人教版高中英语必修四U2working the land P1 Warming up 课件（共41张） .pptVIP

Today our world houses more than 6.5 billion people. Worldwide,?more than 1 billion people currently live below the international poverty line, earning less than $1 per day. 854 million people across the world are suffering from hunger, up from 852 million a year ago. Six million children under the age of 5 die every year as a result of hunger. Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger. One child every five seconds.? Hunger If you had the chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world, what would you do? I would invent a new kind of plant to produce more food. I’ll make a kind of fertilizer to give rice enough nutrition and let them grow quickly and have high product. 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. 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. A Chinese farmer is helping the hungry people. Who is he? Yuan Longping -- Father of Hybrid Rice Father of Hybrid Rice Do you know anything about him? He is father of hybrid rice, who was awarded “the Nobel Prize of Asia”. He received the honor for his great contributions to hybrid rice research and work he did to improve rice production in developing countries. He is called a pioneer for all people. Dr Yuan Longping (袁隆平博士） the rice that has a high output Super Hybrid Rice hybrid cotton hybrid pear super hybrid rice hybrid pepper hybrid eggplant hybrid corn Homework Look up the new words and expressions of the reading in the dictionary. 2. Preview the reading: A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE * Working the land Unit 2 statistic n. (常用pl statistics) 数据； 统计；统计数字； 统计资料 Words preview Enjoy a poem By Li Shen Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray, Due to their toiling day.