unit 2 working the land have you ever been to the countryside? what did you see or do there? warming...
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Unit 2 Working the land
Have you ever been to the countryside? What did you see or do there?
Warming up
Farming
Are you from a farmer’s family? what do you know about farming?
soilploughing
crops
weather &climate
Irrigating(灌溉 )
……
ploughing (犁田)
seeding (播种)
fertilizing
( 施肥 )
Irrigating( 灌溉 )
transplanting (移植)
Harvesting (收获)
winnowing ( 扬谷 )
According to the World Health Organization (WHO)The world produces enough food for everyone.More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day.
Read the statistics below. Did you know these facts before? What problem do they show?
Pre-reading
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.
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.
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.
In the late 1990s, Brown, an American scholar, came up with the theory of Chinese Menace( 威胁 ), which said that in the 2030s, Chinese population will add up to 1.6 billion, and had the question who would feed the large population in China as well as in the world.
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.
Father of Hybrid RiceFather of Hybrid Rice
1.When and who did become the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output?
2. What did Yuan Longping invent?
In 1974,Yuan Longping
Hybrid rice
Task 1 Skimming
袁隆平被誉为中国的“杂交水稻之父” . 中国农民说,吃饭靠“两平”,一靠邓小平 ---- 制定了生产承包责任制的政策,二靠袁隆平 ---- 发明了杂交稻。 袁隆平,男,1930年9月出生于北京,1953年毕业于西南农学院农学系。毕业后,一直从事农业教育及杂交水稻研究。 在中国人民正闹饥荒的 20 世纪 60 年代,袁隆平提出了杂交水稻的概念,这种新型水稻具有高产量的特点。 10 年后,他研制成功了一种产量比一般水稻高出 20% 的新型水稻。 袁隆平一生献身于农业研究,先后受到联合国教科文组织、粮农组织的称誉。袁隆平虽已年届70岁,仍然一如既往地从事农业研究。
袁隆平人物简历
Para1 A. Dr Yuan’s dreams.
Para2 B. Dr Yuan’s personality.
Para3 C. Dr Yuan’s biography( 传记 ).
Para4 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance
and his achievement.
A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE
Task 1 Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.
Para. 1 Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement
Task 3 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.
Para 2 His biography
Time information
1930
1953
As a young man
Last year (in a recent harvest
now
Born into a poor farmer’s family
Southwest Agriculture College
200 million tons produced
Circulating his knowledge
Saw the great need for …
Searched for a way to increase rice harvest without..
a. He was born into a poor farmer’s family . b. He graduated from Southwest Agriculture college. c. In 1950,Chinese farmers produced 5.5 billion tons of rice. d. 20 billon tons of rice was produced by growing his hybrid rice. e. He searched for 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: a c b e d f
Put Dr Yuan’s biography in right order.
Dr Yuan’s biography
Which of the following description about Dr Yuan’s 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.
Para. 3 Dr Yuan’s personality
His dreamsHis dreams Para4
1) The first dream
2) The second dream
Produce a kind of rice that could feed more people
• As huge as a peanut
The first dream
• As tall as sorghum• As big as a corn
To export his rice so that it can be grown all over the world
Personal information (Resume)
• Name:
• Nationality:
• Birth:
• Age:
• Occupation:
• Education:
• Personality:
• Dreams:
Yuan Longping
Chinese
in 1930; in a poor family
77
Scientist of farming
Southwest Agriculture College,in 1953
His first dream
His second dream
care little about money and fame
Personal information
Achievements:
Hobbies:
grow rice that has a high output
circulate his knowledge abroad
give money to equip others for their research
Listening to his violin
playing mah-jong
swimming
reading
Discussion
What is happening to these people?
HungerHunger
If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do ?
How to solve hunger?
making good use of the waste land
developing the technology to…
inventing a new kind of food…
improving the quality of the soil
preventing the pests from eating our crops
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.
select the weeds plough the soil turn over the soil
sow the seeds remove the weeds fertilize
farming steps