Transcript Unit 2 Working the land Period 1&2: 幻灯片9-40页 策划：《学生双语报》 1

Unit 2 Working the land
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Period 1&2: 幻灯片9-40页
Warming up – I ( 5ms )
Answer the following questions:
Have you ever been to the countryside? what
could you see?
plow the field
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grow some young plants
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insert the young plants into the field
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harvest
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Are you from a farmer’s family? what is
important for farming?
ploughing
soil
crops
Farming
weather
&climate
……
Irrigating
(灌溉)
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Agriculture in
the past
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Agriculture in the
modern times
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90%
80%
70%
Agriculture
has been
greatly
developed
nowadays.
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Grain Cotton
Oil
Sugar
Meat
Fish
Fruit
Growth of major farm products1991-95
compared with
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1986-90 percentages.
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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.
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What do you think would
happen if tomorrow there was
suddenly no rice to eat?
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袁隆平
father of hybrid rice
Watch the video
1.What does Dr Yuan look like?
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Fast reading ( 5ms )
Read the text fast and answer the
following questions:
1.What’s his achievement?
2.What do you think of him?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Second reading ( 8ms )
Second
Reading
Read the text again and answer the following questions:
1. Why did Dr Yuan want to increase the rice
output when he was young?
2. How does he help rid the world of hunger?
3. What kind of life is Dr Yuan leading?
4. Use a few words to describe Dr Yuan’s
personality.
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1. Why did Dr Yuan want to increase the rice
output when he was young?
Dr Yuan wanted to increase the rice output
because he saw many people go hungry when
he was young.
2. How does he help rid the world of hunger?
He helps the world get rid of hunger by
producing a hybrid strain of rice which
increase the harvest.
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3. What kind of life is Dr Yuan leading?
Dr Yuan is leading a simple life, doing his
research, listening to his music and riding
his motor-bike.
4. Use a few words to describe Dr Yuan’s
personality.
Dr Yuan is a simple, academic man who is more
interested in helping others than being famous.
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Discussion ( 8ms )
Do you want to end the famine(饥荒)in the
world ?If you had the chance to do something
to help end hunger in the world, what would
you do ?
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The measures taken to deal
with hunger
Invent a new kind of plant to produce
more food.
Find a sort of fertilizer(肥料)to give
rice enough nutrition.
Stop the pollution to the environment
and protect the soil in the field.
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