Unit 2
working the land
Warming ,Pre-reading and Reading
Warming up
1.Have you ever been to the countryside?
what did you do there?
2.Are you from a farmer’s family?
what do you know about farming?
plow the field
grow some young plants
insert the young plants into the field
Spray the agricultural chemicals
harvest
rice
Farmers weeding at noon,
Sweat down the field soon.
Who knows food on a tray,
Due to their toiling day.
A poem
by Li shen
Look at the pictures below. did you know these facts before? What problem do they show?
Pre-reading
Discussion
If tomorrow
Discussion
What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?
Why could China feed 22%of the world’s people from just 7%of the farmland?
Who plays such an important part in
Chinese agriculture?
A Pioneer for All People
Yuan Longping
Father of Hybrid Rice
What kind of rice does DrYuan grow?



2. What is the main idea of the passage?
Listening
Super hybrid rice
an agricultural pioneer named Yuan Longping who worked hard to produce a new strain of rice
Match the following headings(标题)to each paragraph.
Writing a poster(海报) for the text.
Pairwork
Dr Yuan’s appearance and
his achievement.
1). Sunburnt face and arms, slim and
strong body.

2). Grow hybrid rice.

3). The first agricultural pioneer.
Para1 his appearance and achievement
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.
True or False:
1.Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist.
2.Dr Yuan’s kind of rice is the most suitable  for China’s farmland.
F
T
His biography.
1). In 1931. born.
2) In 1953, graduated and devoted his life to finding ways to grow rice.
3) Last year, twenty billion tons of rice was produced. Now, Dr. Yuan is circulating his knowledge.
Para2
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 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:
Put Dr Yuan’s biography in right order.
a
c
b
e
d
f
He is satisfied with his life. Because he doesn’t like money and fame.
His personality.
Para3 His personality
Which of the following description about Dr Yuan’s personality（个性） 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.
Para4 His dreams
1.What does “Wishing for things, however, costs nothing.” mean?

2.What did Dr Yuan’s 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
If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do ?
Thinking
The measures taken to deal with hunger
Invent a new kind of plant to produce more food.
Find a sort of fertilizerto give rice enough nutrition(营养).
Stop the pollution to the environment and protect the soil in the field.
Suppose you were Dr Yuan’s daughter or son. Introduce your “father” to your classmates. You may use the following expressions:
more… than… sunburnt face & arms
slim, strong body invent super hybrid rice
be famous as in 1930
in 1953 at present
be satisfied with lead a…life
prefer freedom to fame
would rather hobbies
dream of doing sth.
Homework
Thank You!