Unit 2 Working the land Warming up and Reading 课件（幻灯片38张）

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What do you think this unit will talk about?
What are the three persons on P. 9 doing?
What do you think of when you see the word agriculture?
water
farmer
tool
field
seed
machine
cattle
village
rice
Do you know where food comes from and how crops are raised?
First, the farmers plow the field. They have to make the soil loose enough to plant crops.
Second, grow some young plants.
Third, they insert the young plants into the loose field. They fertilize the field.
At last, they will get the harvest.
ploughing
growing some young plants
insert the
young plants
fertilizing
harvesting
Sympathy for the Peasants (II)
悯农其二
By Li Shen
Hoeing millet in mid-day heat,
锄禾日当午，
Sweat dripping to the earth beneath:
汗滴禾下土。
Do you know the food on your plate
谁知盘中餐，
Each grain was hard-earned?
粒粒皆辛苦？
Everyday food
Country / Area Basic food
England potatoes and bread
Canada
USA
China
rice and pasta
Italy
India
Japan
South America / Central America corn
1. What is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries?
2. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there were suddenly no rice to eat?
Look at the picture and read the statistics on P. 9.
Is the boy strong?
Is he healthy?
What lead him to this kind of situation?
Every year 15 million children die of hunger.
About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age.
If you had the chance to do something to help
end hunger in the world, what would you do?
How to solve hunger?
Make good use of the waste land.
Develop agricultural science and technology.
Invent a new kind of food.
Improve the quality of the soil.
Prevent the pests from eating our crops.
Yuan Longping
Father of Hybrid Rice
Who is he?
Professor Yuan Longping is famous in research on hybrid rice. He gave birth to a hybrid rice which output 30% more than ordinary ones, which has been widely used in the rice fields. The hybrid rice by Yuan and his co-researchers has made the earth produce extra rice equivalent to food for 80 million or more people.
Look at the title of the passage and the picture. What do you predict this passage is going to talk about? Then skim the passage to check if you are right.
Fast reading
What is the main idea of the passage?
It is about an agricultural pioneer named Yuan Longping who worked hard to produce a new strain of rice.
New words and structures
1. work the land: use the land to get its
resources, such as through farming or mining.
2. twice as (large or many): two times
3. having more rather than fewer: You
expect fewer troubles but in fact you get
more than you thought you would.
Name ____________ Age ____________
Nationality __________
Occupation ___________________
Education ____________________________

Dream _______________________________

Achievement _________________________

Hobbies ___________________________________
Yuan Longping
88 (as of 2018)
agriculture scientist / farmer
to export his hybrid rice so that it can be grown around the globe
In 1974, he developed hybrid rice which produces 1/3 more than normal rice
graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953
Complete the notes about Yuan Longping.
Chinese
violin music, mahjong, swimming, reading
Scanning
Find out the main idea of each paragraph.
appearance and achievements
birth, education and research
noble personality
dreams
Careful reading
Paragraph Main Idea
1 His ________________________
2 His ________________________
3 His ________________________
4 His ________________________
1. Dr. Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist.
2. Dr. Yuan’s rice is one of the most suitable
ways for China’s farmland.
3. Dr. Yuan would rather work than relax.
4. Dr. Yuan has dreams when he is asleep and
also when he is awake.
5. Dr. Yuan enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people.
F
T
T
T
T
True or False

1. What dose Dr. Yuan look like? Why?


2. What is his achievement?
He looks like a farmer because he always works under the sun for long time.
He produces super hybrid rice.
Para. 1
Why did Dr. Yuan want to increase the rice output when he was young?



2. How dose he help rid the world of hunger?
Because at that time, hunger was a serious problem in many parts of the countryside. He saw many people were suffered from hunger when he was young.
He works hard to produce the hybrid rice that has a high output.
Para. 2
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. 2 billon 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.
Proper order:
Put Dr. Yuan’s biography in right order.
a
c
b
e
d
f
Which of the following descriptions about Dr. Yuan’s personality is NOT TRUE?
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
1. What does “Just 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.
2. Dr. Yuan has dreams not only when he is ______ but also when he is ______.
asleep
awake
Personal information
Achievements
Hobbies
grow rice that has a high output
circulate his knowledge abroad
give money to equip others for their research
playing the violin
listening to violin music
playing mah-jong
swimming
riding his motorcycle to the rice fields
As a young man, he saw the great need for increasing the rice output.

2. At that time, hunger was a disturbing problem in many parts of the countryside.
When he was a young man, he knew how important it was to produce bigger rice crops.
During his early years, much of the countryside was troubled by hunger.
Explain the following sentences from the reading passage.
3. Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before.


4. Spending money on himself or leading a comfortable life also means very little to him.
As they use his hybrid rice, farmers are producing twice as much rice as before.
He is not interested in buying things for himself or in living a comfortable life.
Fill in the blanks.
1.虽然他是中国最著名的科学家之一，但Dr.
Yuan更喜欢别人把他当作农民。
Although he is of the famous , Dr. Yuan would much rather __________ (consider) a farmer.
2. 被太阳晒黑的脸和手臂，瘦而结实的身
体，和别的农民没有什么两样。
His face and arms and his , strong body just the same other farmers.
one
scientists
be considered
sunburnt
slim
are
as
3. 1930年，他出生于一个贫穷的农民家
庭，在1953年，他毕业于西南农学院。
He, was born into a farmer's family, from ___________ Agricultural College in 1953.
4. 为了让人民摆脱饥饿，自从毕业后，他
一直从事杂交水稻研究。
In to help people get of hunger, _____his graduation, he has his 　research on super rice.
who
poor
graduated Southwest
order
rid
since
done
5. Dr. Yuan淡泊名利，对于他来说，金
钱不是一切。
Dr. Yuan cares about money and . ______ him money is not ___________.
6. Dr. Yuan努力实现他的梦想。他的梦想
是让他的稻谷可以出口并长遍全球。
Dr. Yuan tries his to his dream: he can his rice so that it can be
around the .
little
being famous
For
everything
best
realize
export
globe
grown
Discussion
Is Yuan Longping more of a scientist
than a farmer?
2. Is he more of a businessman than a farmer?
3. What were his dreams and how far did he achieve them?
5. Dr Yuan thinks that a person with too much money has more rather than fewer troubles. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
4. Even if Dr. Yuan’s dreams come true, can
this really solve starvation?
1. Review the reading passage and the new words.
2. Choose a topic from the discussion and write an article.
Homework