Unit 2 Working the land-Reading

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Working the Land
Unit 2
Warming up and reading
1. Have you ever been to the countryside
2. Do you know how to work on a farm
Step 1: warming up
Let’s go to the 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.
Finally, we can harvest our grain/sorghum/peanuts .
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.
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 crop
rid the soil of the weed
fertilize the soil
kill off the pest
to improve the output of the crop
What’s the meaning of “pioneer”
Pioneer n. person who is the first to study a new area of knowledge.
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.
Fast reading ：Task 1 Scanning Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.
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.
Careful reading:
Read the passage carefully and finish the following activities.
Para. 1 Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement
Task 2 Careful reading
Q1: 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.
Q2: What is 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.
True or False:
1. Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist.
2. Dr Yuan’s kind of rice is the most suitable for China’s farmland.
F
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Appearance
Achievement
Para. 2 His biography
Time information
1930
1953
As a young man
In a recent
harvest
now
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
22%
7%
Means
UN rid the world of hunger
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 Dr Yuan’s biography in right order.
a
c
b
e
d
f
Paragraph 3
Topic sentence
Dr Yuan is quite satisfied with his life.
He doesn’t care about ______ and _______. He likes freedom for his search and hobbies.
fame
money
Personality
Hobbies:
listening to violin music
playing mah-jong
swimming
reading
Paragraph 4
Topic sentence
Just dreaming for things,
however, costs nothing.
dreams
Para 4: 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
Discussion
If you had the chance to do something to rid the world of hunger, what would you do
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.
… etc.
Homework
1. Review new words and useful expressions of the text.
2.What can we learn from Dr Yuan