Unit 2
Working the land
Warming up & Reading
Sympathy for the Peasants
Farmers weeding at noon,
Sweat down the field soon.
Who knows food on a tray,
Due to their toiling day?
By Li Shen
Have you ever been to the countryside?
What did you see or do there?
Brainstorming
What will you think of when you see the word “farming”?
farming
farmers
field
rice
fertilizer
wheat
cotton
Do you know how rice is grown?
ploughing(犁田)
seeding (播种)
fertilizing
(施肥)
irrigating (灌溉)
insert the young plants into the field
harvesting (收获)
winnowing (扬谷)
rice
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?
Read the statistics below.
According to the World Health Organization:
The worl produces enough food for everyone.
More then 800 million people go to bed hungry every day.
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.
A Chinese scientists has been doing that, do you know who he is ?
Just 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.
Yuan Longping
“Father of
Hybrid Rice”
A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE
Reading
Skimming: Match the main idea of
each paragraph.
Dr Yuan’s dreams.
Dr Yuan’s appearance and his
achievement.
Dr Yuan’s personality.
Dr Yuan’s life (biography)
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3
Para 4
a farmer named Yuan Longping
how Yuan Longping became rich
and famous
C. an agricultural pioneer named Yuan
Longping who worked hard to
produce a new strain of rice
a new strain of rice which is called
super hybrid rice
Which of the following statements
tells the main idea of the text?
C
1. What does Dr. Yuan look like? Why?
2. What is his achievement?
Para 1
He looks like a farmer (his sunburnt face and
arms and his slim, strong body) because he
always works under the sun for a long time.
He produces super hybrid rice.
Careful reading
He is more a farmer than a scientist.
Personal information
Name:
Nationality:
Born:
Age:
Occupation:
Education:
Dream:
Yuan Longping
Chinese
in 1930
86
scientist/farmer
Southwest Agriculture College, in 1953
To export his hybrid rice so that it
can be grown around the globe
Para 2
Which 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 personality
A
Para 4
What does “Dreaming for things,
however, costs nothing.” mean?
Dreams are free and everybody can
have ideas about what they would
like their future life to be.
Describe the rice in Dr. Yuan
Longping’s first dream
As tall as sorghum
As big as a corn
As huge as a peanut
To export his rice so that it
can be grown all over the world.
The second dream
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
Discussing
Homework
Write a short essay about how to solve hunger problem.
Finish the exercises on page 12 Ex 3, page 49 Ex 1,2