人教高中英语必修4 Unit2 Working the land Warming up and Reading （共22张PPT）

(共22张PPT)
Unit 2
Working the land


Have you ever been to the countryside? what did you do there?
Warming up
Farming
Are you from a farmer’s family? what do you know about farming?
soil
ploughing
crops
weather &climate
Irrigating(灌溉)
……
Warming up
Agriculture in the past
Agriculture in the modern times
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.
Pre-reading
What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?
If that happened, people there would suffer from starvation. People would be panic(惊慌) and the whole country would get into trouble.
Pre-reading
hybrid rice;
System of Production Responsibility;
institute;
suffer the famine;
Yield;
UNESCO, FAO.
1.What does Dr Yuan look like?
2.What’s his achievement?
3.What do you think of him?

Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1.What does Dr Yuan look like?
He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim, strong body. He is more like a farmer than a scientist.
2.What’s his achievement?
He grows what is called super hybrid rice, which makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields. Using his hybrid rice farmers’ producing harvests twice as large as before.
3.What do you think of him?
He doesn’t like money because he gives millions of yuan to equip others for their research in agriculture. He doesn’t like fame too though he has made great contributions to the world. He’s really respectable.

Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.


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.
Who is Yuan Longping?
Name:_______ Nationality:___________
Age:_________ Occupation(job):_______
Education: ___________________

Dream:______________________________

Achievement:____________________

Hobbies:_______________________
Yuan Longping
Chinese
81
Southwest Agricultural College
To export his rice so that it can be grown
around the globe.
His super hybrid rice (this hybrid rice has a high output)
Farmer/ Scientist
Listening to violin music, playing
mah-jong, swimming and reading.
His biography
Born in Beijing
Graduated from college
1.Hunger was a great problem.
2.Saw the great need for increasing the rice output.
200 million tons was produced
Circulating his knowledge
Time information
1930
1953
As a young man
In a recent
harvest
now
Detail reading
Please write down the smaller heading giving a little more information according to the large headings as follows:
A pioneer for all people
Large headings
his dreams
His first dream
His second dream
▲(rice plants) As tall as sorghum
▲( each ear) As big as an ear of corn
▲(each grain) As huge as a peanut
To export his rice
so that it can be
grown all over
the world
Do you want to end the famine(饥荒)in the world ?If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do ?
Discussion
The measures taken to deal with hunger
Invent a new kind of plant to produce more food.
Find a sort of fertilizer(肥料)to give rice enough nutrition.
Stop the pollution to the environment and protect the soil in the field.
homework
1. Review new words and useful expressions of the text.
2. What can we learn from Dr Yuan?
3. Surf the Internet to find more information about farming and you are expected to present it to your classmates in the next class.