人教版必修四Unit2(warmingupandreading)教学课件(共34p)

1、Unit 2Working the land第1页，共34页。Warming up & Reading第2页，共34页。Enjoy a PoemBy Li ShenFarmers weeding at noon,Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray, Due to their toiling day.第3页，共34页。Do you know these grains (谷物)?wheat rice sorghum高粱corn第4页，共34页。Have you ever grown any plants? If so, what

2、did you do to grow them?If not, what kind of plant would you like to grow?How will you grow it?第5页，共34页。select the weeds plough the soil turn over the soil sow the seeds remove the weeds fertilize farming steps第6页，共34页。Farming sowingploughing irrigating (灌溉)cropsweather &climaterice transplanting (插

3、秧)When we speak of farming, what words can we think of?第7页，共34页。What is the main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries?Rice. It is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice every day throughout the world. Answer the following questions:Pre-reading第8页，共34页。What do you think wo

4、uld happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?suffer from starvation and starve to deathfeel scared / be panic (惊慌)fight for food, even kill each other and the whole country would get into trouble.第9页，共34页。If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would y

5、ou do?第10页，共34页。How to solve hunger?making good use of the waste landdeveloping the technology to inventing a new kind of foodimproving the quality of the soil preventing the pests from eating our crops第11页，共34页。What do you predict this passage is going to talk about? A Pioneer For All People第12页，共3

6、4页。Father of Hybrid Rice第13页，共34页。Super Hybrid Ricethe rice that has a high output第14页，共34页。Find out the main idea of each paragraph.Skimming第15页，共34页。 Para 1 A. Dr Yuans dreams. Para 2 B. Dr Yuans personality. Para 3 C. Dr Yuans biography. Para 4 D. Dr Yuans appearance and his achievement.A PIONEER

7、 FOR ALL PEOPLEMatch the following headings with the right paragraphs.第16页，共34页。The text is about _ who made a great contribution to producing better _.Yuan Longpingrice 第17页，共34页。Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks. Yuan LongpingAppearance _ face and arms slim and strong bodysunburntCare

8、ful reading第18页，共34页。_developed super hybrid ricebecame the first _ in the world to grow high output ricehelps the UN reduce _ in the worldagricultural pioneer Achievements hunger 第19页，共34页。Experiences born in 1930 and _ from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953finding ways to grow more rice has b

9、een his life _ to _ his knowledge in less developed countries such as India and Vietnamcirculate graduatedgoal第20页，共34页。Personalitiesis satisfied with his life doesnt care about being famousgives a large amount of money to help others to do their _ in agriculturehas many dreams and never gives uplov

10、es and _ his peopleresearch care for第21页，共34页。to produce a kind of rice that could _ more peopleto _ his rice so that it can be grown around the globe_ feedDreamsexport第22页，共34页。Choose the best answers.1. What does the word “battle” refer to in the second paragraph?A. The low rice output.B. Ridding

11、the world of hunger.C. Fighting against farming.D. The freedom to do research.第23页，共34页。2. From the passage, we can know _.A. Yuan Longping is not a pioneer but a scientist in the research of the hybrid riceB. Yuans parents are both agricultural scientistsC. more than 60% of the rice produced in the

12、 world is from the hybrid strainD. using the hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before 第24页，共34页。3. It can be inferred from the text that _.A. Yuan knew the importance of rice importB. Yuan is interested in playing the violin C. Yuan is proud of his achievementsD. Yuans ri

13、ce are grown in many countries 第25页，共34页。Why did Yuan Longping want to increase the rice output when he was young? Dr Yuan wanted to increase the rice output because he saw many people go hungry when he was young.Answer these questions based on your understanding of the passage.Post reading第26页，共34页

14、。2. Is Yuan Longping more of a scientist or more of a farmer? Do you think he is a businessman? Give your reasons. I think he is more of a scientist. His main purpose is not to make a profit for himself but to study agriculture and use that knowledge to improve farming for farmers everywhere. I do n

15、ot think he is a businessman, because his goal is not to make money.第27页，共34页。3. How would you describe Yuan Longpings personality? Because of his work with developing hybrid rice, it seems that Yuan Longping must be a very patient and careful man. He didnt give up but kept working on his project. H

16、e also seems to be a very kind man, who cares for others. He wants to use his invention to help hungry people around the world.第28页，共34页。4. Yuan Longping was able to develop a successful agricultural product when thousands of other farmers could not. What do you think is the main reason for his succ

17、ess? I think Yuan Longping was successful because he kept working and did not give up. He was also very motivated to succeed and help other farmers around China.第29页，共34页。5. Yuan Longping thinks that a person with too much money has more rather than fewer troubles. Do you agree or disagree? Why? I m

18、ostly agree. I think being rich can cause a lot of problems, but it really depends on the life and attitude of the person who is rich. People who are rich certainly have different problems from people who are not.第30页，共34页。6. Yuan Longping developed super hybrid rice to help Chinese farmers and hung

19、ry people around the world. Can you think of any other major development that would make a great difference to world hunger? Write out your idea and then compare it with your partner.第31页，共34页。I think developing other hybrid grains would make a great difference in the problem of world hunger. Hybrid