Unit 2 working the land Lesson one Reading Warming up: Do you know how to grow rice?

Unit 2 working the landLesson one Reading

Warming up:Do you know how to grow rice?

plow the field

grow some young plants

insert the young plants into the field

harvest

rice

In this lesson we will learn something about the modern agricultural problems and an agricultural scientist, Yuan Longping.

Pre- reading:

Possible version:

Yuan Longping is known as China’s “father of hybrid rice”. It’s said that in China, we eat depending on “Two Ping” ---- Deng Xiaoping, who made the policy of System of Production Responsibility, & Yuan Longping, who invented hybrid rice. Yuan Longping, who was born in September, 1930, graduated from Agriculture Department in Southwest Agricultural Institute. He has been working on agriculture education & the research into hybrid rice since he left the institute. In the 1960s, when China was suffering serious famine, he came up with the idea of hybrid rice, which has a high yield. Ten years later, he succeeded in inventing a new species that produced a 20 percent higher yield than common types of rice. Yuan devoted himself to the research into agriculture, & was honored by UNESCO & FAO. Although he is over 70 years old, he is still working on the research into agriculture.

Listen to the tape carefully then answer these questions.

Age

career

Education

Achievement

Hobbies

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An _____________ scientistagricultural

__________ degreeDoctor’s

Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvest _______ as large as before.

twice

Play his violin, mah-jong, _________ and __________

swimmingreading

Listen to the text for the personal information of Yuan Longping

Yes or No?

Read the passage once again,then find out whether these sentences are true or false.

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Read the passage and finish the following:

1 Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist.

2 Dr Yuan’s kind of rice is the most suitable for China’s farmland.

3 Dr Yuan would rather work than relax.

4 Dr Yuan has dreams when he is asleep and also when he is awake.

5 Dr Yuan enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people.

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Write down Yuan Longping’s personal informa

tion

Personal information

nameNationality

born

age

occupationeducation

dream

hobbies

achievement

Personal information

• Name:

• Nationality:

• Born:

• Age:

• Occupation:

• Education:

• Dream:

Yuan Longping

Chinese

in 1931; in a poor family

74

Scientist of farming

Southwest Agriculture College,in 1953With the hope of producing a kind of

rice that could feed more peopleTo export his rice so that it can be

grown all over the world

Personal information

Achievements:

Hobbies:

grow rice that has a high output

find ways to grow more rice

circulate his knowledge abroad

give money to equip others for their research

playing his violin

listening to violin musicplaying mah-jong

swimming

reading

riding his motorcycle to his rice fields

Find out the main idea of each paragraph

The main idea of each paragraph:

1st para: Yuan’s great achievement:

super hybrid rice.

2nd para: His devotion to the research of finding a way to grow more rice.

3rd para: Yuan leads an ordinary life.

4th para: Yuan’s dreams.

Can you describe Dr Yuan’s personality?

simple, honest, hard-working cares little…, warm–hearted, …

Discussion

Homework:

1.1. Read the passage for several Read the passage for several times.times.

2.2. Retell the text according to time Retell the text according to time line after class.line after class.

Thank you