人教新课标高中英语必修四 Unit2 Working the land Warming up Pre reading and Reading (共26张PPT).ppt

Unit 2 working the land Warming ,Pre-reading and Reading Warming up 1.Have you ever been to the countryside? what did you do there? 2.Are you from a farmer’s family? what do you know about farming? plow the field grow some young plants insert the young plants into the field Spray the agricultural chemicals harvest rice Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray, Due to their toiling day. A poem by Li shen 联合国粮农组织称：饥饿每年夺去500万儿童生命 Look at the pictures below. did you know these facts before? What problem do they show? Pre-reading Discussion If tomorrow Discussion What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? Why could China feed 22%of the world’s people from just 7%of the farmland? Who plays such an important part in Chinese agriculture? Yuan Longping Father of Hybrid Rice What kind of rice does DrYuan grow? 2. What is the main idea of the passage? Super hybrid rice an agricultural pioneer named Yuan Longping who worked hard to produce a new strain of rice Match the following headings(标题)to each paragraph. A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE Para1 A. Dr Yuan’s dreams. Para2 B. Dr Yuan’s personality. Para3 C. Dr Yuan’s biography(传记). Para4 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement. Writing a poster(海报) for the text. Pairwork Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement. 1). Sunburnt face and arms, slim and strong body. 2). Grow hybrid rice. 3). The first agricultural pioneer. Para1 his appearance and achievement Q1: What does Dr Yuan look like? He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim, strong body.He is more like a farmer than a scientist. Q2: What is his achievement? He grows what is called super hybrid rice, which makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields. True or False: 1.Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist.