1. Unit 2
Working The Land

2. A pioneer for all people
What information can you learn from the title and the picture? ?
Reading:
A pioneer for all people
=a person who is the first to study a new area of knowledge

3. Information Card (Skimming)
In which paragraphs is the information mentioned?
Yuan Longping
Name:____________
Nationality:__________
Age:_________________
Occupation:___________
Appearance:__________
Education:____________
Hobbies:__________
Dreams:_____________
Chinese
(para2) 84
scientist
(para1)
He has Chinese nationality
(para1)
Face and arms:
sunburn
body:
like a farmer
strong and slim

4. Why is he sunburn like a farmer?
What has he been busy with these years?(Para1)
He has struggled in the field for the past five decades.
He grows super hybrid rice
The policeman struggled with the thief in the street.
I’m struggling to finish the food you gave me.

5. Information Card (Skimming)
In which paragraphs is the information mentioned?
Name:____________
Nationality:__________
Age:_________________
Occupation:___________
Appearance:__________
Education:____________
Hobbies:__________
Dreams:_____________
Yuan Longping
Chinese
(para2) 84
scientist
(para1)
farmer
(para1)
graduated from Southwest Agricultural College
like a farmer
Face and arms:
sunburn
listening to violin…
body:
strong and slim

6. to produce a kind of rice that could feed more people
Para4 Dreams
Para4
the first dream
as tall as sorghum
rice plants
rice ear
rice grain
as big as a corn
as huge as a peanut
to produce a kind of rice that could feed more people
the second dream:
To export his rice so that it can be grown around the globe.

7. Yuan Longping makes great contributions to China
His achievement and contribution
super hybrid rice
(para1&2)
Find out what the following numbers refer to.
20% more of the crop.
20%;
Yuan Longping makes great contributions to China
more than 60% of the rice produced in china each year.
60%;
56 million;
56 million tons of rice
200 million
200 million tons of rice
20% of the world’s people
22%;
7% of the farmland 7%

8. His achievement and contribution
super hybrid rice
(para1&2)
…” Yuan Long Ping is now circulating his knowledge in …. Thanks to his research,The UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger”(L21-23)
What does tools refer to?
What can you infer from the sentences?

9. Para4
Para3
1. Which of the following description about Dr Yuan is not true?
A. He is satisfied with his life because
he is now rich and famous.
B. He cares little about fame and money.
C. He would rather work than lead a
comfortable life.
D. He enjoys a simpler life than most
rich and famous people.
He feels it gives him less freedom to do his research.
He therefore gives millions of yuan to equip others for their research in agriculture.

10. A pioneer for all people
Discussion
What makes Yuan Longping ?
A pioneer for all people