1. Unit 19
Modern agriculture

3. manure

6. Questions: 1. What is the biggest problem of Chinese farmers?
2. What does GM mean?
3. How many parts can you divide the
passage into? What is the general
idea of each paragraph?

7. The biggest problem of Chinese farmers is the shortage of arable land.

8. GM is a new technique that can
make a thing quite different from
what it used to be, bigger and
healthier and with no diseases,
and it takes much
less time to grow.

9. Paragraph 1:
Traditional agriculture in China.
The development of agriculture before the 1980s.
Paragraph 2:
New techniques to protect environ-ment as well as increasing produc-tion from the 1990s.
Paragraph 3:
Ways to solve the problem of the shortage of arable land.
(Greenhouses GM to create plants)
Paragraph 4-6:

10. Ture or Faulse
1.No advanced technical information was brought in from abroad before ( )
2.Scientists have always tried to increase farming production without harming the environment since the early 1990s. ( ) F T

11. 3.Growing vegetables can reduce losses caused by bad weather and it can partly settle the problem of the shortage of arable land. ( )
4.Traditional methods of farming have no advantages so they won’t be used in future agriculture. ( ) T F

12. F 5. The GM technique can only be used
on plants, but not on animals at the
present time. ( ) F

13. Activities
Kind
How
Why
Fruit
Vegetables
Animals