Have you ever grown any plants? If so, what did you do to grow them?

2. Have you ever grown any plants? • If so, what did you do to grow them? • If not, what kind of plant would you like to grow? • How will you grow it?

3. plough the soil select the weeds turn over the soil sow the seeds remove the weeds fertilize

4. 3. What do you know about farming? Tips: importance farming pioneers farming methods ……. etc. Jia Sixie Yuan Longping

5. 2. Have you ever been to the countryside? What did you do there?

6. Do you know these grains(谷物)? wheat sorghum 高粱 rice

7. Brainstorming What will you think of when you see the word “farming”? farmers rice farming wheat field fertilizer cotton

8. some farming methods

9. Unit 2 Working the land

10. If there were no rice one day, what would happen?

11. What is happening to these people? • What can we do to solve this problem?

12. Hunger

13. Do something to help end hunger in the world!!!

14. Look at the pictures and compare traditional（传统的）and modern farming.

16. In the past,farmers grow crops in the traditional way. Using cattle to plough the field. farmers work most of the day all year around, but they could not produce enough food for the wholepopulation. At present, they use modern techniques in their fields to improve agricultural production such as chemical fertilizers, greenhouses and so on. Great changes have taken place in agriculture.

17. What makes the rice growing year by year?

18. hybrid rice

19. Father of Hybrid Rice Yuan Longping

20. 袁隆平人物简历 袁隆平被誉为中国的“杂交水稻之父”. 中国农民说，吃饭靠“两平”，一靠邓小平----制定了生产承包责任制的政策，二靠袁隆平----发明了杂交稻。 袁隆平，男，１９３０年９月出生于北京，１９５３年毕业于西南农学院农学系。毕业后，一直从事农业教育及杂交水稻研究。 在中国人民正闹饥荒的20世纪60年代，袁隆平提出了杂交水稻的概念，这种新型水稻具有高产量的特点。10年后，他研制成功了一种产量比一般水稻高出20%的新型水稻。 　　袁隆平一生献身于农业研究，先后受到联合国教科文组织、粮农组织的称誉。袁隆平虽已年届７０岁，仍然一如既往地从事农业研究。

21. A Pioneer For All People

22. Task 1 Listen to the tape carefully then answer these questions.

23. 1.When and who did become the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output? In 1974,Yuan Longping 2. What did Yuan Longping invent? Hybrid rice

24. Task 2 1.Read the passage once again,then find out these sentences true or false. p10 Yes or No?

25. T or F F T 1 Dr Yuan is more a farmer thana 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. T T T

26. 2.Find out the topic sentences of each paragraph Para. 1: He became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output. Para.2:He has devoted his life to finding ways to grow more and more rice.. Para.3:He cares little about spending the money on himself and would rather keep time for his hobbies. Para.4:Dr Yuan ‘s dreams.

27. Task 3 Write down Yuan Longping’s personal information

28. name achievement Nationality born Personal information hobbies age occupation dream education

29. 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 1953 With the hope of producing a kind of rice that could feed more people To export his rice so that it can be grown all over the world

30. Personal information grow rice that has a high output find ways to grow more rice Achievements: circulate his knowledge abroad give money to equip others for their research playing his violin listening to violin music playing mah-jong Hobbies: swimming riding his motorcycle to his rice fields reading

31. Time & Events Yuan Longping was born into ____________________ a poor farmer’s family. 5.5 Chinese farmers produced _______billion tons of rice. Yuan graduated from Southwest Agriculture Institute. 1953 ____ the first agricultural pioneer Yuan became _________________________in the world to grow rice that has a high output. 20 Nearly ____billion tons of rice was produced. circulating his knowledge Yuan is ________________________in India, Vietnam and other less developed countries.

32. Task 4 Find out the main idea of each paragraph

33. The main idea of each paragraph: • Yuan’s great achievement:super hybrid rice. • His devotion to the research of finding a way to grow more rice. • Yuan leads a ordinary life. • Yuan’s dreams.

34. Thank you!