working the land unit 2 warming up and reading 莆田第十中学 英语组 陈雪静
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Working the Land
Unit 2
Warming up and reading
莆田第十中学 英语组 陈雪静
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1. Have you ever been to the countryside?
2. Do you know how to work on a farm?
Step 1: warming up
Let’s go to the farm!
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First, buy or select the seeds from the
store.
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Second, we need to plough or turn
over the soil.
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Third , we sow the seeds
in the soil.
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Finally, we can harvest our
grain/sorghum/peanuts .
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Enjoy a PoemBy Li Shen
Farmers weeding at noon,
Sweat down the field soon.
Who knows food on a tray,
Due to their toiling day.
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In order to improve the output of the crop, we need to rid the soil of the weed,
water the crop, fertilize the soil and kill off the pest.
water the crop rid the soil of the weed
fertilize the soil kill off the pest
to improve the output of the crop
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Para1 A. Dr Yuan’s dreams.
Para2 B. Dr Yuan’s personality.
Para3 C. Dr Yuan’s biography.
Para4 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance
and his achievement.
Match the following main ideas with the right paragraphs.
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Para. 1 Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievementTask 2 Careful reading
Q1: What does Dr Yuan look like?He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim, strong body. He is more like a farmer than a scientist.
Q2: What is his achievement?He grows what is called super hybrid rice, which makes it possible to produce 20 percent more of the crop in the same fields.
Appearance
Achievement
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Personal Information
Name:
Nationality:
Born:
Age:
Occupation:
Education:
Dream:
Yuan Longping
Chinese
in 193086
scientist/farmer
Southwest Agricultural College, in 1953
To export his hybrid rice so that itcan be grown around the globe
Para 2
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Para. 2 His biography
Time information
1930
1953
As a young man
In a recent
harvest
now
He was born.
Graduated from college
Saw the great need for increasing the rice output.
200 million tons was produced
Circulating his knowledge
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a. He was born into a poor farmer’s family .
b. He graduated from Southwest Agriculture college.
c. In 1950,Chinese farmers produced fifty million
tons of rice.
d. 200 million tons of rice was produced by growing his hybrid rice.
e. He searched a way to increase rice outputs without expanding the area of fields.
f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries.
Put the Dr Yuan’s biography in right order.
a c b e d f
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Paragraph 3
• Topic sentence?• Dr Yuan is quite satisfied with his life.• He doesn’t care about ______ .• He likes freedom for his search and hobbies.
being famous
Personality
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Hobbies:
1.
2.
3.
4.
listening to violin music
reading
playing mah-jongswimming
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Paragraph 4
Topic sentence?
Just dreaming for things, however, costs nothing.
dreams
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Para 4: his dreams
His first dream His second dream
▲(rice plants) As tall as sorghum
▲( each ear) As big as an ear of corn
▲(each grain) As huge as a peanut
To export his rice so that it can be grown all over the world
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DiscussionIf you had the chance to do something to rid the world of hunger, what would you do ?
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The measures taken to deal with hunger:
Invent a new kind of plant to produce more food.
Find a sort of fertilizer( 肥料 )to give rice enough nutrition.
Stop the pollution to the environment and protect the soil in the field.… etc.
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Homework 1. Review new words and useful expressions o
f the text.
2. P12
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