1、 Unit 2working the landThe first periodThe first periodWarming,Pre-reading and ReadingWarming,Pre-reading and ReadingWarming up1.Have you ever been to the1.Have you ever been to the countryside?countryside?what did you do there?what did you do there?2.Are you from a farmer2.Are you from a farmers fa
2、mily?s family?what do you know about farming?what do you know about farming?Have you ever grow any plant?Do you know how to grow a plant?How do you think to grow our main food-rice?plow the fieldseed(播种播种)insert the young plants into the fieldfertilize(施肥施肥)irrigate(灌溉灌溉)harvest(收获收获)winnowing (扬扬 谷
3、谷)Farmers weeding at noon,Farmers weeding at noon,Sweat down the field soon.Sweat down the field soon.Who knows food on a tray,Who knows food on a tray,Due to their toiling day.Due to their toiling day.A poem by Li shenselect the weeds plough the soil turn over the soil sow the seeds remove the weed
4、s fertilize farming stepsriceDiscussion If tomorrow Rice is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries.What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?Pre-readingdie of hunger联合国粮农组织称:饥饿每年夺去500万儿童生命 Hunger HungerWarming upQ1.Rice is a main food in all
5、East Asian and Southeast Asian countries.What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?If that happened,people there would suffer from starvation.And the whole country would get into trouble.International Facts on Hungerand Poverty(2002)u every eight seconds,a child so
6、mewhere in the world dies from starvation.More than 6 million children under the age of 5 die from starvation every year.u More than 800 million people in the world suffer from chronic malnutrition-799 million of them are from the developing world.More than 153 million of them are under the age of 5
7、.u Some 700,000 central Americans are suffering from hunger today,including 6,000 children at risk of starving to death.u The African countries suffering most severely from food shortage are Malawi,Lesotho,Mozambique,Swaziland,Zambia and Zimbabwe.About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hung
8、er-related causes.Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of fiveIf 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 foodimproving the quality
9、 of the soil preventing the pests from eating our cropsDo something to help end hunger in the world!Father of Hybrid RiceLook at the title of the passage and the picture.What do you predict this passage is going to talk about?Then skim the passage to check if you were fight.In the late 1990s,Brown,a
10、n American scholar,came up with the theory of Chinese Menace(威胁威胁),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 Chi
11、na can solve the problem by himself and help to solve the same problem in the world.Scanning Name _ Age _Nationality _Occupation _Education _Dream _Achievement _Hobbies _Yuan Longping79(as of 2009)agriculture scientist/farmer to export his hybrid rice so that it can be grown around the globe.In 1974
12、,developed hybrid rice which produces 1/3 more than normal rice graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953.Scan the passage first to find more information.Chinese violin music,mahjong,swimming,readingA.a farmer named Yuan Longping B.how Yuan Longping became rich and famousC.an agricultura
13、l pioneer named Yuan Longping who worked hard to produce a new strain(种类,品种)of rice D.a new strain of rice which is called super hybrid rice 1.Which of the following statements tells the main idea of the text?It s about_Skimming 2.Find out the main idea of each paragraph and match the following head
14、ings(标题)to each paragraph.A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE Para1 A.Dr Yuans dreams.Para2 B.Dr Yuans personality(性格,个性.)Para3 C.Dr Yuans biography(传记)Para4 D.Dr Yuans appearance and his achievement.Para1Q1:What does Dr Yuan look like?He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim,strong body.Q2:What is his achie
15、vement?He grows what is called super hybrid rice,which makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop(庄稼,农作物,产量)in the same fields.Careful reading Para2Dr Yuan was born in_,graduated from _in 1953.In 1950,Chinese farmers produced only _million tons of rice.In a recent harvest,however,200 mi
16、llion tons of rice was produced by growing _.He Searched for a way to increase rice outputs without _ the area of fields.Now,he is _ his knowledge in less developed countries.1930Southwest Agricultural College50super hybrid riceexpandingcirculatingPara 3 Which of the following description about Dr Y
17、uans 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(名声).C.He would rather work than lead a comfortable life.D.He enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people.Para41.What did Dr Yuans rice look like in his dre
18、am?The rice plants were as tall as sorghum.Each ear of rice was as big as an ear of corn and each grain of rice was as huge as a peanut.What good qualities do you think Dr Yuan have as a great scientist?If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world,what would you do?ThinkingS
19、uggested answers 1.Invent a new kind of plant to produce more food.2.Find a sort of fertilizer to give rice enough nutrition(营养营养)and let them grow quickly and have high product3.Stop the pollution to the environment and protect the soil in the field4.Make good use of the waste land.1.Finish the exercises in Learning about language.P 122.Retell the passage HomeworkHomework