Unit 2 Working the land教学课件(英语人教版高中必修4)

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1. What is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries?
2. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there were suddenly no rice to eat?
Detailed-reading
Para. 2
1. Why did Dr. Yuan want to increase the rice output when he was young?
Because at that time, hunger was a serious problem in many parts of the countryside. He saw many people were suffered from hunger when he was young.
more than normal rice
Hobbies _v_io_li_n_m__u_si_c_, _m_a_h_j_on_g_,_s_w_i_m_m_i_n_g_, _re_a_ding
Detailed-reading
Find out the main idea of each paragraph.
farmer seed machine
water tool
field
cattle village rice
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Do you know where food comes from and how crops are raised?
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First, the farmers plow the field. They have to make the soil loose enough to plant crops.
Fast-reading
New words and structures
1. work the land: use the land to get its esources, such as through farming or mining.
2. twice as (large or many): two times
Second, grow some young plants. Third, they insert the young plants into the loose field. They fertilize the field. At last, they will get the harvest.
Pre-reading
How to solve hunger?
Prevent the pests from eating our crops.
Develop agricultural science and technology.
Improve the quality of the soil.
Make good use of the waste land.
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.
Pre-reading
Look at the picture and read the statistics on P. 9. Is the boy strong? Is he healthy? What lead him to this kind of situation?
_dr_e_am_ s_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Detailed-reading
True or False
1. Dr. Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist. F 2. Dr. Yuan’s rice is one of the most suitableways for China’s farmland. T 3. Dr. Yuan would rather work than relax. T 4. Dr. Yuan has dreams when he is asleep and also when he is awake. T 5. Dr. Yuan enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people. T
Detailed-reading Para. 1
1. What dose Dr. Yuan look like? Why? He looks like a farmer because he always works under
the sun for long time.
2. What is his achievement? He produces super hybrid rice.
Every year 15 million children die of hunger. About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age. If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do?
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Everyday food
Country / Area
England Canada
USA China Italy India Japan South America / Central America
Basic food
potatoes and bread rice and pasta corn
Work hard by hoe at midday, Sweating the soil. Do you know that grains come from? It’s due to the hard work of the a farmers Plough soil in the noon with the sweat drop in the land, who knows the food made of hard?
2. How dose he help rid the world of hunger? He works hard to produce the hybrid rice that has a high output.
Detailed-reading
Put Dr Yuan’s biography in right order.
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ploughing
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growing some young plants
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insert the young plants
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fertilizing
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harvesting
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Sympathy for the Peasants By Li Shen
Paragraph
Main Idea
1
H i s a_p_pe_a_ra_n_ce_a_n_d_a_ch_ie_v_em_e_n_ts_ _ _ _ _ _ _
2
H i s bi_rt_h_, e_d_uc_a_ti_on_a_n_d_re_s_ea_rc_h_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
3
H i s n_o_bl_e _pe_r_so_n_al_ity_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Fast-reading
What is the main idea of the passage?
It is about an agricultural pioneer named Yuan Longping who worked hard to produce a new strain of rice.
Dream _to_e_x_p_o_r_t _h_is_h_y_b_r_id__r_ic_e_s_o_t_h_at_i_t_c_a_n_b_e_grown around the globe
Achievement _I_n_1_9_7_4_, _h_e_d_e_ve_l_o_p_ed__h_y_b_ri_d_r_i_ce which produces 1/3
d. 2 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.
Name _Y_u_a_n_L_o_n_g_p_i_n_g Age _7_9_(_a_s_o_f_2_0_0_9)_ Nationality ___C_h_in_e_s_e__ Occupation _a_g_r_ic_u_l_tu_r_e_s_c_ie_n_ti_s_t _/ f_a_rmer Education _g_ra_d_u_a_t_ed__fr_o_m__S_o_u_th_w__es_t_A_g_r_ic_u_l_tu_ral College in 1953
Reading
Look 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 are fight.
Unit 2
Working the land
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What do you think this unit will talk about? What are the three persons in the text on P. 9 doing?
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What do you think of when you see the word agriculture?
Invent a new kind of food.
Pre-reading
Who is he?
Yuan Longping Father of Hybrid Rice
Pre-reading
Professor Yuan Longping is famous in research on hybrid rice. He gave birth to a hybrid rice which output 30% more than ordinary ones, which has been widely used in the rice fields. The hybrid rice by Yuan and his co-researchers has made the earth produce extra rice equivalent to food for 80 million or more people.
3. having more rather than fewer: You expect fewer troubles but in fact you get more than you thought you would.
Scanning
Complete the notes about Yuan Longping.