Working the Land

Unit 2

Warming up and reading

莆田第十中学 英语组 陈雪静

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 PoemBy 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

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.

Match the following main ideas with the right paragraphs.

Para. 1 Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievementTask 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 20 percent more of the crop in the same fields.

Appearance

Achievement

Personal Information

Name:

Nationality:

Born:

Age:

Occupation:

Education:

Dream:

Yuan Longping

Chinese

in 193086

scientist/farmer

Southwest Agricultural College, in 1953

To export his hybrid rice so that itcan be grown around the globe

Para 2

Para. 2 His biography

Time information

1930

1953

As a young man

In a recent

harvest

now

He was born.

Graduated from college

Saw the great need for increasing the rice output.

200 million tons was produced

Circulating his knowledge

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 ______ .• He likes freedom for his search and hobbies.

being famous

Personality

Hobbies:

1.

2.

3.

4.

listening to violin music

reading

playing mah-jongswimming

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

DiscussionIf 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 o

f the text.

2. P12