Unit 2 Working the land
Pre-reading
Answer the following questions:
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?
If that happened, people there would suffer from starvation. People would be panic(惊慌) and the whole country would get into trouble.
Poem By Li Shen
Farmers weeding at noon,

Sweat down the field soon.

Who knows food on a tray,

Due to their toiling day.
What is happening to them ?
Hunger
What is happening to them ?
Father of Hybrid Rice
A Pioneer For All People
Yuan Longping works the land to do his research.
Para.1 Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement
Careful reading
Q1: What does Dr Yuan look like?
He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim, strong body.
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.
Para 2
His biography
Born into a poor farmer’s family
Graduated from Southwest Agriculture College
Saw the great need for increasing the rice output
Hunger was a disturbing problem
nearly200 million tons was produced
Circulating his knowledge
a. He was born into a poor farmer’s family . b. He graduated from Southwest Agriculture college. c. In 1950,Chinese farmers produced 5.5 billion tons of rice. d. 20 billon tons of rice was produced by growing his hybrid rice. e. He searched for 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:
a
c
b
e
d
f
Put Dr Yuan’s biography in right order.
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
His dreams
Para 4
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
Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.
Personal information (Resume)
Name:
Nationality:
Birth:
Appearance:
Occupation:
Education:
Personality:
Dreams:
Yuan Longping
Chinese
in 1930; in a poor family
Sunburnt face, arms and slim, strong body
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
listening to violin music
playing mah-jong
swimming
reading
What have you learned from Yuan Longping after reading this text?
As students, we should learn from Yuan longping , and now we must work hard to build up ourselves.
Never give up, and try to achieve our dreams .
Discussion
Dreaming for things costs nothing.
愿望是不花本钱的
Every year 5.6 million children die of hunger.
Every day 18000 children die of hunger.
If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do ?
The measures taken to deal with hunger
Invent a new kind of plant to produce more food.
Find a sort of fertilizer to give rice enough nutrition.
Stop the pollution to the environment and protect the soil in the field.
… etc.
Summary
Read the following mottos together.
1.Interest is the best teacher.
2.I’m not afraid of failure. I will try as hard as I can until I succeed.
3.I love my country, and I will study hard to devote all my life to my country.
Homework:
Read the passage for several times.
Retell the text according to time line after class.
Thank you