人教版高中英语必修四课件Unit 2 Workbook lisening%26reading(共54张PPT).ppt

Unit 2 Working the land Workbook Listening on page 48 Do you remember the poem? 天苍苍, 野茫茫, 风吹草低见牛羊。 1 What makes the world’s desert grow? First tick the causes you think are true. Then listen to the tape and tick what you hear. 4. Using new scientific farming methods. 5. Wasting water in farms and at home. 6. Farming too much on poor land. 2 Listen to the tape again and choose the best answer to each question on page 48. Listening text Why do we have deserts today? Deserts have not always been here. Most deserts that we have today were once green lands full of the plant life. One of today’s biggest deserts is in North Africa. However, in the 1st century BC farms in the North Africa grew corn and wheat to make bread for the whole city of Rome. How did this area become desert? Both weather and people can help from a desert. Hot weather or very little rain makes the land so dry that nothing can grow. If people cut down or burn trees and plants to make land clear for farming, the wind can blow the soil away and turn the dry land into sand. Another big problem is farming on land that is not very good. This poor land can very quickly turn into desert, if it is farmed too much. One of the biggest causes, however, is when people take their animals to the same fields to feed over and over, and the fields finally lose all their nutrition. Because of these problems, deserts are slowly taking over green land in many parts of the world, including China. On Xinjiang, farmer used only half of his fields to grow the same amount of crops as last year. On the other half of his land, he planted fruit trees. The work of people like this is helping to fight the world’s growing deserts. 总结了6世纪以前中原地区的农业生产经验。《齐民要术》全书10卷,92篇,分别论述了各种农作物、蔬菜、果树、竹木的栽培,以及家禽家畜的饲养，农副产品加工等。尤为可贵的是,书中还记写了干旱地区的耕作、果树的嫁接等, 反映了北朝时期农业生产的发展情况。 1. What made Jia Sixie become interested in improving Chinese farming? He saw how some farms produced good crops