同课异构-课堂创新教学设计（高中英语人教必修四）课件-Unit2-文本研读2.pptVIP

-*- * Unit 2 Working the land Reading Warming up 1. Have you ever grown any plants? If so, what did you do to grow them? How would you grow it? 2. Has anyone of you ever been to the countryside? What did you do there? Warming up 3. Who are from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming? Look at pictures and discuss What is the man doing in the field? Planting rice Look at pictures and discuss Here is another photo about farming. What is the man driving the tractor doing in the photo? Plowing the land Looking at pictures and discuss The woman farmer from Tibet is harvesting her vegetables not in the open field but in a plastic house. For generations, the people in Tibet Autonomous Region have farmed the land using traditional methods. But in recent years, things have begun to change. All the farmers admit the new way. What is the new way? Indoor harvesting Step 2. Pre-readingQuestion and answer Rice is the main food in South China. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? Then southerners would have to change their eating habit. They could turn to potatoes, wheat flour, cow and sheep cheese, cabbages, onions and garlic for food. All the food are the bases of the traditional food in North China. Step 2. Pre-readingQuestion and answer If you had the chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world, what would you do? I would try to end hunger by popularizing the advanced farming techniques. Modern techniques could be introduced to increase the rice output, and expand the area of fields. Discuss Professor Yuan Longping Background information about Yuan Longping Yuan Longping is a Chinese agricultural scientist. His scientific achievements led to the worlds first successful and widely- grown hybrid rice varieties, revolutionizing rice cultivation in China. Hybrid rice has since been grown in dozens of countries in Africa, America and Asia, providing food for tens of millions and leading to his becoming known as