Warming up & Reading
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
plow the field
grow some young plants
insert the young plants into the field
harvest
rice
Pre-reading ( 4ms )
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?
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
1.When and who did become the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output?
2. What did Yuan Longping invent?
In 1974,Yuan Longping
Hybrid rice
Task 1 Skimming
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。
袁隆平，男，１９３０年９月出生于北京，１９５３年毕业于西南农学院农学系。毕业后，一直从事农业教育及杂交水稻研究。
在中国人民正闹饥荒的20世纪60年代，袁隆平提出了杂交水稻的概念，这种新型水稻具有高产量的特点。10年后，他研制成功了一种产量比一般水稻高出20%的新型水稻。
　　袁隆平一生献身于农业研究，先后受到联合国教科文组织、粮农组织的称誉。袁隆平虽已年届７０岁，仍然一如既往地从事农业研究。
袁隆平人物简历
hybrid rice;
System of Production Responsibility;
institute;
suffer the famine;
yield;
UNESCO, FAO.
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
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.
Dr Yuan’s biography
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
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:
Born:
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
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.
The following sentences are taken from the reading passage. Explain what the underlined words mean.
He wants everyone to call him a farmer, for that’s how he regards himself.
Key: It means he thinks of himself as a farmer but other people may think of him as a famous scientist or a rich man.
Post reading
2. In many ways, he is one of them, and he has struggled for the past five decades to help them.
Key: It means he does not only look like a farmer but also he works in the fields with farmers. In fact, he does scientific research for them.
3. At that time, hunger was a serious problem in many parts of the countryside.
Key: It means that many people were very hungry and they even became ill and died because there was not enough food.
4. Using his hybrid rice farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before.
Key: It means that farmers growing his rice species are producing rice twice as much as they did in the past.
5. Wishing for thongs, however, cost nothing.
Key: It means that dreams are free and everybody can have ideas about what they would like their future life to be.
Discussion
What is happening to these people?
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(肥料)to give rice enough nutrition.
Stop the pollution to the environment and protect the soil in the field.
… etc.