Warming up & Reading
Working the land
Do you know these grains (谷物)?
wheat
rice
sorghum
高粱
corn
cotton
broomcorn
peanut
soybean
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?
select the weeds
plough the soil
turn over the soil
sow the seeds
remove the weeds
fertilize
farming steps
Do you still remember the advices that Jia Sixie gave on farming?
Farming
sowing
ploughing
irrigating (灌溉)
crops
weather &climate
rice transplanting (插秧)
When we speak of farming, what words
can we think of?
Ploughing (犁田)
some more expressions
seeding
fertilizing
(施肥)
irrigating (灌溉)
transplanting 插秧
harvesting
winnowing (扬谷)
rice
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.
Answer the following questions:
Pre-reading
What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?
suffer from starvation and starve to death.
feel scared / be panic (惊慌).
fight for food, even kill each other
and the whole country would get into trouble.
If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do?
How to solve hunger?
making good use of the waste land
developing the technology to…
inventing a new kind of food…
improving the quality of the soil
preventing the pests from eating our crops
What do you predict this passage is going to talk about?
A Pioneer For All People
Father of Hybrid Rice
He is father of hybrid rice (杂交水稻), who was lately awarded “the Nobel Prize of Asia ”. He received the honor for his great contributions (贡献) to hybrid rice research and work he did to improve rice production in developing countries. Now he is head of the National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center in Hunan Province, China (中国湖南省国家杂交水稻研究与发展中心). He is called a pioneer for all people.
Dr Yuan Longping (袁隆平博士)
他是一位真正的耕耘者。当他还是一个乡村教师的时候，已经具有颠覆世界权威的胆识；当他名满天下的时候，却仍然只是专注于田畴。淡薄名利，一介农夫，播撒智慧，收获富足。他毕生的梦想，就是让所有人远离饥饿。喜看稻菽千重浪，最是风流袁隆平！
--- 袁隆平在2004感动中国中的颁奖词
他在接受“感动中国”栏目组采访时说：“这不是我个人的荣誉，而是国家的荣誉，全国人民的荣誉”。
袁隆平：“我感到最愉快的是一个出新成果，能够在名分上得到安慰的，有所寄托的要出新成果，我不停留在原有的这个成绩的基础上，我相信我们古人讲的话，“谋事在人，成事在天”。
今天中国水稻种植面积中，约有一半是采用袁隆平培育的杂交产品，每年生产的稻谷可以多养活6000多万人。2004年，袁隆平领导的超级杂交稻项目不断取得重大突破，在育种方面提前一年实现了大面积亩产超过800公斤的目标，这意味着每年又可以多养活7500万人。
Super Hybrid Rice
the rice that has a high output
What kind of person do you think Dr Yuan Longping is?
happy
sad
nervous
shy
proud
dreaming
homework checking
task 2
task 3
Find out the main idea of each
paragraph.
Skimming
A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE
Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.
The text is about _______________ who made a great contribution to producing better _____.
Yuan Longping
rice
Para.1: Appearance & Achievement
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.
Careful reading
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: Put Dr Yuan’s life experience in right order.
Keys: a c b e d f
a. He was born into a poor farmer’s family .
b. He graduated from Southwest Agricultural college.
c. In 1950, Chinese farmers produced 50 million tons of rice.
d. 200 million tons of rice was produced by growing his hybrid rice.
e. He searched a way to increase rice harvests without expanding the area of fields.
f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries.
Para.3: Personality & Hobbies
Which of the following description about Dr Yuan’s personality is not true?
A. 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.
A
The first dream:
The second dream:
Produce a kind of rice that could feed more people
Para.4: Dreams
To export his rice so that it can be grown around the globe.
1. Yuan Longping became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow super hybrid rice at the age of 40.
2. More than 60% of the rice in the world is from the hybrid strain.
3. According to the text, farmers in China are producing rice harvests nearly 4 times as large as that in 1950.
True (T) or False (F):
F
F
T
Read the text carefully and choose the
best answers.
1. What does the word “battle” refer to in the second paragraph?
A. The low rice output.
B. Ridding the world of hunger.
C. Fighting against farming.
D. The freedom to do research.
2. From the passage, we can know ______.
A. Yuan Longping is not a pioneer but a scientist in the research of the hybrid rice
B. Yuan’s parents are both agricultural scientists
C. more than 60% of the rice produced in the world is from the hybrid strain
D. using the hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before
3. It can be inferred from the text that ______.
A. Yuan knew the importance of rice import
B. Yuan is interested in playing the violin
C. Yuan is proud of his achievements
D. Yuan’s rice are grown in many countries
Discussion
Even if Dr.Yuan’s dreams come true, can this really solve starvation?
Why did Yuan Longping want to increase the rice output when he was young?
Dr Yuan wanted to increase the rice output because he saw many people go hungry when he was young.
Answer these questions based on your understanding of the passage.
Post reading
2. Is Yuan Longping more of a scientist or more of a farmer? Do you think he is a businessman? Give your reasons.
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.
3. How would you describe Yuan Longping’s personality?
Because of his work with developing hybrid rice, it seems that Dr Yuan must be a very patient and careful man. He didn’t give up but kept working on his project. He Also seems to be a very kind man, who cares for others. He wants to use his invention to help hungry people around the world.
4. Yuan Longping was able to develop a successful agricultural product when thousands of other farmers could not. What do you think is the main reason for his success?
I think Dr Yuan was successful because he kept working and did not give up. He also grew up in a poor family, so he was very motivated to succeed and help other farmers around China.
5. Yuan Longping thinks that a person with too musch money has more rather than fewer troubles. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
I mostly agree. I think being rich can cause a lot of problems, but it really depends on the life and attitude of the person who is rich. People who are rich certainly have different problems from people who are not.
6. Yuan Longping developed super hybrid rice to help Chinese farmers and hungry people around the world. Can you think of any other major development that would make a great difference to world hunger? Write out your idea and then compare it with your partner.
I think developing other hybrid grains would make a great difference in the problem of world hunger. Hybrid grains that can survive in very dry or very hot areas would be very useful in Africa and other areas. Hybrid grains that cannot easily be killed by insects and diseases would be useful around the world.
1. Choose one of these questions and
discuss in groups.
1) What advantages do you see in YuanLongping’s life?
2) What disadvantages do you see in Yuan Longping’s life?
Discuss in groups of four.
2. Discuss in groups.
Would you like to have a life like his? Why or why not?
Summary
Born into a _____ ______ family in 1930, Dr. Yuan __________ ____ Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. From ____ ___ finding ways to grow more rice has been his ____ ____. Because at that time ______ was a _________ problems in China. In 1974, he became the _____ __________ _______ in the world to grow rice that has a high _______. This special strain of rice makes it _________ to produce one-third _____ of the crop in the ____ _____. Now he _________ his knowledge in many other less ________ countries to increase their harvests. Thanks to his research, ______ around the world are now producing harvests twice ___ ______ ____ before.
poor
farmer’s
graduated from
then on,
possible
output
more
same fields
circulating
developed
farmer’s
as, large, as
life goal
hunger
disturbing
first agricultural pioneer
Homework
1. Read the passage
2. Finish Task4&跟踪练习on P17-18 ；长难句分析on P21-22
Resume
Name:
Nationality:
Date of birth:
appearance:
Education:
personality:
Achievements:
Dreams:
Hobbies:
Yuan Longping
Chinese
1930
Sunburnt, slim, strong
Southwest Agriculture College
Care little about money and fame
Super hybrid rice
Produce export
Violin, mah-jong, swimming,