1. Unit 2 Working the land
Reading

2. Poem Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon.
---By Li Shen
Farmers weeding at noon,
Sweat down the field soon.
Who knows food on a tray,
Due to their toiling day.

3. plow the field

4. grow some young plants

5. insert the young plants into the field

6. harvest

7. rice

9. Task 2: Skim the passage to check if you are right or not.
Pre-reading
Task 1: Look at the title of the passage and the picture on Page 10. Predict what the reading passage is about?
Task 2: Skim the passage to check if you are right or not.

10. Skimming
Task :Skim the passage to find Yuan Longping’s main achievement.
He grows super hybrid rice.

11. Fast Reading Task :What is the main idea of each paragraph? Para1
His dreams
His personality
What he thinks of himself and his achievement
His biography and his achievements

12. A pioneer for all people
What he thinks of himself + achievement
His biography and achievements
His personality
His dreams

13. Yuan Longping -- Father of Hybrid Rice

14. Careful Reading
Task 1 Read the passage and decide whether the following are true or false.
Dr. Yuan’s kind of rice is the most suitable for China’s farmland.
Dr. Yuan is a farmer not a scientist.
Dr. Yuan would rather work than relax.
Dr. Yuan enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people. T F T T

15. Careful Reading
Task Read the passage and decide whether the following are true or false. F
5.The special rice makes it possible to produce one-fifth more of the crop in the same field.
6.Dr. Yuan cares about being famous.
7.One of his dreams is to export his rice so that it can be grown around the world. F T

16. Careful Reading
Task Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks.
Name
Nationality
Age
Occupation
Yuan Longping
Chinese 79
Scientist

17. Education
Dream
Achievement
Hobbies
Graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953
To export his hybrid rice so that it can be grown around the world
Developed hybrid rice
Listening to violin music, playing mah-jong, swimming and reading

18. Why does he consider himself a farmer?
Post reading
Why does he consider himself a farmer?
He works in the field to do his research.
Sunburnt face and arms and his slim , strong body.
The first agricultural pioneer in the world.
Grow hybrid rice.

19. Post reading Is Dr Yuan more of a scientist or more of a farmer?
Do you think he is a businessman?

20. I think he is more of a scientist
I think he is more of a scientist. His main purpose is not to make a profit for himself but to study agriculture
and use that knowledge to improve farming for farmers everywhere. I do not think he is a businessman, because his goal is not to make money.

21. How would you describe Dr Yuan’s personality? Use some adjectives.
Patient, careful, hard-working, intelligent, considerate, kind, determined, helpful, unselfish…

22. Post reading An interview
Reporter: Dr Yuan, may I ask you some questions?
Dr Yuan: Go ahead.
Reporter: …

23. There is still hunger in the world.
Discussion
There is still hunger in the world.
If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do ?

24. The measures taken to deal with hunger.
Invent a new kind of plant to produce
more food.
Find a new sort of fertilizer(肥料)to give rice
enough nutrition
Find some new ways to stop the pollution
to the environment and protect the soil in
the field.

25. One of the best ways to solve the food shortage problem is to increase rice harvests through the science and technology.

26. Homework
Writing practice
Write a short biography about Dr.Yuan
(about 120 words)
2. Learned the words by heart.