高中英语：Unit2 working the land-reading课件(新人教版必修4) 课件.ppt

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Unit 2,Working the land,What are doing?,They are planting the rice.,Have you ever grown any plants?,If so,what did you do to grow them?,First we ploughed the soil deep.,Second we put the seeds into the tunnel.,Finally we covered the deeds by,ploughing,again.,They are,ploughing,the soil.,Warming up,Q1.Rice is a 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?,If that happened,people there would suffer from starvation.And the whole country would get into trouble.,International Facts on Hungerand Poverty(2002),every eight seconds,a child somewhere in the world dies from starvation.More than 6 million children under the age of 5 die from starvation every year.,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.,Some 700,000 central Americans are suffering from hunger today,including 6,000 children at risk of starving to death.,The African countries suffering most severely from food shortage are Malawi,Lesotho,Mozambique,Swaziland,Zambia and Zimbabwe.,If you had the chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world,what would you do?,I would invent a new kind of plant to produce more food.,Ill make a kind of fertilizer to give rice enough nutrition and let them grow quickly and have high product.But first without pollution to our environment.,A Pioneer for All People,He is,father of hybrid rice,(,杂交水稻），,who was lately awarded“,the Nobel Prize of Asia,”.He received the honor for his great contributions(,贡献）,to hybrid rice research and work he did to improve rice production in developing countries.Now he is,head of the National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center in Hunan Province,China,(,中国湖南省国家杂交水稻研究与发展中心).,He is called,a pioneer for all people.,Dr Yuan,Longping,(,袁隆平博士）,a farmer named Yuan,Longping,how Yuan,Longping,became rich and famous,C.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,Which of the following statements tells the main idea of the text?It s about_,Para1,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 scientistQ2: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 Yuans kind of rice is the most suitable for Chinas farmland.,F,T,Para2,a,.,He,wasborn into,a poor farmers 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 a way to increase rice,output,s,without,expand,ing,the area of fields.,f,.,He helps,rid,the world,of,hunger by,circulating,his knowledge in less developed countries.,Proper order:,Put Dr Yuans biography in right order.,a,c,b,e,d,f,Parag3,Which of the following description about Dr Yuans personality（,个性）,is,not,true,?,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.,Para4,1.What does“Wishing for things,however,costs nothing.”mean?,2.What did Dr Yuans rice look like in his dream?,3.Dr Yuan has dreams not only when he is _ but also when he is_.,Dreams are free and everybody can have ideas about what they would like their future life to be.,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.,asleep,awake,Pairwork,：,Match the following headings(,标题）,to each paragraph.,A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE,Para1 A.Dr Yuans dreams.,Para2 B.Dr Yuans personality.,Para3 C.Dr Yuans biography(,传记).,Para4 D.Dr Yuans appearance,and his,achievement.,Writing a poster(,海报),for the text.,Resume,Name:,Nationality:,Date of birth:,appearance:,Education:,personality:,Achievements:,Dreams:,Hobbies:,Yuan,Longping,Chinese,1930,Sunburnt,slim,strong,Southwest Agriculture College,Care little about money and fame,Super hybrid rice,Produce export,Violin,mah-jong,swimming,Farmers weeding at noon,Sweat down the field soon.,Who knows food on a tray,Due to their toiling day.,