高一英语working-the-land课程11.pptVIP

Unit 2 Working the land Unit 2 Working the land Warming up and reading1 Have you ever been to the countryside? what did you do there? Warming up – I ( 5ms ) Answer the following questions: Farming Are you from a farmer’s family? what do you know about farming? soil ploughing crops weather climate Irrigating(灌溉) …… Agriculture in the past Agriculture in the modern times Pre-reading ( 4ms ) Answer the following questions: What is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries? Rice. It is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice every day throughout the world. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? If that happened, people there would suffer from starvation. People would be panic(惊慌) and the whole country would get into trouble. 袁隆平被誉为中国的“杂交水稻之父”. 中国农民说，吃饭靠“两平”，一靠邓小平----制定了生产承包责任制的政策，二靠袁隆平----发明了杂交稻。 袁隆平，男，１９３０年９月出生于北京，１９５３年毕业于西南农学院农学系。毕业后，一直从事农业教育及杂交水稻研究。 在中国人民正闹饥荒的20世纪60年代，袁隆平提出了杂交水稻的概念，这种新型水稻具有高产量的特点。10年后，他研制成功了一种产量比一般水稻高出20%的新型水稻。 　　袁隆平一生献身于农业研究，先后受到联合国教科文组织、粮农组织的称誉。袁隆平虽已年届７０岁，仍然一如既往地从事农业研究。 袁隆平人物简历 hybrid rice; System of Production Responsibility; institute; suffer the famine; Yield; UNESCO, FAO. 1.What does Dr Yuan look like? 2.What’s his achievement? 3.What do you think of him?  Listen to the tape and answer the following questions: 1.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. 2.What’s 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. Using his hybrid rice farmers’ producing harvests twice as large as before. 3.What do you think of him? He doesn’t like money because he gives millions of yuan to equip others for their research in agriculture. He doesn’t like fame too though he has made great contributions to the world. He’s really respectable. Why did Dr Yuan want to increase the rice ou