人教必修4 Unit2 Working the landA pioneer for all people概要1.pptVIP

Parag3 Which of the following description about Dr Yuan’s personality（个性） is not true? He is satisfied with his life because he is now rich and famous. B. He cares little about money and fame（名声）. C. He would rather work than lead a comfortable life. D. He enjoys a simpler life than most rich  and famous people. Para4 1.What does “Wishing for things, however, costs nothing.” mean? 2.What did Dr Yuan’s rice look like in his dream? 3.Dr Yuan has dreams not only when he is _____ but also when he is______. * * Unit 2 Working the land What are doing? They are planting the rice. Have you ever grown any plants? If so, what did you do to grow them? First we ploughed the soil deep. Second we put the seeds into the tunnel. Finally we covered the deeds by ploughing again. They are ploughing the soil. Warming up Q1. Rice is a main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? If that happened, people there would suffer from starvation. And the whole country would get into trouble. International Facts on Hungerand Poverty(2002) every eight seconds, a child somewhere in the world dies from starvation. More than 6 million children under the age of 5 die from starvation every year. More than 800 million people in the world suffer from chronic malnutrition–-- 799 million of them are from the developing world. More than 153 million of them are under the age of 5. Some 700,000 central Americans are suffering from hunger today, including 6,000 children at risk of starving to death. The African countries suffering most severely from food shortage are Malawi, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.  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. B