Warming up & Reading
Enjoy a Poem
By Li Shen
Farmers weeding at noon,
Sweat down the field soon.
Who knows food on a tray,
Due to their toiling day.
Ploughing (犁田)
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. It is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice every day throughout the world.
Answer the following questions:
Pre-reading
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
Father of Hybrid Rice
A Pioneer For All People
Para1 A. Dr Yuan’s dreams.
Para2 B. Dr Yuan’s personality.
Para3 C. Dr Yuan’s biography.
Para4 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance
and his achievement.
A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE
Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.
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
D. a new strain of rice which is called super hybrid rice
Which of the following statements tells the main idea of the text?
It ’s about____ .
Find out the main idea of each
paragraph.
Skimming
Careful Reading
Read the text and fill in the blanks.
Yuan Longping
Appearance
His________ face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like Chinese farmers.
sunburnt
Achievements
★ In 1974, he became the first _________________ in the world to grow high output rice.
★ Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the _____ to rid the world of hunger.
battle
agricultural pioneer
a. He was born into a poor farmer’s family .
b. He graduated from Southwest Agriculture college.
c. In 1950,Chinese farmers produced fifty million
tons of rice.
d. 200 million tons of rice was produced by growing
his hybrid rice.
e. He searched 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.
Put the events in right order.
a
c
b
e
d
f
Main events
★ In 1930, he was born into a poor farmer’s family.
★ He _________ from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953.
★ Since 1953, finding ways to grow more rice has been his ________.
★ He is now __________ his knowledge in India, Vietnam and many other less developed countries.
circulating
graduated
life goal
Personalities
★ He is quite _______ with his life but doesn’t__________ being famous.
★ He has many hobbies such as listening to violin music, _________________, swimming and __________.
★ He believes that a person with too much money has more __________ fewer troubles.
rather than
satisfied
care about
playing mah-jong
reading
________
★ To produce a kind of rice that could ____ more people.
★ To ______his rice so that it can be grown around the globe.
export
Dreams
feed
1. Yuan Longping became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow super hybrid rice at the age of 40.
2. More than 60% of the rice in the world is from the hybrid strain.
3. According to the text, farmers in China are producing rice harvests nearly 4 times as large as that in 1950.
True (T) or False (F):
F
F
T
1. Dr Yuan wanted to increase the rice output because he saw many people go hungry when he was young.
Suggested answers to Exercise 3 (P11)
Post reading
Homework
Writing a poster(海报) for the text.
Resume
Name:
Nationality:
Date of birth:
appearance:
Education:
personality:
Achievements:
Dreams:
Hobbies:
Yuan Longping
Chinese
1930
Sunburnt, slim, strong
Southwest Agriculture College
Care little about money and fame
Super hybrid rice
Produce export
Violin, mah-jong, swimming,
Thank you