unitworkingthelandReadingPPT课件

1、Do you know these grains (谷物)?wheat rice sorghum高粱第1页/共52页corncottonbroomcornpeanutsoybean第2页/共52页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?第3页/共52页select the weeds plough the soil turn over the soil sow

2、 the seeds remove the weeds fertilize farming steps第4页/共52页Do you still remember the advices that Jia Sixie gave on farming?第5页/共52页Farming sowingploughing irrigating (灌溉)cropsweather &climaterice transplanting (插秧)When we speak of farming, what words can we think of?第6页/共52页Ploughing (犁田犁田) som

3、e more expressions第7页/共52页seedingfertilizing(施肥施肥)第8页/共52页irrigating (灌溉灌溉)transplanting 插秧插秧第9页/共52页harvestingwinnowing (扬谷扬谷)第10页/共52页rice第11页/共52页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 througho

4、ut the world. Answer the following questions:第12页/共52页What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? suffer from starvation and starve to death. feel scared / be panic (惊慌). fight for food, even kill each other and the whole country would get into trouble.第13页/共52页If y

5、ou had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do?第14页/共52页How to solve hunger?making good use of the waste landdeveloping the technology to inventing a new kind of foodimproving the quality of the soil preventing the pests from eating our crops第15页/共52页What do you

6、 predict this What do you predict this passage is going to talk passage is going to talk about? about? 第16页/共52页Father of Hybrid Rice第17页/共52页 He is father of hybrid rice (杂交水稻), who was lately awarded “the Nobel Prize of Asia ”. He received the honor for his great contributions (贡献) to hybrid rice

7、research and work he did to improve rice production in developing countries. Now he is head of the National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center in Hunan Province, China (中国湖南省国家杂交水稻研究与发展中心). He is called a pioneer for all people. Dr Yuan Longping (袁隆平博士)第18页/共52页 他是一位真正的耕耘者。当他还是一个乡村教师的时候，已经具

8、有颠覆世界权威的胆识；当他名满天下的时候，却仍然只是专注于田畴。淡薄名利，一介农夫，播撒智慧，收获富足。他毕生的梦想，就是让所有人远离饥饿。喜看稻菽千重浪，最是风流袁隆平！ - 袁隆平在2004感动中国中的颁奖词第19页/共52页 他在接受“感动中国”栏目组采访时说：“这不是我个人的荣誉，而是国家的荣誉，全国人民的荣誉”。 袁隆平：“我感到最愉快的是一个出新成果，能够在名分上得到安慰的，有所寄托的要出新成果，我不停留在原有的这个成绩的基础上，我相信我们古人讲的话，“谋事在人，成事在天”。第20页/共52页 今天中国水稻种植面积中，约有一半是采用袁隆平培育的杂交产品，每年生产的稻谷可以多养活60

9、00多万人。2004年，袁隆平领导的超级杂交稻项目不断取得重大突破，在育种方面提前一年实现了大面积亩产超过800公斤的目标，这意味着每年又可以多养活7500万人。第21页/共52页第22页/共52页第23页/共52页 What kind of person do you think Dr Yuan Longping is?happy sad nervous shy prouddreaming第24页/共52页homework checking task 2 task 3第25页/共52页Find out the main idea of each paragraph.第26页/共52页 Par

10、a 1 A. Dr Yuans dreams. Para 2 B. Dr Yuans personality. Para 3 C. Dr Yuans biography. Para 4 D. Dr Yuans appearance and his achievement.A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLEMatch the following headings with the right paragraphs.第27页/共52页The text is about _ who made a great contribution to producing better _.Yuan

11、 Longpingrice 第28页/共52页Para.1: Appearance & AchievementQ1: 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.第29页/共52页What is his achievement?He grows what is called super hybrid rice, which makes it possible to produc

12、e one-third more of the crop in the same fields.第30页/共52页Para.2: Put Dr Yuans life experience in right order.Keys: a c b e d fa. He was born into a poor farmers family .b. He graduated from Southwest Agricultural college.c. In 1950, Chinese farmers produced 50 million tons of rice.d. 200 million ton

13、s of rice was produced by growing his hybrid rice. e. He searched a way to increase rice harvests without expanding the area of fields.f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries.第31页/共52页Para.3: Personality & HobbiesWhich of the following descrip

14、tion about Dr Yuans personality is not true?A. He is satisfied with his life because he is now rich and famous.B. He cares little about money and fame.C. He would rather work than lead a comfortable life.D. He enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people.A第32页/共52页The first dream: The seco

15、nd dream: Produce a kind of rice that could feed more peoplePara.4: DreamsTo export his rice so that it can be grown around the globe.第33页/共52页1. Yuan Longping became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow super hybrid rice at the age of 40.2. More than 60% of the rice in the world is f

16、rom the hybrid strain.3. According to the text, farmers in China are producing rice harvests nearly 4 times as large as that in 1950.True (T) or False (F):FFT第34页/共52页Read the text carefully and choose the best answers.1. What does the word “battle” refer to in the second paragraph?A. The low rice o

17、utput.B. Ridding the world of hunger.C. Fighting against farming.D. The freedom to do research.第35页/共52页2. From the passage, we can know _.A. Yuan Longping is not a pioneer but a scientist in the research of the hybrid riceB. Yuans parents are both agricultural scientistsC. more than 60% of the rice

18、 produced in the world is from the hybrid strainD. using the hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before 第36页/共52页3. It can be inferred from the text that _.A. Yuan knew the importance of rice importB. Yuan is interested in playing the violin C. Yuan is proud of his achievem

19、entsD. Yuans rice are grown in many countries 第37页/共52页Even if Dr.Yuans dreams come true, can this really solve starvation?第38页/共52页1. Why did Yuan Longping 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

20、 young.Answer these questions based on your understanding of the passage.第39页/共52页2. Is Yuan Longping more of a scientist or more of a farmer? Do you think he is a businessman? Give your reasons. I think he is more of a scientist. His main purpose is not to make a profit for himself but to study agr

21、iculture and use that knowledge to improve farming for farmers everywhere. I do not think he is a businessman, because his goal is not to make money.第40页/共52页3. How would you describe Yuan Longpings personality? Because of his work with developing hybrid rice, it seems that Dr Yuan must be a very pa

22、tient and careful man. He didnt give up but kept working on his project. He Also seems to be a very kind man, who cares for others. He wants to use his invention to help hungry people around the world.第41页/共52页4. Yuan Longping was able to develop a successful agricultural product when thousands of o

23、ther farmers could not. What do you think is the main reason for his success? I think Dr Yuan was successful because he kept working and did not give up. He also grew up in a poor family, so he was very motivated to succeed and help other farmers around China. 第42页/共52页5. Yuan Longping thinks that a

24、 person with too musch money has more rather than fewer troubles. Do you agree or disagree? Why? I mostly agree. I think being rich can cause a lot of problems, but it really depends on the life and attitude of the person who is rich. People who are rich certainly have different problems from people

25、 who are not.第43页/共52页6. Yuan Longping developed super hybrid rice to help Chinese farmers and hungry people around the world. Can you think of any other major development that would make a great difference to world hunger? Write out your idea and then compare it with your partner.第44页/共52页I think d

26、eveloping other hybrid grains would make a great difference in the problem of world hunger. Hybrid grains that can survive in very dry or very hot areas would be very useful in Africa and other areas. Hybrid grains that cannot easily be killed by insects and diseases would be useful around the world

27、.第45页/共52页1. Choose one of these questions and discuss in groups. 1) What advantages do you see in YuanLongpings life? 2) What disadvantages do you see in Yuan Longpings life? 第46页/共52页2. Discuss in groups. Would you like to have a life like his? Why or why not? 第47页/共52页Summary Born into a _ _ family in 1930, Dr. Yuan _ _ Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. From _ _ finding ways to grow more rice has been his _ _. Because at tha