必修四Unit2Working the land Warmingup
人教版高中英语必修四 Unit 2 Working the land Warming up教案
高中英语人教版必修 4Unit 2 Working the LandWarming up & Reading教学设计Analysis of the teaching material.The topic of this unit is working the land, which is very familiar to the students because many of them live in the rural areas. This is the first teaching period, and my teaching lesson includes warming up, pre-reading and reading. In warming up and pre-reading, we mainly talk about farming and agriculture, students will be able to learn some important words, and expressions and also know that the world faces a serious problem-starvation. Thus, they will realize the significance of farming and learn more knowledge of agriculture. The reading text mainly introduces our famous agriculturist Yuan Longping. So after reading the passage about Dr Yuan, Students will know the importance of his achievement and his contribution to we human beings. Of course they will learn some noble characters and spirits from Dr Yuan.Analysis of the studentsThe students of Senior 1 have accumulated a certain amount of vocabulary and mastered some reading skills, so we teacher can give them the lesson based on their former knowledge experience. But we have to keep in mind that the English ability of the students is not on the same level, so we must make sure every students will be stimulated and involved in the class. Class Four, Grade one is my teaching class. Some of the students are from the rural areas. So They are familiar with life in the countryside and know something about farming. As for the learning methods, they are poor in cooperative learning skills. Some students are not active Teaching AimsKnowledge aims: 1.Get the students to learn the useful new words, expressions and sentence structures in this part.2.Enable the students to read the passage and learn about Yuan Longping and his hybrid strain of rice.Ability aims:1.Develop students’ reading ability and let them learn different reading skills.2.Enable students to talk about Yuan Longping and his hybrid strain of rice.Emotional objectives:1.Help students to have a better understanding of the great value of the scientific research done by Yuan Longping.2.Calculate students’ sense of sympathy and humanism.3.Get the students to learn some noble characters from Yuan Longping .Teaching key points and difficulties:Teaching key points：1.Get the students to learn and master some words and expressions and sentence patterns in this period.2. Help the students comprehend the text and grasp the main idea of the text and each paragraph.3.Enable the students to learn from Yuan’s story and come to the idea that great personality is of importance to one’s success.Teaching difficult points ：1. Help students learn more about agriculture.2. Help students master some reading skills.3.Help students make up their minds to make contributions to motherland in the future . Teaching methods:I n this lesson I’ll mainly use “Communicative” Approach, “Situational teaching” and “Task-based” language teaching and Whole Language Teaching .Teaching aids:I’ll make use of some basic teaching means, and modern electricity teaching equipments Teaching procedures:Step 1 : Warming up1. Show a famous poem written by Lishen in order to ask students to cherish food.2.Ask the students a few questions to arouse their interest in the topic of this unit.(1)Have you ever been to the countryside? What did you see or do there?(2).Are you from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming?Step 2. Pre-reading1. Ask the students two questions.(1).What is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries?(2).What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?2. Look at the title and picture ,then predict what the passage is going to talk about.Step 3. Fast reading:1. Which of the following statements tells the main idea of the text?A. A farmer named Yuan LongpingB. How Yuan Longping became rich and famousC. A new strain of rice which is called super hybrid riceD. An agricultural pioneer named Yuan Longping who worked hard to produce a new strain of rice2. Pair work：Match the following headings(标题）to each paragraph.Para. 1 A. Dr Yuan’s dreams.Para. 2 B. Dr Yuan’s personalityPara. 3 C. Dr Yuan’s b rief introduction.Para. 4 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement.Step 4. Careful reading:1.Ask some students to answer the following questions:Para1:Q1: What does Dr Yuan look like?Q2: What is his achievement?Para 2:Put the facts into right order.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.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. Para 3:Which of the following descr iption about Dr Yuan’s 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.C. He would rather work than lead a comfortable life.D. He enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people.Para4:Q1. What did Dr Yuan’s rice look like in his dream?Q2.What is Dr Yuan’s dream now?2.Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks.Yuan LongpingAppearance_________ face and arms ,______and_______ bodyAchievementsdeveloped super hybrid ricebecame the first__________________ in the world to grow high output ricehelps the UN reduce _______ in the worldExperiencesborn in 1930 and _________ from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953finding ways to grow more rice has beenhis life _____to ________ his knowledge in less developed countries such as India and VietnamPersonalitiesis satisfied with his lifedoesn’t care about being _________gives a large amount of money to help others to do their ________in agriculturehas many dreams and never gives up loves and ________ his peopleDreamsto produce a kind of rice that could _____ more peopleto _______ his rice so that it can be grown around the globeStep 5 .Post-reading1.Consolidation:Finish off the resume of Dr.Yuan and try to retell the story about him.2.Discussion:If you had a chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do? Step 5. Homework1.Read the passage again and try to retell the passage.2.Write a short passage about Yuan Longping.Blackboard design:Teaching reflection:。
英语：必修4 Unit2 Working the land-Warming up,Pre-reading and Reading课件(新人教版)
working the land
The first period ,PreWarming ,Pre-reading and Reading
Warming up 1.Have you ever been to the
countryside? what did you do there?
farmer's 2.Are you from a farmer s family? what do you know about farming?
What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?
Who plays such an 22%of the part in Why could China feed importantworld's Chinese agriculture? people from just 7%of the farmland?
Q2: What is his achievement 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. scientist. 2.Dr Yuan's kind of rice is the most suitable for China's farmland.
人教课标必修4 Unit2 Working the land 教案
人教课标必修4 Unit2 Working the land 教案Period 1 Warming up and pre-reading.Step 1 Lead-in.Poem By Li ShenFarmers weeding at noon,Sweat down the field soon.Who knows food on a tray,Due to their toiling day.Step 2.Warming up (Questions)1. Have you ever grown any plants? If so, what did you do to grow them? If not, what kind of plant would you like to grow? How will you grow it?2. Have you ever been to the countryside? What did you do there?3. Are you from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming?Step 3 Pre-reading and talking1. 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?Tips: It is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice every day throughout the world；suffer from starvation/die of hunger; panic, get into trouble2. If you had the chance to help end hunger in the world, what would you do?3. Do you know who Yuan Longping is ?A brief introduction:Yuan Longping is known as China’s “father of hybrid rice”. It’s said that in China, we eat depending on “Two Ping” ---- Deng Xiaoping, who made the policy of System of Production Responsibility, & Yuan Longping, who invented hybrid rice.Yuan Longping, who was born in September, 1930, graduated from Agriculture Department in Southwest Agricultural Institute. He has been working on agriculture education & the research into hybrid rice since he left the institute.In the 1960s, when China was suffering from serious famine, he came up with the idea of hybrid rice, which has a high yield ( or output). Ten years later, he succeeded in inventing a new species that produced a 20 percent higher yield than common types of rice.Yuan devoted himself to the research into agriculture, & was honored by UNESCO & FAO(联合国教科文组织）. Although he is 74 years old, he is still working on the research into agriculture.Period 2 ReadingStep 1 Lead-in。
必修4 unit 2 working the land warming-up and reading
Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.
Para. 1
Para. 2
A. Dr Yuan’s dreams B. Dr Yuan’s personality
Para. 3
Para. 4
C. Dr Yuan’s appearance
a
c
b
e
d
f
Choose the best answer.
1. Which of the following description about Dr Yuan’s appearance is not mentioned? A. He has a slim and strong body. B. He has a sunburnt face. C. He is very tall. D. He looks more like a farmer than a scientist.
P11 1
Complete the following notes about Yuan Longping.
Name: Yuan Longping Nationality: Chinese Age: 84 (as of 2014) Occupation: scientist/farmer Education: graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953 Dream: to export his hybrid rice so that it can be grown around the globe
Today our world houses more than 7 billion people.
高中英语必修四Unit2Working_the_land_Warmingup
The only way to solve the food
shortage problem is to increase
the yield(产量，产出) of the grain crop per land area through the
advancement（发展，促进，提升）
of science and technology.
Dr Yuan Longping (袁隆平博士) He is the father of hybrid rice, who was awarded “the Nobel Prize of Asia”. He received the honor for his great
contributions to hybrid rice research
What do you know about “farming”?
sorghum
wheat
rice
tomato
corn
potato
cabbage
carrot
Can you name these food?
sorghum
wheat
rice
corn
Staple foodቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ主食
Potato
Do you know the farming steps?
Do you know the Chinese poem?
Weed v.除草，清理 n.杂草，水草 Sweat n.汗，出汗 v.出汗，流汗 Tray n.盘子，托盘，碟 Due to 由于，从……来，是……的功劳 Toiling n.苦役，难事 v.跋涉，辛勤劳作
Have you ever been to the countryside? What did you see or do there? Are you from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming?
高中英语 Unit 2《Working the land-warming up》教案 新人教版必修4
50 book 4 unit2 working the land warming up1.review the words we have learned2.help Ss gain some information about farming3.give Ss more chances to improve their spoken EnglishGain some knowledge of agriculture一体化设计：Preparation for the reading教学重点、难点：How to inspire them to express their own ideas教学过程：1、组织教学（导言）Let’s check our vocabulary first.Do the following exercises.Complete the sentences with the words from the box in proper forms. SomeWords may not be used.Sunburnt, strain, output , export , rid …of , would rather , increase , satisfied ,super ,lead…a life , thanks to , struggle1.With the development of science and technology china is ____ many kinds of electricproducts to developing countries.2.Yao Ming plays basketball in NBA and he is a ____ basketball star.3._____ bad weather ,our football match has to be put off.4.Now the old couple _____ simple but happy _____ in the countryside .5.Judging from his ___ _face and arms , he works in the open air .6.I’m very tired . I _____ have a good sleep than go to the cinema .7.The ____ of corn this year is double that of last year .8.We ____ wheat to Russia and import silk from Japan .9.After a long time Tangshan was able to _____ itself____ the sad memory of theearthquake.10.The people _____ to get out of the burning building .Answers to the sentences:1.exporting2.super3.thank to4. is leading a …life5.sunburnt6.would rather7.output 8.export 9.rid … of 10.struggled2、讲授新课：Warming upProcessureStep 1 lead-inWhat are the three things people can ’t live without?Yes , they are air water and food. Can you tell me where the food come from ? yes , the farmland.Today ’s topics is agriculture.Step 2 brainstormWhen you see the word agriculture , what can you think of ?Step 3 QuizIs there any student who comes from countryside?Can you share some experience in the countryside with us ?Ok , thank you . Next I want to see how much do you know about agriculture. ( some pictures for Ss to name the plants )We call the agriculture plants crops . we have many kinds of crops like food crops , economic crops, sugar crops and etc.Step 4 Group discussionWe know farming has existed for a long time especially in China. We will enjoy some pictures and discuss the difference and result in your group . Later the representative will report to others.Step 5 Talking( Help Ss use the persuasive sentence structure to express their ideas.)Let ’s enjoy a poem and guess who it describes.They weeding(除草) at noon,Sweat down the field soon.Who knows food on a tray(盘子),Due to their toiling(苦干的) day.Yes , it describes the working conditions of farmers.what do you think of farmers? Ask two groups to present their research on the life ofpresentIf you are given the chance to be a farmer, a teacher, a businessman and other positions , which one will be better ? And give reasons. There are some sentence structures to help you to persuade others.I would rather… I don’t like…because…I’d prefer… because… It’s a great pity that…It’s better to …This is good value because… If I have a choice I’d choose…because…What is the advantage of …?Make a dialogue using the sentence structure.( let three or four pairs show their work.)4. 课堂练习5、课堂总结：(3m’)Today we get to know some information about agriculture, farming , and farmers. As we know the farmers’ work is important without them people will starve to death let alone the development of the society. They contribute a lot to the society ,who we should show respect for.6、布置作业：(1m’)Preview reading and finish the exercises on P 11。
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I. 教材分析本单元的中心话题是“农业"，学生通过讨论和阅读了解有关农业、农村和农作物种植的内容。
让学生了解农业在整个人类生活中的重要性，了解农村生活，了解中国农民的生活现状，提高他们对农业的认识，并且帮助他们更深刻地理解农业科学家袁降平的科学研究的价值。
培养学生从小养成爱惜粮食，不铺张浪费的好习惯。
同时让学生了解organic farming以及它对人们生活的重要性，进一步扩大学生的关于农业方而的词汇量，并通过写一则海报提高学生的写作水平。
1WARMING-UP通过提问有关农业、农村和农作物种植的内容，让学生谈谈自己対农村和农业劳动的认识或经验。
教师可通过讨论让学生互相学习，相互交流经验以增加他们的农业知识。
2PRE-READING部分有两组问题。
在第一组问题中，讨论大米在东亚和东南亚国家人民生活中的重要性；而第二组问题则提出世界部分地区所面临的饥饿问题。
由此激发学生对世界的关注，培养学生的同情心。
3READING部分介绍中国著名的农业科学家袁降平的生平和他的杂交水稻。
第一段描述了袁博士的外表一一他更象一个农民而不象一个科学家，农村就是他做科研的殿堂。
他的科研成果就是超级杂交水稻。
第二段描述他的家庭出身，学业，献身水稻科研的原因及所取得的成就。
第三段告诉我们袁博士过着跟普通人一样的生活却干着伟大的事业。
即使在功成名就之后，他也淡泊名利，有着无私奉献的高尚精神。
4COMPREHENDING部分设计了三个练习。
第一个是判断练习，学生根据课文中理解和收集的信息做出判断，其至通过讨论才能做出判断。
第二个是词语理解题。
第三个练习提出问题，要求学生在阅读课文后作出冋答，以检验他们的理解力和训练他们的归纳总结能力。
5LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE部分学习本单元重点词汇和语法项目。
词语学习部分采用给出词义而让学生从课文中找出与之匹配的词，然后用所找的词汇完成笫二个练习中的短文，以及用课文中意义相近的词汇替换练习三句中划线部分。
英语：必修4_Unit2_Working_the_land-Warming_up_Pre-reading_and_Reading
Beautiful sentence 2: Indeed, his sunburnt face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like those of millions of Chinese farmers, for whom he has struggled for the past five decades.
one-third more of the crop in the same fields.
Beautiful sentence 1:
Although he is one of China’s most famous scientist, Yuan Longping considers himself a farmer, for he works the land to do his research.
Para2 Put Dr Yuan’s biography in right order .
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.
asleep 3.Dr Yuan has dreams not only when he is _____ awake but also when he is______.
必修四 Unit 2 Working the land Warming Up and Readin
Discussion: How much do you know about Yuan Longping?
He is the Father of Hybrid Rice. He is a scientist. He studies agriculture in order to improve the rice output. He wins a lot of natห้องสมุดไป่ตู้onal and international prizes.
and his achievement.
Task 2
Who is Yuan Longping? (biography)
Name: Yuan Longping Nationality:___C__h_i_n_a_____ Birthdate:__1_9_3_0__ Occupation (job):__F_a_r_m__e_r/__S_ci_e_n_t_is_t_ Education: __S_o_u_t_h_w__es_t_A__g_r_ic_u_l_t_u_r_a_l _C_o_l_le_g_e
What do you know about farming?
What do you know about “farming”?
sorghum wheat
rice
tomatoes
corn
potatoes
cotton
peanut
Agriculture in the past
Agriculture in the modern times
人教版高中英语必修四 Unit 2 Working the land warming up 课件
1. If you can keep ________(read) English newspapers, your English will be improved.
2. He has promised _t_o _co_m_e _____(come) to my birthday party.
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• 我们必须设法避免犯同样的错误。 • We must try to avoid repeating the same mistake． • 晚饭后你想和我一起散步吗? • Do you feel like having a walk with me after
supper? • 人们忍不住嘲笑那个愚蠢的人。 • People couldn’t help laughing foolish man．
Find and underline the sentences in the passage that use—ing forms as either the subject or the object.
Sentences using the --ing form
1. Since then , finding ways to grow more rice has been his life goal . Subject（主语） 2. As a young man , he saw the greatneed for increasing the rice output . Object（宾语）
It is no use/no good/a waste of time +doing
作宾语 动词/介词后+doing making He admitted ________(make) such a silly mistake.
高中英语 Unit 2 Working the land 新人教版必修4
Unit 2 Working the land The First Period Warming up and ReadingTeaching goals1. Enable Ss to learn more about agriculture, countryside and farming.2. Help Ss learn how to describe Dr Yuan Longping including his personality. Teaching important and difficult points1. Help to comprehend the text and grasp the main idea of the text.2. Grasp the usage of some words and expressions.3. How to help students learn more about agriculture.Teaching methodsTalking, questioning-and-answering activity and reading.Teaching proceduresPart one :Warming upStep 1 Lead-in.T :Poem By Li Shen （锄禾）汉译：Farmers weeding at noon,Sweat down the field soon.Who knows food on a tray,Due to their toiling day.Step 2 Warming up by questioningHello, everyone. We shall read about man who works the land today. Have you ever grown any plants? If not, what kind of plant would you like to grow? How will you grow it?Who are from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming?Step 3 Pre-reading1.What are the serious problems the world faces today?*******2. What can we do to solve world hunger?✓✓✓Have you ever heard of a man called Professor Yuan Longping? Would anyone of you tell the class something about him?Part two: ReadingStep1 Lead-inFor reference: Professor Yuan Longping is a Chinese agricultural scientist. Professor Yuan'sbreakthrough scientific achievement led to the world's first successfuland widely grown hybrid rice varieties, revolutionizing rice cultivation inChina and tripling production over a generation. His approach to ricebreeding then spread internationally throughout Asia and to Africa andthe United States, providing food for tens of millions and leading to hisbecoming known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice."Step2 Fast-readingActivity 1Ss skim the passage and match the main idea of each paragraph.Para1 A. Dr Yuan’s dreams.Para2 B. Dr Yuan’s personality.Para3 C. Dr Yuan’s biograp hy.Para4 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement.Step3 Careful-readingActivity 1 Read the passage once again,then find out these sentences 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.3）Dr Yuan would rather work than relax.4 ）Dr Yuan has dreams when he is asleep and also when he is awake.5 ）Dr Yuan enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people.Activity 2 Ss review the passage and do Ex.1 on SB P11.Activity 3 Understanding difficult sentencesStep4 Discussion1. What do you think of Dr Yuan from the passage? Why?2. If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, whatwould you do?Step5 Homework。
人教版高中英语必修四Unit2WorkingtheLand2
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Unit 2 Working the land
Warming up:
Are you from countryside? Can you name out some plants? Can you describe the scene when the
锄禾日当午，
汗滴禾下土。
谁知盘中餐，
粒粒皆辛苦。
What is happening to these people in African countries?
What can we do to solve this problem?
International Facts on Hunger and Poverty (2002)
If you have the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do?
A pioneer for all people
Father of Hybrid Rice
Super Hybrid Rice
Hobbies: Violin, mah-jong, swimming and reading
Think about each statement and tick the correct boxes
TrueFalse
Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist. Dr Yuan’s kind of rice is the most suitable for China’s farmland. Dr Yuan would rather work than relax. Dr Yuan has dreams when he is asleep and also when he is awake. Dr Yuan enjoys a simple life than most rich and famous people.
高中英语必修4课件：Unit2+Working+the+land(+warmup)
a plant?
营养物质
The three most important nutrients are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
回答问题
4. When do you think is the harvest time?
分组讨论
What kind of plant would you like to grow? How will you grow it?
2. transplant rice seedlings 4. get in crops
A
B
C
D
Have you ever grown any plants? Do you know the steps of how to grow rice?
plough the field
grow some young plants
all I can give you is love (all I can give you is love)
At present, they use modern
techniques in their fields to improve agricultural production such as chemical fertilizers, greenhouses and so on. Great changes have taken place in agriculture.
Mama I love you..... I didn't want to hear it then but I'm not ashamed to say it now Every little thing you said and did was right for me I had a lot of time to think about
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What is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries?
Food is the basic need for humanbeing. Rice is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries. It is said that there are 2.4 billion people eat rice everyday throughout the world.
Unit 2
Working the land
Enjoy a poem By Li Shen Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon.
Who knows food on a tray,
Due to their toiling day.
Do you know the Chinese poem?
Just at that time, a Chinese scientist declared（宣布，宣称） to the world that China can solve the problem by himself and help to solve the same problem in the world.
A Chinese scientist is helping the hungry people. Who is he?
Yuan Longping --- Father of Hybrid Rice
Father of Hybrid Rice
Do you know anything about him?
2. Preview the Reading:
A PIONEER FOR ALL
PEOPLE
and the work he did to improve rice
production in developing countries.
He is called a pioneer for all people.
袁隆平人物简历
袁隆平被誉为中国的“杂交水稻之父”。中国农 民说，吃饭靠“两平”，一靠邓小平----制定了生产承 hybrid rice; 包责任制的政策，二靠袁隆平----发明了杂交稻。 袁隆平，男，１９３０年９月出生于北京，１９ System of Production ５３年毕业于西南农学院农学系。毕业后，一直从事 Responsibility; 农业教育及杂交水稻研究。 institute; 在中国人民正闹饥荒的20世纪60年代，袁隆平提 suffer the 出了杂交水稻的概念，这种新型水稻具有高产量的特 famine; 点。10年后，他研制成功了一种产量比一般水稻高出 yield; UNESCO, FAO. 20%的新型水稻。 袁隆平一生献身于农业研究，先后受到联合国教 科文组织、粮农组织的称誉。袁隆平虽已年届85岁， 仍然一如既往地从事农业研究。
What do you know about “farming”?
sorghum
wheat
rice
tomato
corn
potato
cabbage
carrot
Can you name these food?
sorghum
wheat
rice
corn
Staple food 主食
Potato
Do you know the farming steps?
Children gather in a poor neighbourhood in the Mawzaa village of the southern Yemeni province of Taiz(塔伊兹（也门西 南部城市）) July 1, 2012.
Hunger
Why could China feed 22%of the world’s people from just 7%of the farmland?
Have you ever grown any plants? If so, what did you do to grow them? If not, what kind of plant would you like to try growing? How would you grow it?
Who plays such an important part in Chinese agriculture?
?
If you had the chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world, what would you do? I’ll make a kind of fertilizer to give rice enough nutrition and let them grow quickly and have high product. I would invent a new kind of plant to produce more food.
The only way to solve the food
shortage problem is to increase
the yield(产量，产出) of the grain crop per land area through the
advancement（发展，促进，提升）
of science and technology.
er of hybrid rice, who was awarded “the Nobel Prize of Asia”. He received the honor for his great
contributions to hybrid rice research
Today there are more than 7 billion people in the world.
Nearly 870 million people were suffering from chronic（长期的） undernourishment（营养不良） in 2010-2012, according to the new UN hunger report.
Weed v.除草，清理 n.杂草，水草 Sweat n.汗，出汗 v.出汗，流汗 Tray n.盘子，托盘，碟 Due to 由于，从……来，是……的功劳 Toiling n.苦役，难事 v.跋涉，辛勤劳作
Have you ever been to the countryside? What did you see or do there? Are you from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming?
Super Hybrid Rice
the rice that has a high output
hybrid cotton
hybrid pear
super hybrid rice
hybrid pepper
hybrid eggplant
hybrid corn
Homework 1. Look up the new words and expressions of the Reading in the dictionary.
Insert（插入）the young plants into the field
Spray the agricultural chemicals
harvest
winnowing (扬谷)
Drying millet
rice
Read the statistics below. Did you know these facts before? What problem do they show? According to the World Health Organization: The world produces enough food for everyone. More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day.
select the weeds
plough the soil
farming steps
turn over the soil
sow the seeds
remove the weeds
fertilize
plow the field
seeding (播种)
grow some young plants