（长期营养不良）课件.ppt

International Facts on Hunger and Poverty(贫穷) 2. If you had the chance to help end hunger in the world, what would you do? Homework Pronounce the new words of this unit correctly Getting ready for the reading passage --a pioneer for all people * * * Unit 2 Working the Land Warming Up What are the family doing? Poem By Li Shen Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray, Due to their toiling day. Warming Up Questions: 1. 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? 2. Have you ever been to the countryside? What did you do there? 3. Are you from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming? Growing Rice terraced fields Pre-reading and talking Questions: 1. 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? Tips: It is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice every day throughout the world；suffer from starvation/die of hunger; panic, get into trouble 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(长期营养不良)—799 million of them are from the developing world. More than 153 million of them are under the age of 5. Some700,000 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. 3. Do you know who Yuan Longping is ? Reading 袁隆平 A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE A brief introduction: Yuan Longping is known as China’s “father of hybrid rice”. It’s said that in China, we eat depending on “Two Ping” ---- Deng Xiaoping, who made the policy of System of Production Responsibility, Yu