Oxford English
Unit
6
Module 3 time
Healthy diet
Period 6
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Background knowledge
Look at the picture and answer the questions.
They are growing plants in the fields. It is hard and tiring.
With sweat dripping onto the field. Who realizes that the food on the/3irsVpfRlraINt/e— Every grain—comes from bitter suffering?
In pairs, discuss the questions below.
The only thing he thinks of now is finding home and bed.
A gentle wind is whispering of ho/p3eefRat/nd dreams/storafIfl/ife; Every grain of rice requires such effort and such strife.
Self-assessment
Homework
1. 抄写单词和短语：pity，drip，suffering， buffalo，effort，strife，tend；in the fading light。
2. 翻译第二首诗歌。 3. 选择性完成《英语（九年级 上册）B 》第108
至111页Integration的练习。
Read the second poem and answer the questions.
The rice farmer
by Saoirse McCann The Sun is setting low, the red sky a welcoming sight;
The farmer stands silently in the fading/l3ibgVhfRtl.RW/ The fields are watered and planted, the buffaloes are fed;
Find the rhyming words from the second poem and mark their pronunciations.
A Read these two poems about farming and answer the questions below.
B Discuss the questions with your classmates.
More practice
Read the first poem. Then answer the questions.
/3pIti/
Pity the farmer
by Li Shen (772–846) The farmer hoes grain in the noonday sun,
/drIp/
Remember, when you sit and eat with family or friends, /tend/
All the many hours he works, as his fields he tends.
In groups, discuss the implied meanings of the sentences.