Reading: A Pioneer For All People Teaching aims and requirements for this lesson: 1.Ss will have a better understanding about Yuan Longping and his super hybrid rice by using reading strategies such as scanning, close reading, paraphrasing and summarizing. 2.Ss are expected to enlarge their vocabulary and write a passage about Yuan Longping using the words and expressions they have learned in the passage. 3.Ss will be able to learn his spirit of scientific research as well as his attitude towards life.

Scanning: Some information about Dr Yuan Nationality Occupation Appearance Education Achievement Hobbies Dreams Chinese 83 scientist/farmer sunburnt…slim and strong… graduated from SAC in 1953 develop super hybrid rice listen to…,play…,swim and read produce a kind of rice …export… Age

Close reading: Paragraph 1 1.What is Yuan Longping? 2. What’s his achievement? a famous __________ an ordinary ________ the first agricultural_________ develop________________ _________of super hybrid rice scientist farmer pioneer super hybrid rice father

3. Why does Dr Yuan consider himself a farmer? 4. Do you think Dr Yuan is more of a scientist or more of a farmer? Why? Dr Yuan’s a__________and a____________. Main idea:ppearancechievement ______________to do his research _________face and arms ____ ________body ordinary work the land sunburnt slim strong extraordinary a scientist the first agricultural pioneer father of hybrid rice

Timeinformation As a young man 1950 In a recent harvest Now was born graduated form SAC saw the great need for increasing the rice output Chinese farmers could produce… 200 million tons of rice was produced circulating his knowledge to … Paragraph 2: Main idea:Dr Yuan’s e___________and r___________.xperienceesearch

What does the word “battle” refer to in the second paragraph? A. The low rice output. B. Ridding the world of hunger. C. Fighting against farming. D. The freedom to do research.

1.Why doesn’t he care about being famous? 2.What’s his attitude towards money? 3.What does the following sentence“He believes that a person with too much money has more rather than fewer troubles.” mean? Paragraph 3: He feels it gives him less freedom to do his research. He doesn’t care about being rich/wealthy, either. He has no interest in ______or _______.fame wealth Main idea:Dr Yuan’s p___________and h___________.ersonalitiesobbies

listen to violin music swimming play mah-jong His hobbies: reading

The first dream: The second dream: To produce a kind of rice that could feed more people To export his rice so that it can be grown around the globe Main idea: Paragraph 4: Dr Yuan’s d_________.reams What does the sentence “ Just dreaming for things, however, costs nothing.” mean? (his life goal) Makes it possible to produce______more of the crop … More than_____of the rice produced in China is from… Farmers are producing harvests_____as large as before 20% 60% twice

In his dream: rice plants: each ear of rice: each grain of rice: as tall as sorghum simile( 明喻） as big as an ear of corn as huge as a peanut

The structure of the passage A Pioneer For All People Para 1 Para 2Para 3 Para 4 Dr Yuan’s appearance and achievement Dr Yuan’s experience and research Dr Yuan’s personalities and hobbies Dr Yuan’s dreams Dr. Yuan is the firstperson to grow super hybrid rice. A brief introduction to Yuan Longping and his hybrid rice. The rice he developed benefits people all over the world.

Yuan Longping is a great man, for he has________ for human race for the past five________. As a young man, he saw the great_____for increasing the rice _______.He searched for a way to increase rice harvest without__________the area of the fields.________his special rice,farmers can produce harvest ______ as large as before.________to his research, the Chinese have already_______themselves of_______. __________, he is called “father of hybrid rice”. In addition,he is _____________ with his life.He doesn’t care about being_______and_______.He_____________keep time for his hobbies. Such is Yuan Longping. Consolidation:Fill in the blanks using suitable words. famous decades struggled output need Usingexpanding Thanks twice ridhunger satisfied Therefore richwould rather

Discussion: 1.What do you think of Dr Yuan? Use some adjectives to describe him based on the supporting sentences in the text. modest ordinary hard-working strong-willed (determined) strong-willed (determined) knowledgable caring selfless devoted generous ambitious patient

2.How can we end hunger(especially in some African countries) in the world?

The measures taken to deal with hunger : zxxk Save any grain of rice; Control population; Develop a new kind of plant suitable for desert areas; Stop polluting the environment and protect the soil in the field; …

Homework: 1.Write a short passage to introduce Dr Yuan Longping within 120 words. 2.Read the text carefully and try to find some useful words, expressions and sentence structures.