Enjoy a Enjoy a Poem By Li Shen Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray, Due to their toiling day.

Do you know these grains ( 谷物 )? wheat rice sorghum 高粱

corn cotton peanut soybean 大豆

Are you from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming?

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?

select the weeds plough the soil turn over the soil sow the seeds remove the weeds fertilize farming steps

Farming sowing ploughing irrigating ( 灌溉 ) crops weather &climate rice transplanting ( 插秧 ) When we speak of farming, what words can we think of?

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 Southeast 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:

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.

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… improving the quality of the soil preventing the pests from eating our crops

What do you predict this passage is going to talk about?

Father of Hybrid Rice

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 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 )

Super Hybrid Rice the rice that has a high output

What kind of person do you think Dr Yuan Longping is? happy sadnervous shyprouddreaming

Find out the main idea of each paragraph.

Para 1 A. Dr Yuan’s dreams. Para 2 B. Dr Yuan’s personality. Para 3 C. Dr Yuan’s biography. Para 4 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement. A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.

The text is about _______________ who made a great contribution to producing better _____. Yuan Longping rice

Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks. Yuan Longping Appearance  _________ face and arms slim and strong body sunburnt

_________________  developed super hybrid rice  became the first __________________ in the world to grow high output rice  helps the UN reduce _______ in the world agricultural pioneer Achievements hunger

Experiences  born in 1930 and _________ from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953  finding ways to grow more rice has been his life _____  to _________ his knowledge in less developed countries such as India and Vietnam circulate graduated goal

Personalities  is satisfied with his life  doesn’t care about being famous  gives a large amount of money to help others to do their ________ in agriculture  has many dreams and never gives up  loves and ________ his people research care for

 to produce a kind of rice that could _____ more people  to _______ his rice so that it can be grown around the globe ________ feed Dreams export

1. Yuan Longping became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow super hybrid rice at the age of 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 True (T) or False (F): F F T

Choose the best answers. 1. What does the word “battle” refer to in the second paragraph? A. The low rice output. B. Ridding the world of hunger. C. Fighting against farming. D. The freedom to do research.

2. From the passage, we can know ______. A. Yuan Longping is not a pioneer but a scientist in the research of the hybrid rice B. Yuan’s parents are both agricultural scientists C. more than 60% of the rice produced in the world is from the hybrid strain D. using the hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before

3. It can be inferred from the text that ______. A. Yuan knew the importance of rice import B. Yuan is interested in playing the violin C. Yuan is proud of his achievements D. Yuan’s rice are grown in many countries

Even if Dr.Yuan’s dreams come true, can this really solve starvation?

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 young. Answer these questions based on your understanding of the passage.

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 agriculture 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.

3. How would you describe Yuan Longping’s personality? Because of his work with developing hybrid rice, it seems that Yuan Longping must be a very patient and careful man. He didn’t 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.

4. Yuan Longping was able to develop a successful agricultural product when thousands of other farmers could not. What do you think is the main reason for his success? I think Yuan Longping was successful because he kept working and did not give up. He was also very motivated to succeed and help other farmers around China.

5. Yuan Longping thinks that a person with too much 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 who are not.

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.

I think developing 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.

1. Choose one of these questions and discuss in groups. 1) What advantages do you see in Yuan Longping’s life? 2) What disadvantages do you see in Yuan Longping’s life?

2. Discuss in groups. Would you like to have a life like his? Why or why not?

Writing a poster ( 海报 ) for the text.

Resume Name: Nationality: Date of birth: appearance: Education: personality: Achievements: Dreams: Hobbies: Yuan Longping Chinese 1930 sunburnt, slim, strong Southwest Agriculture College care little about money and fame super hybrid rice produce export violin, mah-jong, swimming