必修四unit2Reading.pptVIP

Unit 2 Working on the land * * Warming up : 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. Do you know these grains (谷物)? wheat rice sorghum 高粱 corn cotton peanut soybean Are you from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming? Ploughing (犁田) Have you ever grown any plants? If so, what did you do to grown them? If not, what kind of plant would you like to try growing? How would you grow it? 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: 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? 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. 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”。