人教高中英语必修4Unit2 Warming up (共18张PPT)

making good use of the waste land
Just at that time, a Chinese scientist declared to the world that China can solve the problem by himself and help to solve the same problem in the world. Guess who he is.
Skimming for general idea
Skimming
Reading Comprehension I
Choose the best answer.
What’s the text mainly about? A. A brief introduction to Yuan Longping
and his achievement D. Dr Yuan’s biography
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Scanning Reading Comprehension
1. Dr Yuan’s rice is one of the most suitable ways for China’s farmland.
2. Dr Yuan doesn’t care about being famous.
5.________he was not satisfied with his work. Although now he leads a rich life，he still insists on his work 6.________(develop) his rice. I think his work is really important to the world. Because of his hard work, the production of food 7.________ (improve). And the problem of 8.________ (hungry) can be solved. 9.________ (thank) to Yuan Longping’s great work, millions of people can benefit 10._____ his extraordinary work.
❖ fight for food, even kill each other ❖ and the whole country would get into
trouble.
If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do ?
Unit 2
Working the land
Enjoy a poem By Li Shen
Farmers weeding（锄草）at noon, Sweat（流汗）down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray（盘子）, Due to their toiling（辛苦的）day.
Skimming
Reading Comprehension II
Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.
Para. 1 Para. 2 Para. 3 Para. 4
A. Dr Yuan’s dreams
B. Dr Yuan’s personality C. Dr Yuan’s appearance
Do you know the Chinese poem?
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.
Father of Hybrid Rice
Do you know anything about him?
Dr Yuan Longping (袁隆平博士) He is father of hybrid rice, who was awarded “the Nobel Prize of Asia”. He received the honor for his great contributions to hybrid rice research and the work he did to improve rice production in developing countries. He is called a pioneer for all people.
and his super hybrid rice. B. How to rid the world of hunger. C. How super hybrid rice was developed. D. How super hybrid rice was circulated to
other countries.
What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?
❖ suffer from starvation and starve to death.
❖ feel scared / be panic(惊慌).
3. Dr Yuan enjoys listening to violin music, swimming and running.
4. Dr Yuan is quite satisfied with his life.
Dr Yuan Longping was a pioneer of agriculture in China. He 1._____ (graduate) from Southwest Agriculture in 1953.Since then he devoted his life 2._____ finding ways to grow more rice. The rice farmers are now producing harvest twice 3.______ large as before by 4.________ (use) this kind of rice.
preventing the pests from eating our crops
developing the technology to…
improving the quality How to solve hunger? of the soil
inventing a new kind of food…