Unit 2 Working the land

Have you ever been to the countryside? What did you see or do there? Warming up

Farming Are you from a farmer’s family? what do you know about farming? soil ploughing crops weather &climate Irrigating ( 灌溉 ) ……

ploughing （犁田）

seeding （播种）

fertilizing ( 施肥 )

Irrigating( 灌溉 )

transplanting （移植）

Harvesting （收获）

winnowing ( 扬谷 )

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) The world produces enough food for everyone. More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day. Read the statistics below. Did you know these facts before? What problem do they show? Pre-reading

What is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries? Rice. It is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice every day throughout the world. Pre-reading

What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? If that happened, people there would suffer from starvation. People would be panic( 惊慌 ) and the whole country would get into trouble.

The only way to solve the food shortage problem is to increase the yield of the grain crop per land area through the advancement of science and technology.

In the late 1990s, Brown, an American scholar, came up with the theory of Chinese Menace ( 威胁 ), which said that in the 2030s, Chinese population will add up to 1.6 billion, and had the question who would feed the large population in China as well as in the world.

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.

Father of Hybrid Rice

1.When and who did become the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output? 2. What did Yuan Longping invent? In 1974,Yuan Longping Hybrid rice Task 1 Skimming

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月出生于北京，１９５３年毕业 于西南农学院农学系。毕业后，一直从事农业教育及杂交水稻研 究。 在中国人民正闹饥荒的 20 世纪 60 年代，袁隆平提出了杂交水 稻的概念，这种新型水稻具有高产量的特点。 10 年后，他研制成 功了一种产量比一般水稻高出 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７０岁，仍然一如既往地从事 农业研究。 袁隆平人物简历

Para1 A. Dr Yuan’s dreams. Para2 B. Dr Yuan’s personality. Para3 C. Dr Yuan’s biography( 传记 ). Para4 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement. A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE Task 1 Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.

Para. 1 Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement Task 3 Careful reading 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 scientist. 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.

Para 2 His biography Timeinformation As a young man Last year (in a recent harvest now Born into a poor farmer’s family Southwest Agriculture College 200 million tons produced Circulating his knowledge Saw the great need for … Searched for a way to increase rice harvest without..

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 for 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. Proper order: a c b e df Put Dr Yuan’s biography in right order. Dr Yuan’s biography

Which of the following description 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. Para. 3 Dr Yuan’s personality

His dreams Para4 1) The first dream 2) The second dream

Produce a kind of rice that could feed more people As huge as a peanut The first dream As tall as sorghum As big as a corn

To export his rice so that it can be grown all over the world

Personal information (Resume) Name: Nationality: Birth: Age: Occupation: Education: Personality: Dreams: Yuan Longping Chinese in 1930; in a poor family 77 Scientist of farming Southwest Agriculture College,in 1953 His first dream His second dream care little about money and fame

Personal information Achievements: Hobbies: grow rice that has a high output circulate his knowledge abroad give money to equip others for their research Listening to his violin playing mah-jong swimming reading

Discussion What is happening to these people?

Hunger

If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do ?

How to solve hunger? making good use of the waste land developing the technology to… inventing a new kind of food… improving the quality of the soil preventing the pests from eating our crops

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.

select the weeds plough the soil turn over the soil sow the seeds remove the weeds fertilize farming steps