Unit 2
Working the land
reading
Do you know these grains(谷物)?
wheat
sorghum
rice
高粱
corn
Warmin up
plow the field
How to grow rice?
insert the young plants into the field
What a big harvest!
What is happening to these people?
A dying child
Hungry
We must do something to help the hungry in the world!
Discussion
If tomorrow
There is a sientist in china who made contributions to rid the world of hunger.Do you know who he is?
Father of hybrid rice
A Pioneer For All People
Super Hybrid Rice
the rice that has a high output
Poor rice
Super hybrid rice
Hybrid rice
Find out the main idea of each paragraph.
scanning
Task 1
Para. 1 Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement
Task 2 Careful reading
Q1: What is his appearance?
He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim, strong body.
Q2: What is his achievement?
He grows what is called super hybrid rice, and it makes it possible to produce 20‰more of the crop in the same fields.
1 Indeed, his sunburnt ……farmers, for whom he has struggled for the past five decades.
struggle for为……奋斗/斗争
struggle to do sth 挣扎着做某事
struggle with/against与……斗争、克服
2 Dr Yuan grows what is called super hybrid rice.
引导词what引导的的 从句，what 翻译为“...的东西”
3. This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce 20% more of the crop in the same fields.
it 在句中作形式宾语,
真正的宾语为to produce…field
结构为: 动词make+it +形容词+(for sb.)+ to do.
Para 2
His biography
born in Beijing
graduate form college
hunger was a great problem Saw the great need for increasing the rice output
200 million tons produced
circulating his knowledge
动词ing的语法
Para2:
Since then，finding ways to grow more rice has been his life goal.

Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvest twice as large as before.
True or False?
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
Personal information
Achievement:
Hobbies:
grows what is called super hibrid rice.

listening to violin music
playing mah-jong
swimming
reading
Para3：
He would much rather keep time for his hobbies.

Spending money on himself or leading a comfortable life also means very little to him.

Indeed，he belives that a person （with too much money ）has more rather than fewer troubles.
Dr yuan’s dreams
Para4
1) The first dream
2) The second dream
As huge as a peanut
As tall as sorghum
As big as a corn

The first dream
Produce a kind of rice that could feed more people
To export his rice so that it can be grown around the globe.
The second dream
Conclusion
graduated；
disturbing
increase
expanding
circulating
research
rid
satisfied
export
grown
Unit 2 Working the land
Language points
4. Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger.
rid of
get rid of摆脱，除去
英语中的倍数表达法共有三种形式:
(1) 倍数 + 形容词/副词的比较级 + than... A is twice larger than B
(2) 倍数 + as +形容词/副词的原级 + as...　A is twice as large as B
(3) 倍数 (… times) + the + 名词( size， height，weight， length， width 等) + of...
A is three times the size of B
Personal information
Name:
Nationality:
Born:
Age:
Occupation:
Education:

Dream:
Yuan Longping
Chinese
in 1930; in a poor family
79
Agriculture scientist
Southwest Agriculture College,in 1953
Produce a kind of rice that could feed more people
To export his rice so that it can be grown around the world.
Home work
Do the learning paper