Listening to violin music, playing Hobbies:__m_a_h__-j_o_n_g_,_s_w_i_m_m__i_n_g_a_n_d_ reading.
Careful reading:
Read the passage carefully and finish the following activities.
• He doesn’t care about _f_am__e__ and __m_o_n_e_y_. He likes freedom for his search
and hobbies.
Hobbies:
listening to violin music playing mah-jong swimming reading
Task 2 Careful reading
Para. 1 Dr Yuan’s appearance and his 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
headings with the right paragraphs. A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE
Para1 Para2 Para3 Para4
A. Dr Yuan’s dreams. B. Dr Yuan’s personality. C. Dr Yuan’s biography. D. Dr Yuan’s appearance
In order to improve the output of the crop, I need to
rid the soil of the weed, water the crop, fertilize the tosiomilparnodvektilhleooffutthpeutpce so that it can be grown all over the world
Discussion
If you had the chance to do something to rid the world of hunger, what would you do ?
First, buy or select the seeds from the
store.
Second, I need to plough or turn over the soil.
Third , I sow the seeds in
the soil.
Finally, I can harvest my grain/sorghum/peanuts .
Unit 2
Working the Land
Warming up and reading
Step 1: warming up
1. Have you ever been to the countryside? 2. Do you know how to work on a farm?
Welcome to my happy farm!
and his achievement.
Who is Yuan Longping?
Name:_Y_u_a_n__L_ongping Nationality:__C_h_i_n_e_se____ Age:___8_5_____ Occupation(job):_F_a_r_m_e_r_/ Scientist Education: _S_o_u_th_w__es_t_A_g_r_i_cu_l_tu_r_a_l_College
f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries. acb ed f
Paragraph 3
• Topic sentence?
Personality
• Dr Yuan is quite satisfied with his life.
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Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray, Due to their toiling day.
fertilize the soil
kill off the pest
To export his rice so that it can be grown
Dream:_a_r_o_u_n_d_t_h_e_g_lo_b_e_.________________
His super hybrid rice (this hybrid Achievement:_r_i_ce__h_a_s_a__h_ig_h__o_u_t_p_u_t_)
Achievement
Para. 2 His biography
Time
information
1930
Born
1953
Graduated from college
As a young 1.Hunger was a great problem.
man
2.Saw the great need for increasing
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.
water the crop
rid the soil of the weed
Pioneer n. person who is the first to study a new area of knowledge.
What’s the meaning of “pioneer”?
Fast reading ：Task 1 Scanning Match the following
Paragraph 4
Topic sentence?
dreams
Just dreaming for things, however, costs nothing.
Para 4: his dreams
His first dream
His second dream
▲(rice plants) As tall as sorghum ▲( each ear) As big as an ear of corn ▲(each grain) As huge as a peanut
d. 200 million 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.
scientist.
Appearance
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.
the rice output.
In a recent
Means?
200 million tons was produced
harvest
UN rid
now
Circulating hitoshfekhnwuonowgrledlredge
22% 7%
Put the Dr Yuan’s biography in right order.
The measures taken to deal with hunger:
Invent a new kind of plant to produce more food.
Find a sort of fertilizer(肥料)to give rice enough nutrition.
Stop the pollution to the environment and protect the soil in the field. … etc.