英语必修4第二单元 Warming up and Reading.pptVIP

* * 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. 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 seeds plough the soil turn over the soil sow the seeds remove the weeds fertilize farming steps 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) 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 Father of Hybrid Rice Why does Yuan Longping want everyone to call him a farmer ? A Because his sunburnt face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like those of millions of other Chinese farmers. B Because he comes from countryside. C Because he thinks of himself as a farmer and he works the land to his research and in many ways, he is like a farmer. 2. 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. 3. Why did Dr Yuan want to increase