1. Unit 2 Working the land period one

2. Lead-in What did you have for lunch today?

3. Do you know how the ready-to-eat rice comes into the form that we have on the table everyday? Can you give us the process? Working the land

4. ploughing （犁田） seeding fertilizing ( 施肥 ) irrigating ( 灌溉 ) transplanting ( 插秧 ) harvesting winnowing ( 扬 谷 )… hulling ( 去壳 )

5. Can you imagine what would happen if there was suddenly no rice to eat tomorrow? If that happened, people might die of hunger. The whole world would get into trouble.

6. Reading A pioneer for all people. If you are asked to write an article to introduce Dr Yuan. What aspects can you write about ? Yuan Longping

7. Words and expressions sunburnt rid…of expand circulate struggle export satisfied with equip crops thanks to to become larger in size, number or amount plants grown in large amounts by farmers to send things to foreign countries for sale to make something or somebody free of pleased by having what one wants or needs because of brown skin from spending too much time in the sun to try extremely hard to achieve something to make information and ideas known to many people to provide with things necessary for a certain purpose

8. Fast reading Quickly go through the text and use one word to summarize each paragraph. Para 1 Para 2 Para 3 Para 4 achievement biography personality dreams

9. Careful reading Listen to paragraph 1 and fill in the following blanks about Dr. Yuan’s personal information. nationality: appearance: achievement: occupation: Chinese sunburnt faces and arms, slim and strong body scientists/farmer He grows super hybrid rice. He became the first agricultural pioneer.

10. Para 2 Find out the information that the following time and numbers refer to. 1930: 1953: 1950: 22%:7% now: As a young man: Ask and answer

11. Para 3-4 Dr. Yuan is an ordinary person? Dr. Yuan is an extraordinary person? Please find the facts to support that.

12. Activity Press conference A press conference is a media event in which many journalists and a speaker are invited to ask and answer questions. Now, we will hold a press conference in which Dr. Yuan will be the speaker and he will answer the questions about his life experiences, work achievements, future dreams, etc from journalists. One of you are supposed to act as the speaker, Dr. Yuan, and others the journalists.

13. Homework: 1.Textbook P12EX1.2.3 2.Period 1 单选