Book 4 Unit2 Working the land ---Reading【Learning Goals】1. Get the students to know about Dr Y uan Lon gping and his great achievements.2. Improve the students' reading skills by skimming, scanning, and intensive reading, etc.3. Help the students make up their minds to make contributions to our motherland in the future like Dr Y uan.【课前预习自主研读】T ask 1 Warming up and Pre-reading1.What words to do with agriculture can you think of?____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 2.What are the serious problems the world faces today?____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ T ask 2Skimming1.Skim the text to find the main idea of it.The text is about ________________ ________________ in farming.Y uan has made a great ________________ to producing better ________________.2. Read the text and match each paragraph with its main idea.()1. Para.1 A.Y uan Longping's attitude towards life[来源学科网]()2. Para.2 B.Y uan Longping's appearance and achievements.()3. Para.3 C.Y uan Longping's dream.()4. Para.4 D.Y uan Longping's brief life experience.T ask 3 ScanningRead the text and choose the best answer.( )1. Why did Y uan Longping want to develop a new species of rice in the 1950s?A.Because he wanted to win an award.B.Because he wanted to catch others’ eyes.C.Because hunger was a disturbing problem in China.D.Because his hometown suffered from drought.( )2. How long did it take Y uan Longping to develop his super hybrid rice?A.12 years.B. 14 years.C.20 years.D. 25 years.( )3.What does Y uan Longping think of being famous?A.It gives him a chance to know more important people.B.It makes him have more money to buy what he wants.C.It gives him a chance to take up more hobbies.D.It makes him have less freedom to do his research.( )4.The sentence “Just dreaming for things, however, costs nothing” in the last paragraph means that __________.A.one should have dreams.B. one shouldn’t have dreams.C.one’s wishes are easy to realize.D.one’s wishes for things that cost nothing.[来源学科网]T ask 4 Careful readingPlease read the text carefully and try to find out some information of Y uan Longping.1.Nationality: ________________________________________________________________2.Occupation: ________________________________________________________________3.Appearance: _______________________________________________________________cation: _________________________________________________________________5.Dream: ___________________________________________________________________6.Hobbies: __________________________________________________________________7.Achievements: _____________________________________________________________ T ask 5 SummaryFrom his 1 (sunburn) face and arms, Y uan Longping looks just like one of millions ofChinese farmers. He 2 (struggle) for these farmers for the past five 3 (decade). Y uan Longping became the first agricultural pioneer 4 (grow) rice with a high output all over the world. This kind of rice is called super hybrid rice. When he was still a young man, hunger used to be a very 5 (disturb) problem in many parts of the countryside. That's 6 he decided to increase rice harvests without 7 (expand) the fields. Thanks 8 his hard work, 22% of the world's people are fed from only 7% of the farmland in the world. However, Y uan Longping is not 9 (satisfy) with the achievements he has made. He dreams of contributing even more to 10 people of the whole world.1. _____________2. _____________3. _____________4. _____________5. ____________6. ____________7. _____________8. _____________9. _____________ 10. ____________ T ask 6 Discussion1.Is Y uan Longping more of a scientist or more of a farmer? Give your reasons.____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________.[来源学科网]2.In which field do you want to be a pioneer? What contributions do you want to make?____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________【博观约取厚积薄发】T ask 7 Find the phrases in the text and remember them.1.耕种土地________________________2. 做研究______________________________3. 千百万___________________________4. 为…而斗争___________________________5. 有影响，有作用___________________6.在过去的50年里______________________7. 毕业于…_________________________8. 寻求，寻找____________________________9. 传播知识_________________________ 10. 幸亏，由于，因为______________________ 11. 使…摆脱或去除__________________ 12. 对…感到满意________________________ 13. 关心，在意_____________________ 14.宁愿做______________________________15.喜欢做某事______________________ 16. 使某人能胜任某事____________________ 17. 过着…的生活____________________ 18. 怀着…的希望________________________ Task 8 Analyse these sentences and recite them.1.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.[来源Z x x k C o m]2.Yuan Longping grows what is called super hybrid rice.[来源学科网Z X X K]3.In 1973, he became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output.4.This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce 20％more of the crop in the same fields.5.Since then, finding ways to grow more rice has been his life goal.6.Yuan Longping searched for a way to increase rice harvests without expanding the area of the fields.ing his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before.8.He awoke from his dream with the hope of producing a kind of rice that could feed more people.【语言运用巩固提升】T ask 9 Consolidation一．用所给单词的正确形式填空1.They were all ____________ by the ____________ news; that is, the news ____________ all of them. (disturb)2.The result of the experiment was very ____________. Not only did we feel ____________ with it, but also our teacher looked at us with ____________. (satisfy)3.A great number of people are going ____________ and hundreds of children have died of ____________. ( hunger )4.The laboratory of the training school ____________ with computers and other necessary ____________. (equip)5.One of his ____________ is fishing, which ____________ most of his spare time, and his wife often reminds him to be ____________ with his work rather than fishing. (occupy)。