Warming up & Reading
Poem
By Li Shen
Farmers weeding at noon,
Sweat down the field soon.
Who knows food on a tray,
Due to their toiling day.
A poem
Farmers weeding at noon,

Sweat down the field soon.

Who knows food on a tray,

Due to their toiling day.
Warming up
1.Have you ever grown any plants?
If so, what did you do to grow them?
If not, what kind of plant would you like to grow?
How will you grow it?
What do you know about “farming”?
wheat
sorghum
rice
corn
Potatoes
Staple food
select the weeds
plough the soil
turn over the soil
sow the seeds
remove the weeds
fertilize
farming steps
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.
If there was no rice one day, what would happen?
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
A Pioneer For All People
What kind of person is Dr Yuan
Longping in your mind?
happy
sad
nervous
shy
proud
dreaming
Task 1 Skimming
How can he solve this problem?
Super Hybrid Rice
Super Hybrid Rice
the rice that has a high output
That’s how he regards himself.
Task 2 Scanning
Find out the main idea of each paragraph.
A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE
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.
True or False:
1.Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist.
2.Dr Yuan’s kind of rice is the most suitable for China’s farmland.
F
T
Para 2
His biography
Born in Beijing
Southwest Agriculture College
Hunger was a great problem
Saw the great need for increasing the rice output
200 million tons produced
Circulating his knowledge
Para2
a. He was born into a poor farmer’s family .
b. He graduated from Southwest Agriculture college.
c. In 1950,Chinese farmers produced fifty million tons of rice.
d. 2 billon tons of rice was produced by growing  his hybrid rice.
e. He searched 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:
Put Dr Yuan’s biography in right order.
a
c
b
e
d
f
Which of the following description about Dr Yuan’s personality is not true?

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
Para 4
1.What does “Wishing for things, however, costs nothing.” mean?
2.Dr Yuan has dreams not only when he is _____ but also when he is______.
Dreams are free and everybody can have ideas about what they would like their future life to be.
asleep
awake
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
The second dream
Revision. (personal information)
Name:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:
Education:
Dream:
Achievements:
Hobbies:
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
playing his violin
listening to violin music
playing mah-jong
swimming
riding his motorcycle to his rice fields
hard-working
unselfish
determined
energetic
intelligent
confident
active
modest
& between
Dr Yuan Longping and Jane Goodall
similarities
differences
1. They spend their lifetime on their researches.
similarities
2. They make great contributions to mankind and the whole world.
3. They have their dreams and make great efforts to make them true.
4. They both lead a busy life.
5. They love their work with their pure love.
6. They’re selfless and seldom think of themselves.
7. During the work, they never give up but just keep on, so they’re determined.
. . .
differences
They have been doing their
researches in different fields.
2. They have different ways of working.
3. Their receiving education is different.
4. The difficulty in working is different for
different sexes.
5. They two got different results of researches.
6. They hold their different dreams.
. . .
can produce 1/3 more of the crop in
the same fields; more than 60%of the
rice in China from this hybrid strain
besides China, knowledge being
circulated in India, Vietnam and other
less developed countries to increase
their rice harvest
rice harvests being produced twice as
large; 22% of people fed from just 7%
of the farmland in China; the UN
ridding the world of hunger
the rice being grown all over the
world
T or F
1 Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a
scientist.
2 Dr Yuan’s rice is one of the most
suitable ways for China’s farmland.
3 Dr Yuan would rather work than relax.
4 Dr Yuan has dreams when he is asleep
and also when he is awake.
5 Dr Yuan enjoys a simpler life than
most rich and famous people.
Language Points
1. work
vt. 耕种(土地); 使工作; 开动; 创造(奇迹);
经营(工厂、农场等)
vi. 工作; (机器等)开动; (办法、计划等)行得通
work the land=grow crops on it 耕耘土地　
He works a big farm. 他经营着一个大的农场。
They are working the land together.
I don’t think that your suggestion will work.
2. This special strain of rice makes it possible
to produce one-third more of the crop in
the same fields.
这种特殊的稻种使得同样的田地多收获
三分之一的产量。
it 在句中作形式宾语, 真正的宾语为to
produce…, 结构为: 动词(make, feel, think,
regard…)+it +adj+ to do.
e.g. We think it important to learn English well.
3. Born in a poor farmer’s family in 1931, Dr.
Yuan graduate from Southwest Agriculture
College in 1953.
袁博士1931年出身于一个贫苦农民的家庭,
1953年毕业于西南农学院。
graduate n. 毕业生
undergraduate 本科毕业生
post-graduate 硕士毕业生, 研究生
graduate vi. 常跟介词from, 表示“毕业于”
graduation n. 毕业
e.g. After his graduation from college, he went
to work as an engineer in a company.
=After he graduated from college, he went to
work as an engineer in a company.
bachelor’s degree 学士学位
master’s degree 硕士学位
doctor’s degree 博士学位
4. Dr. Yuan searched for a way to increase rice
harvests without expanding the area of fields.
袁博士寻求一种在不扩大种植面积的情况下
提高水稻产量的方法。
1)search 强调搜查, 一般表示目标明确范围较小。
search sb. 搜身; search pl 搜查某地
search for 强调寻找, 一般表示范围较大。
search for sb 寻找某人
The police searched the woods for the lost child.
Scientists are still searching for a cure to the
common cold.
search/search for/in search of
The officer went up _____________
the murder.
The thieves are _________________
the hidden treasure in the museum.
Birds fly to the south ______________
the winter sunshine.
to search
searching for
in search of
6. circulate v. 循环, 交流 circulation n.
e.g. Rumors circulated quickly.
The blood circulates around the body.
7. Using his hybrid rice farmers are producing
harvests twice as large as before.
用他的杂交水稻种子, 农民们种出比以前多
一倍的粮食。
倍数词(twice/half/three times/a quarter etc.)
+as + 形容词原级 +as …表示“是…的多少倍”。
e.g. The number of the students in our school
is ______________________ in their school.
我们学校学生的数量是他们学校的两倍。
twice as large as that
英语中的倍数表达法共有三种形式:
(1) 倍数 + 形容词/副词的比较级 + than...
(2) 倍数 + as +形容词/副词的原级 + as...
(3) 倍数 + the + 名词+ of...
This building is five times higher than that one.
这座楼比那座楼高出五倍。
This building is five times as high as that one.
这座楼是那座楼的五倍高。
This building is five times the height of
that one. 这座楼是那座楼的五倍高。
The new building is four times the size
of the old one.
It is reported that the United States
uses ___ energy as the whole of Europe.
A. as twice      B. twice much  
C. twice much as     D. twice as much
D
8. Indeed, he believes that a person with too
much money has more, rather than fewer
troubles.
1) too much 与much too的区别
too much通常位于动词之后,修饰动词,too
做much的状语, 后面也可接名词。
She does talk too much, doesn’t she?
He has too much work to do.
而much too则常用在形容词或副词之前修饰
形容词或副词。
The dress is much too long for me.
这衣服我穿太长了。
I got into the taxi and drove much too fast.
我上了出租车, 并开得飞快。
2) rather than 而不是
Mary, rather than her roommates, is going
to Beijing.
要去北京的是玛丽, 而不是她的室友们。
注意: rather than 连接两个名词或代词作主语时,谓语动词应与rather than 前面的名词或代词在人称和数上保持一致。
She ran rather than walked. 她跑着而不是走着。
He is a student rather than a worker. 他是学生, 不是工人。 
They lost some books rather than money. 他们丢了一些书, 而不是钱。
I decided to write rather than (to) telephone. 我决定写信而不打电话。
Discussion
What is happening to these people?
Hunger
Discussing
Even if Dr. Yuan’s dreams come t