人教版高一英语必修4-Unit-2-Working-the-land-reading-课件(共21张).pptVIP

Words Expressions * Unit 2 Working the land Task 1: Brainstorming What will you think of when you see the word “agriculture”? agriculture farm irrigation food crop field plants plain GMF grain farmer fertilizer seed prairie countryside land arable land agriculture wheat corn rice soybean cotton broomcorn ?????????????????????????????? peanut Terrace Drought Irrigated land Greenhouse In the first picture: * Terraced fields. In the second picture: * Dry barren farmland. In the third picture: * Irrigated farmland. In the fourth picture: * Greenhouses. What are the differences? Compare the old and the modern ways of irrigation. Controlled Climate Natural Climate in bad weather, crops lost climate controlled, less damage The landscape loses its natural beauty. Only arable land can grow crops. Greenhouses can be built almost everywhere. The landscape is more beautiful. If there is a power failure, you may lose crops. What are genetically-modified foods? The term GM foods or GMOs (genetically-modified organisms) is most commonly used to refer to crop plants created for human or animal consumption using the latest molecular biology techniques. These plants have been modified in the laboratory to enhance desired traits such as increased resistance to herbicides or improved nutritional content very rapidly and with great accuracy. For example, plant geneticists can isolate a gene responsible for drought tolerance and insert that gene into a different plant. The new genetically-modified plant will gain drought tolerance as well. What are some of the advantages of GM foods? The world population has topped 6 billion people and is predicted to double in the next 50 years. Ensuring an adequate food supply for this booming population is going to be a major challenge in the years to come. GM foods promise to meet this need in a number of ways:1).Pest resistance 2).Disease resistance 3).Cold tolerance 4).Drought tolerance/salinity tolerance5).Nutrition Thirte