课件21张PPT。Module 4 Great ScientistsReading Part
Who is he?He is a _________(生物学家) and _______(遗传学家), whose name is ___________.biologistgeneticistYuan Longping Why do this article use this title ”the student who asked questions”?Fast readingQ: Find which paragraph matches the title of passage.A: Para 2.Detail readingRead the passage and match the words in page 33.plants people grow for food
a very important discovery
to produce new plants or animals
to give help
to give food to
to make information known, for example, in a report or a book
someone who makes things or grows food
a type of plant or animal
the science of farming
cropbreakthroughbreedsupportfeedpublishproducerspeciesagricultureLook at the passage again and choose the correct meaning of the words in italics.A staple food is one you eat _______.
(a) rarely (b) regularlyPara1: In a hungry world rice is a staple food……If you cross two plants you ________.
walk past them
produce a new plant
Para 3: ……----by crossing different species of rice plant, and then……A yield refers to _________.
(a) quantity (eg of food)
(b) quality (eg of food)
Para 3: ……and then he could produce a new plant which could give a higher yield than either of the original plants.
Para 6: Its yield is much greater than the yield of other types of rice grown in Pakistan.4. A sterile plant is a plant which doesn’t __________.
(a) grow quickly (b) produce seeds
Para 4: It had to be male. It had to be sterile. Finally, in 1970 a naturally sterile male rice plant was discovered.A hybrid is a plant which comes from ________.
(a) one plant (b) two different plants
Para 6: The new hybrid rice has been developed by the Yuan Longping Hightech Agricultural Company of China.Match the main idea of each paragraph.para 1
para 2
para 3
para 4
para 5
para 6A. As a boy, he liked asking questions.
B. Yuan Longping is a leading figure in the rice-growing world.
C. His discoveries have brought in great profit.
D. The yield of the new hybrid rice is much greater than that of other types of rice grown in Pakistan.
E. As a young teacher, he began experiments in crop breeding.
F. He discovered a new type of rice.Fill in the blanks.Yuan Longping is a _____ figure in the rice-growing world. He was born and ____________ in China. When he was at school, he was interested in plants and was given the _______ “the students who asks questions”. As a young teacher, he began ___________ in crop breeding. He thought there was leadingbrought upnicknameexperiments only one way to have more rice quickly. That was to cross different species of rice plant. Then he began his search for a special type of rice plant. It had to be _____ and sterile. When the naturally sterile male rice plant was discovered in 1970, it was a _______. As a result, China’s rice production rose ____ 47.5% in the 1990’s. And 50 thousand square kilometres of rice fields were ______ to growing vegetables and other cash crops.malehybridbyconvertedThe Chinese scientist, Yuan Longping, is...... As a boy, he was......From an early age...... and later......First......(In 1966......)Then......(In 1970......)Finally......(In 1990’s......) Read the passage again and try to analyze the structure of this passage.Q: Why the author choose “the student who asked questions” as the title of this passage? Why did the author use “Yuan Longping” as the title?indirectmore interestingPractice 1Read the passages on the paper, find which title is more suitable for the passage.1. B 2.BPractice 2Please give the right order of the passage. Pay attention to the time.A: 6, 4, 7, 8, 1; 2, 3, 5Summaryarticlethe student who asked questions indirect and interestingHomeworkWrite a new article which is similar to the passage that we have learnt.爱因斯坦(Albert Einstein)是二十世纪最伟大的科学家之一。他最著名的发现是相对论(Theory of Relativity)。他1879年出生在德国的Ulm。孩童时期,他学习说话很慢,但是他对自然有极大的好奇心且擅长解决数学难题。当他离开高中后,他去往瑞士(Switcherland)上大学,并拿到数学学位(degree)。1905年,他发表一些列重要论文;1921年获得诺贝尔物理奖(the Nobel Prize for Physics)。1933年,因他是犹太人(Jewish),他离开了德国,移居到美国。他持续研究直到1955年去世。Thanks for listening!