land
一. pre-reading
1. What do you know about farmig
2. What is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries
3. What would happen if there was suddenly no rice to eat
二．Reading
1. what is Yuan Longping’s main achievement
2. what is the main idea of each paragraph Please match them (配对)
Para1 His dreams
Para2 His personality(个性)
Para3 How he thinks of himself and his achievement
Para4 His biography
3. answer some detailed questions
1) Why does he want everyone to call him a farmer (his appearance, work)
2) What happened to him in1974
3) Why did Dr Yuan want to increase the rice output when he was young
4) How did he help rid the world for hunger
5) What does he think of money and fame(名声)
6) What were his dreams
4. fill in the forms about Yuan Longping’s information.
Name
Born
Graduated
Appearance He has _________ face and arms. His body is _______ but ______. All this makes him look as a real _________.
Achievements He succeeded in __________.He became the first agricultural ___________ in the world to grow_________ whose output is high. He helped the government highly increase the _________ of grain.
personality Care little for ___________Would like to live ____________life
三．Important phrases
1. 看待自己 2. 在田间耕种
3. 晒黑的面孔和手臂 4. 清瘦而又结实的身躯
5. 从许多方面来讲 6. 过去50年来
7. 努力帮助某人 8. 超级杂交水稻
9. 第一位农业先锋 10. 高产量
11. 使…有可能 12. 毕业于…
13. 毕生致力于… 14. 稻田增产的巨大需求
15. 传播知识 16. 欠发达国家
17. 由于他的研究 18. 使世界摆脱饥饿
19. 对…满足 20. 对…关注少
21. 享受舒适的生活 22. 帮助某人进行研究
23. 宁愿花时间做… 24. 从梦中醒来
25. 希望… 26. 出口他的稻谷
born regard search for devote expand
thanks to rid satisfied with would rather lead
He wants everyone to call him a farmer. For that’s how he __________ himself. __________ into a poor farmer’s family in 1931, Dr Yuan graduated from Southwest Agriculture college in 1953. since then, he has _________ his life to finding ways to grow more and more rice. Dr Yuan ________ a way to increase rice harvests without ___________ the area of fields. __________his research , the UN is trying to __________the world of hunger. You might guess that Dr Yuan, who is now rich and famous, is ___________ his life. However, he cares about little spending the money on himself or _________ a comfortable life. Indeed, he believes that a person with too much money has more, __________ few troubles.
四. Important sentences
1. Dr Yuan grows what is called super hybrid rice.
2. Using his hybrid rice farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before.
3. Wishing for things , however, costs nothing.
4. Dr Yuan saw rice plants as tall as sorghum. Each ear of rice was as big as an ear of corn and each grain of rice was as huge as a peanut.
5. Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist.
Using language Organic Farming
一. Answer some questions
1. What is organic farming
2. What is the advantage of using natural fertilizer
3. What is the disadvantage of using chemical fertilizer
4. Why do organic farmers insist on changing crops every two or three years
1) Why do they grow peas or soybeans after corn or wheat/
2) Why do they plant grass between crops
二Important phrases:
1. 有机耕作 2. 涉及
3. 自然肥料 4. 化学肥料
5. 而不是.. 6. 使土壤更肥沃
7. 动物的粪便 8. 使土壤含有更丰富的矿物质
9. 对…有好处 10. 有助于农作物的茁壮成长
11. 免于… 12. 水供应
13. 土壤贫瘠 14. 坚持做…
15. 每隔两三年 16. 把…带回..
17. 生长于浅表土壤的农作物 18. 生根于深层土壤的农作物
19. 防止水土流失 20. 天然肥料
三.Important sentences
1. But whatever they grow they make sure that what is left in the ground after harvesting becomes a natural fertilizer for the next year’s crop.
2. Some organic farmers prefer planting grass between crops to prevent wind or water from carrying away the soil.
3. However, using chemical fertilizer is a big problem.
Grammar about the –ing form as subject and object
(动名词作主语或宾语)
动名词的不同形式
时态\语态 主动 被动
一般式 Doing Being done
完成式 Having done Having been done
完成进式 Having been doing 无
否定式:not +doing / having done
一.作主语
1. Learning new words is very important for me.
2. Playing tricks on others is something we should never do.
3. It is useless trying to argue with him.
二.作宾语
动词宾语
1. I considered going, but I have this composition to write.
2. We enjoy reading this book.
只能接动名词作宾语的动词,常见的有avoid (避免), admit, enjoy, keep, finish, suggest, dislike, delay, escape, imagine, mind, miss, practise, fee like, can’t help, give up
既可用动名词(doing)也可用动词不定式(to do ), 意义不变的动词, 常见的有 begin, start, continue, like, love, prefer, hate, intend
既可用动名词也可用动词不定式,意义有变化的动词, 意义有变的动词,常见的有
doing doing doing
forget /remember/ regret mean try
to do to do to do
doing
stop
to do
三个特殊动名词表示被动
want doing = want to be done
need doing = need to be done
require doing = require to be done
e.g. The house needs cleaning.
= The house needs to be cleaned.
介词宾语
1. I apologized for being late.
2. She was very interested in working for our company.
一些短语中的介词后加-ing , 如, pay attention to , devote… to…, look forward to, insist on, be used to, lead to…
Exercises:
1. The man insisted ________ a taxi for me even though I told him I lived nearby.
A. find B. to find C. on finding D. in finding
2. __________ the meeting himself gave them a great deal of encouragement.
A. The president will attend B. The president to attend
C. The president attended D. The president’s attending
3. No one enjoys _________ it.
A. laughing B. to laugh C. being laughed D. to be laughed
4. You must do something to prevent your house __________.
A. to be broken in B. from being broken in
C. to break in D. from breaking in
5. His room needs __________, so he must have it __________.
A. painting, painted B. painted, painting
C. painting, painting D. painted, painted
6. She decided to devote herself ___________ the problem of old age.
A. to study B. studying C. to studying D. study
7. As she is looking forward to _________ from me, please remember _________ this letter on your way to school.
A. hear, post B. hearing, to post
C. be heard, posting D. be hearing, to posting