Working the Land Unit 2 Warming up and reading 莆田第十中学 英语组 陈雪静

1. Have you ever been to the countryside? 2. Do you know how to work on a farm? Step 1: warming up Let’s go to the farm!

First, buy or select the seeds from the store.

Second, we need to plough or turn over the soil.

Third, we sow the seeds in the soil.

Finally, we can harvest our grain/sorghum/peanuts.

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.

In order to improve the output of the crop, we need to rid the soil of the weed, water the crop, fertilize the soil and kill off the pest. water the crop rid the soil of the weed fertilize the soilkill off the pest to improve the output of the crop

Para1 A. Dr Yuan’s dreams. Para2 B. Dr Yuan’s personality. Para3 C. Dr Yuan’s biography. Para4 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement. Match the following main ideas with the right paragraphs.

Para. 1 Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement Task 2 Careful reading Q1: 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. Q2: What is his achievement? He grows what is called super hybrid rice, which makes it possible to produce 20 percent more of the crop in the same fields. Appearance Achievement

Personal Information Name: Nationality: Born: Age: Occupation: Education: Dream: Yuan Longping Chinese in scientist/farmer Southwest Agricultural College, in 1953 To export his hybrid rice so that it can be grown around the globe Para 2

Para. 2 His biography Timeinformation As a young man In a recent harvest now He was born. Graduated from college Saw the great need for increasing the rice output. 200 million tons was produced Circulating his knowledge

a. He was born into a poor farmer’s 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 expanding the area of fields. f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries. Put the Dr Yuan’s biography in right order. a cbedf

Paragraph 3 Topic sentence? Dr Yuan is quite satisfied with his life. He doesn’t care about ______. He likes freedom for his search and hobbies. being famous Personality

Hobbies: listening to violin music reading playing mah-jong swimming

Paragraph 4 Topic sentence? Just dreaming for things, however, costs nothing. dreams

Para 4: his dreams His first dream His second dream ▲ (rice plants) As tall as sorghum ▲ ( each ear) As big as an ear of corn ▲ (each grain) As huge as a peanut To export his rice so that it can be grown all over the world

Discussion If you had the chance to do something to rid the world of hunger, what would you do ?

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. … etc.

Homework 1. Review new words and useful expressions of the text. 2. P12