必修四Unit2..pptVIP

Orange:Wheat(bread) Blue:Rice Green:Food made of flourWhite:potato,cotton It is said that there are 2.4 billion people who eat rice every day throughout the world. * What do you know about crop? wheat rice corn potatoes peanut tomatoes sorghum cotton ? Have you ever grow any crop? ? Do you know how to grow a crop? How do you think to grow our main food----rice? How do the farmers grow rice? ploughing(犁田) seeding (播种) grow some young plants insert the young plants into the field irrigating (灌溉) fertilizing (施肥) harvesting (收获) winnowing (扬谷) select the weeds plough the soil turn over the soil sow the seeds remove the weeds fertilize farming steps Agriculture in the past Agriculture in the modern times A poem Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray, Due to their toiling day. Sympathy for the Peasants By Li Shen Work hard by hoe at midday, Sweating the soil. Do you know that grains come from? It’s due to the hard work of the farmers Plough soil in the noon with the sweat drop in the land, who knows the food made of hard? What is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries? More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day ! Hunger n. 饥饿, 饥渴; 渴望 vi. 渴望; 渴求 If that happened, people might die of hunger. The whole world would get into trouble. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? Do something to help end hunger in the world!!! 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. 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 wo