高中英语人教版必修四 Unit 2 Working the land Reading 课件 （共33张PPT）

课件33张PPT。Unit 2
Working the landHave you ever been to the countryside?
Do you know how to work on a farm?Unit 2
Working the landHave you ever been to the countryside?
Do you know how to work on a 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.In order to improve the output of the crop, we need to rid the soil of the weed, water the crop, fertilize the soil and kill off the pest.water the croprid the soil of the weedfertilize the soilkill off the pest to improve the output of the crop Finally, we can harvest our grain/sorghum/peanuts . Rice is eaten by 2.4million people
every day throughourt the world. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?They are suffering from starvation.Food shortage.A serious fact: More than 800 million people go to
bed hungry every day. The most important way is to increase the output of the crops per land.How can we solve the problem?Father Of
Hybrid RiceA Pioneer for All PeopleYuan Longping Match the following main ideas with the right paragraphs.A pioneer for all people1.Why does he want everyone to call him a farmer?
2.What is his achievement? He has sunburnt face and arms, slim
and strong body.
He is a scientist who works the land.He is more a farmer than a scientist. He grows what is called super hybrid rice, which makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields.A pioneer for all peoplePut the following events about
Dr Yuan’s biography in right order. A pioneer for all peopleJudge the following description about
Dr Yuan’s personality true or falseA pioneer for all peopleProduce a kind of rice that could feed more peopleAs huge as a peanutThe first dream As tall as sorghum As big as a corn The second dreamTo export his rice so that it can be grown around the globeDiscussingWhat kind of person is Yuan Longping ?appearance, job, birthplace, education, hobbies, dream, achievementsSummarizingFinish the following two exercises
1. Fill the chart according to the text;
2. Intensive comprehending exercises.Summarizing exercise1: Filling the chartSummarizing exercise2: Intensive comprehendingDreaming for things costs nothingFollow the example of Dr Yuan
Be a dreamer
and fight for dreams 1. Surf the Internet to find more
information about farming and
you are expected to present it to
your classmates in the next class;
2. Retell the story about Yuan Longping Homework Retell the story about Yuan LongpingThank you!Good Bye!