Unit-2-Working-the-Land------warming-up-&-reading.ppt

By Li ShenFarmers weeding at noon,Sweat down the field soon.Who knows food on a tray,Due to their toiling day.Do you know the Chinese poem?PoemHave you ever worked in the field?Do you know how the food we eat is planted? Use rice as an example. describe the steps with the help of the picture.First, the farmers plough the field. They have to make the soil loose enough to plant crops.Second, the farmers put seeds in the soil.Third, they grow some young plants.Fourth, they insert the young plants into the field.Fifth, they irrigate (灌溉灌溉)the field when it is dry. Sixth, they harvest the grains from the field. Seventh, they winnow to get grain separated from the plants. rice Read the statistics below. What problem do they show?Many people starve for lack of food even todaybecause of the unbalanced world economy.According to the World Health Organization:The world produces enough food for everyone.More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day.If tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat, what would happen?Lets get to know the world hunger.Today our world houses more than 6.5billion people. Worldwide, more than 1 billion people currently live below the international poverty line, earning less than $1 per day. 854 million people across the world aresuffering from hunger, up from 852 million a year ago. Six million children under the age of 5die every year as a result of hunger. Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger. One child every five seconds. If you had the chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world, what would you do?invent a new kind of plant to produce more food.make a kind of fertilizer to give rice enough nutrition and let them grow quickly and have high product. The only way to solve the food shortage problem is to increase the yield of the grain crop per land area through the advancement of science and technology. Just at that time, a Chinese scientist declared to the world that China can solve the problem by himself and help to solve the same problem in the world. Guess who he is.Father of Hybrid RiceHe is father of hybrid rice, who was awarded “the Nobel Prize of Asia”. He received the honor for his greatcontributions to hybrid rice research and work he did to improve rice production in developing countries. He is called a pioneer for all people.Dr Yuan Longping (袁隆平博士袁隆平博士)the rice that has a high outputhybrid cottonName other kinds of hybrid products.hybrid pearsuper hybrid ricehybrid pepperhybrideggplant hybridcorn What do you plan to do to get rid of the world hunger?work the land 在田间工作在田间工作 for the past five decades 在过去的五十年里在过去的五十年里 grow hybrid rice 种植杂交水稻种植杂交水稻agricultural pioneer 农业先驱农业先驱 have a high output 产量高产量高 be born into a poor family 出生在一个贫苦家庭出生在一个贫苦家庭 increase the rice output 增加水稻产量增加水稻产量search for a way to do sth.寻求做某事的途径寻求做某事的途径circulate ones knowledge 传播知识传播知识thanks to幸亏；由于幸亏；由于 rid the world of hunger 摆脱摆脱/消除世界饥饿消除世界饥饿twice as large as before 是原来的两倍是原来的两倍be satisfied with 对对感到满意感到满意keep time for ones hobbies 有时间从事个人的爱好有时间从事个人的爱好play mah-jong 打麻将打麻将lead a comfortable life 过着舒适的生活过着舒适的生活equip sb. for sth. 供给某人从事供给某人从事prefer to do sth. 喜欢喜欢/宁愿做某事宁愿做某事wish for希望得到希望得到ear of rice 稻穗稻穗 ear of corn 玉米穗玉米穗 grain of rice 稻粒稻粒awake from ones dream从梦中醒来从梦中醒来with the hope of 带着带着的希望的希望 The passage is mainly about _.A. a farmer named Yuan Longping B. how Yuan Longping became rich and famousC. an agricultural pioneer named Yuan Longping who worked hard to produce a new strain of rice D. a new strain of rice which is called super hybrid rice SkimmingPara 1Para 2Para 3Para 4A. Dr Yuans dreamsB. Dr Yuans personalityC. Dr Yuans appearance and his achievementD. Dr Yuans introductionMatch the following headings with the right paragraphs.1. When and who did become the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output?In 1974, Yuan Longping.2. Whats his main achievement?He grows super hybrid rice.ScanningName:Nationality:Age:Occupation:Education:Dream:Yuan LongpingChinese82 (as of 2012) scientist/farmergraduated from Southwest Agriculture College in 1953 to export his hybrid rice so that it can be grown around the globeScanningAchievement:Hobbies: listening to violin music, playing mah-jong, swimming and readingin 1974, developed hybridrice which produces 1/3 more than normal rice1. Dr Yuans rice is one of the most suitable ways for Chinas farmland.2. Dr Yuan doesnt care about being famous.3. Dr Yuan enjoys listening to violin music, swimming and running. 4. Dr Yuan is quite satisfied with his life.Scanning Which of the following description about Dr Yuans appearance is not mentioned? A. He has a slim and strong body. B. He has a sunburnt face. C. He is very tall. D. He looks more like a farmer than a scientist. Scanning2. Which of the following description about Dr Yuans personality is not true? A. 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.3. The Dr Yuans dream about rice was not that _. A. each ear of rice was as big as an ear of corn B. the rice plants as tall as sorghum C. each grain of rice was as huge as a peanut D. the rice plants as tall as sunflowerYuan Longping is known as Chinas “father of _ rice”. Because Yuan Longping grows what is called _ hybrid rice. _ in 1930, Dr Yuan _ from Southwest Agricultural College in _. When Yuan Longping saw the great need hybridsuperBorngraduated1953I. Retell the text by filling the following blanks.for _ the rice output, he _ for a way to increase rice harvests without _ the area of the fields. The increased harvests mean that 22% of the worlds people are _ from just 7% of the farmland in China. He became the _ agricultural _ in the world to grow rice that has a high _. Yuan devoted himself to the research into agriculture. increasingsearchedexpandingfedfirstpioneeroutput