Working the land
Warming up and reading
Plough / turn over the soil
Sow the seed
Transplant rice seedlings
How to increase the rice output
rid the soil of the weed
water / irrigate the crop
kill off the pest
fertilize the soil
harvest
rice
What measures can be taken to deal with hunger?
Invent a new kind of plant to produce more food.
To stop wasting
Stop polluting the environment and protect farmland.
… etc.
Control the increase of population
To develop agricultural technology
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.
Para 1

Para 2

Para 3

Para 4

Appearance & Achievements
Get the main idea of each Paragraph:
Personal information (Birth, education..)
Personality & Hobbies
Dreams
Para 1: Appearance & achievements:
What does Yuan Longping look like?
Yuan Longping considers himself as a _____ rather than a scientist. He has ______ face and arms and a ___, ____ body.
farmer
sunburnt
slim
strong
Paras 1& 2
What achievements has he got?
He became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output.
Now more than 60% of the rice produced in China each year is from this hybrid strain.
22% of the world’s people are fed from just 7% of the farmland in China.
Using Yuan’s hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as they did before.
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。

Para 2: Personal information:
1930:

1953:

As a young man

1950:

In a recent harvest:

Now:
Born in…
Graduated from…
Saw the need for…
Produce 50 million…
200 million…
Circulate his knowledge..
Para 3: Personality & hobbies :
Which sentences can show his personality ?
He doesn’t care about ______ and _______. He likes _______ for his research and hobbies
fame
money
freedom
Para 4 :dreams
The 1st dream:
to produce a kind of rice that could feed more people
rice plants
each ear of rice
each grain of rice
as tall as sorghum
as big as an ear of corn
as huge as a peanut
The 2nd dream:
to export his rice so that it can be grown around the globe
He won _______ state prizes
and ____ world prizes,
which add up to ___ million yuan.
His name is worth __________ yuan.
many
11
9
100 billion
A planet was named after him.
Something you don’t know about Yuan:
A Pioneer for All People
Father of hybrid rice
人就像一粒种子。要做一粒好的种子，身体、精神、情感都要健康。种子健康了，我们每个人的事业才能根深叶茂，枝粗果硕。

—— 袁隆平
What do you think of Yuan? Why do you think so?
Example:
He succeeded, I think, mainly because of his hard work and determination. Anyone can see it from his sunburnt face and arms and his slim and strong body. Besides, he has struggled for farmers for the past five decades.
Can you think of anyone else that is also a pioneer for all people just like Yuan Longping?