广东地区高一英语unit2 working the land warmingup and reading课件 新课标 必修4

1、First, the farmers plow the field. They have to make the soil loose enough to plant crops.What are they doing?Second, they grow some young plants.Third, they insert the young plants into the loose field.What a big harvest!Agriculture in the pastAgriculture in the modern timesGrowth of major farm pro

2、ducts1991-95 compared with 1986-90 percentages.Agriculture has been greatly developed nowadays.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 t

3、he 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.How to solve hunger? making good use of the waste land developing the technology

4、to inventing a new kind of foodimproving the quality of the soil preventing the pests from eating our cropsThe measures taken to deal with hungerInvent 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 protec

5、t the soil in the field.Unit 2 Working the landReading A Pioneer For All People罗远芬 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，年月出生于北京，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

6、组织、粮农组织的称誉。袁隆平虽已年届岁，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.Predicting:From the title, what do you think the text is about?A Pioneer For All PeopleScanning: Scan the text, try to find out some information of the hero.Name _Ag

7、e _Job _Education _Achievement _Hobbies _Yuan Longping74 agriculture scientist inventing hybrid rice violin music, mah-jong, swimming, reading college graduate, a doctor Skimming: find out the main idea of each paragraph.ParagraphMain Idea1His _2His _3His _4His _ appearance and achievements birth, e

8、ducation and research noble personality dreams1.What does Dr Yuan look like?2.Whats his achievement?3.What do you think of him?Fast reading ( 5ms ) Read the text fast 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

9、like a farmer than a scientist.2.Whats 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 doesnt like mone

10、y because he gives millions of yuan to equip others for their research in agriculture. He doesnt like fame too though he has made great contributions to the world. Hes really respectable.father of hybrid riceA pioneer for all peopleHe wants everyone to call him a farmer.His biography.His personality

11、. His dreams.Large headingsHe wants everyone to call him a farmer.His biography.His personality. His dreams.He wants everyone to call him a farmer.A scientist works the land.Sunburnt face and arms, slim ,strong body.Grow hybrid rice.The first agricultural pioneer.Large headingsHe wants everyone to c

12、all him a farmer.His biography.His personality. His dreams.His biography.In 1931, he was born.In 1953, he graduated and devoted his life to finding ways to grow rice.Last year,twenty billion tons of rice was produced. Now, Dr Yuan is circulating his kownledge.Large headingsHe wants everyone to call

13、him a farmer.His biography.His personality.His dreams.His personalityHe is satisfied with his life.Why is he satisfied with his life?Because he doesnt like money and fame.His dreamsHis biography.His personality.His dreams.He wants everyone to call him a farmer.The first dream.The second dream.Lets l

14、earn the language points in Unit 2 together. Are you ready? Go!Language points for Reading I1.Dr Yuan grows what is called super hybrid rice.袁博士种植了被人称作超级杂交水稻的稻谷。e.g. I dont quite understand what you are explaining. Please watch what I am doing carefully.What =the thing(s) that_the emperor saw was qu

15、ite different from_ the old minister told him.A. What, that B. That, whatC. Which, that D. All, all 2. It is pretty well understood _controls the flow of carbon dioxide in and out the atmosphere today.A. that B. when C. what D. how 2. This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce one-thir

16、d more of the crop in the same fields.这种特殊的稻种使得同样的田地多收获三分之一的产量。it 在句中作形式宾语，真正的宾语为to produce, 结构为：动词（make, feel, think, regard）+it +adj+ to do.e.g. We think it important to learn English well.3.Born in a poor farmers family in 1931,Dr. Yuan graduate from Southwest Agriculture College in 1953. 袁博士1931

17、年出身于一个贫苦农民的家庭，1953年毕业于西南农学院。 graduate n. a person who has completed a university degree course. 毕业生undergraduate 本科毕业生post-graduate 硕士毕业生，研究生graduate vi. complete an educational course. 常跟介词from，表示“毕业于”graduation n. 毕业e.g. After his graduation from college, he went to work as an engineer in a compan

18、y.=After he graduated from college, he went to work as an engineer in a company.Supplement :bachelors degree 学士学位masters degree 硕士学位doctors degree 博士学位4.Since then, he has devoted his life to finding ways to grow more and more rice. 从那以后，他就把毕生精力投入到水稻高产的研究中。devote oneself to+ n/doing 献身于，致力于注意：to 为介词

19、，后面接v-ing.类似的短语还有look forward to, listen to, get to, reply to, apologize to, belong to, agree to等等. 5. Dr Yuan searched for a way to increase rice harvest without expanding the area of fields.袁博士寻求一种在不扩大种植面积的情况下提高水稻产量的方法。注意：search强调搜查，一般表示目标明确范围较小。search sb 搜身；search spl 搜查某地search for 强调寻找，一般表示范围较大

20、。search for sb 寻找某人e.g. The police searched the woods for the lost child.警察在树林里寻找失踪的小孩。Scientists are still searching for a cure to the common cold.科学家们仍然在寻找普通感冒的治疗方法。search/search for/in search of1.The officer went up _the murder.2.The thieves are _the hidden treasure in the museum.3.Birds fly to t

21、he south _the winter sunshine.to search searching for in search of6.Thanks to his research, the UN is trying to rid the world of hunger.由于他的研究，联合国正在努力清除世界饥饿。thanks to=because of ;owing to e.g._, we won the game.由于你的支持，我们赢得了比赛。Thanks to your support7.Using his hybrid rice farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before.用他的杂交水稻种子，农民们种出比以前多一倍的粮食。倍数词（twice/half/three times/a quarter etc.）+as + 形容词原级 +as 表示“是的多少倍e.g. The number of the students in our school is _ in their sc