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1、Warming up & Reading,Enjoy a PoemBy Li Shen,Farmers weeding at noon,Sweat down the field soon.,Who knows food on a tray,Due to their toiling day.,Ploughing (犁田),seeding,fertilizing(施肥),irrigating (灌溉),transplanting 插秧,harvesting,winnowing (扬 谷),rice,What is the main food in all East Asian and Southe
2、ast Asian countries?,Rice. It is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice every day throughout the world.,Answer the following questions:,Pre-reading,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 pa
3、nic(惊慌). fight for food, even kill each other and the whole country would get into trouble.,If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do ?,How to solve hunger?,making good use of the waste land,developing the technology to,inventing a new kind of food,impr
4、oving the quality of the soil,preventing the pests from eating our crops,Father of Hybrid Rice,A Pioneer For All People,A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE,Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.,a farmer named Yuan Longping how Yuan Longping became rich and famousC. an agricultural pioneer nam
5、ed Yuan Longping who worked hard to produce a new strain of rice D. a new strain of rice which is called super hybrid rice,Which of the following statements tells the main idea of the text? It s about_ .,Find out the main idea of each paragraph.,Skimming,Careful Reading,Read the text and fill in the
6、 blanks.,Yuan LongpingAppearance His_ face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like Chinese farmers.,sunburnt,Achievements In 1974, he became the first _ in the world to grow high output rice. Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the _ to rid the world of hunger.,battle,agricultu
7、ral pioneer,a. He was born into a poor farmers family .b. He graduated from Southwest Agriculture college.c. In 1950,Chinese farmers produced fifty million tons of rice.d. 200 million tons of rice was produced by growing his hybrid rice. e. He searched a way to increase rice outputs without expandin
8、g the area of fields.f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries.,Put the events in right order.,a,c,b,e,d,f,Main events In 1930, he was born into a poor farmers family. He _ from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Since 1953, finding ways to gro
9、w more rice has been his _. He is now _ his knowledge in India, Vietnam and many other less developed countries.,circulating,graduated,life goal,Personalities He is quite _ with his life but doesnt_ being famous. He has many hobbies such as listening to violin music, _, swimming and _. He believes t
10、hat a person with too much money has more _ fewer troubles.,rather than,satisfied,care about,playing mah-jong,reading,_ To produce a kind of rice that could _ more people. To _his rice so that it can be grown around the globe.,export,Dreams,feed,1. Yuan Longping became the first agricultural pioneer
11、 in the world to grow super hybrid rice at the age of 40.2. More than 60% of the rice in the world is from 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):,F,F,T,1. Dr Yuan wanted to increase the
12、rice output because he saw many people go hungry when he was young.,Suggested answers to Exercise 3 (P11),Post reading,Homework,Writing a poster(海报) for the text.,Resume,Name:Nationality:Date of birth:appearance:Education:personality:Achievements:Dreams:Hobbies:,Yuan LongpingChinese1930Sunburnt, slim, strongSouthwest Agriculture CollegeCare little about money and fameSuper hybrid riceProduce export Violin, mah-jong, swimming,Thank you,