1. Unit 2 Working the Land

2. Presentation: What did you have for your lunch today? Where does the food come from? What else grow in the countryside?

3. cotton rice soybean sugarcane wheattea

7. livestock chickens pigs silkworms fish

8. Farmer’s proverbs and sayings The wisdom of farmers about the weather and farming is collected in many popular proverbs and passed on from generation to generation. The following proverbs tell you something about the weather in England. Are they true for China? No weather is ill, if the wind be still. Yellow sky at sunset, wind in the morrow. Rain before seven, clear by eleven. Aprl showers bring May flowers. Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves. The best ground bears weeds as well as flowers. Never cackle unless you lay.