Unit 2,Working the land,Reading I,Have you ever been to the countryside?,What does a farmer usually look like?,Can you use some words to describe farming?,If tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat, what would happen?,Famine in 1936,If you have the chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world, what would you do ?,Scanning,Scan the passage and find out the answers to the questions. What does Dr Yuan look like?,2. Whats his achievement?,He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim, strong body. He is more like a farmer than a scientist.,Super hybrid rice.,Carefully reading,Read the text more carefully and try to write out the heading of each paragraph.,Paragraph 1: Paragraph 2: Paragraph 3: Paragraph 4:,Dr Yuna and his achievement,His biography,His personality,His dreams,Please write down more information about each heading.,1. Dr Yuan and his achievement. (1) A scientist _ the land. (2) _ face and arms, _, _ body. (3) Grow _ _. (4) The first _ _.,2. His biography. (1) _ in 1931. (2) In 1953, _ and _ his life _ finding ways to grow rice. (3) Last year, _ _ tons of rice was_. (4) Now, Dr Yuan is _ his knowledge.,3. His personality. (1) He is _ with his life. He cares little about money or _ a comfortable life. (2) He _ _ keep time for his hobby.,4. His dreams.,Listening,You might guess that Dr Yuan, who is now rich and famous, is _ with his life. However, he cares little _ spending money on himself or _ a comfortable life. He believes that a person with too much money had more trouble. So he gives millions of yuan to _ others for their _ in agriculture. He would _ keep time for his _. His hobbies _ playing mah-jong, swimming and reading. He _ _ walk to his rice fields _ a day, but now he_ to ride his _.,Retell the text according to time line,Yuan Longping was born into a poor farmers family. Chinese farmers produced five and a half billion tons of rice. Yuan longping graduated from Southwest Agriculture College. He became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output. Nearly twenty billion tons of rice was produced. More than 60% of the rice produced in China each year is from this hybrid strain,1931 1950 1953 1974 Last year Now,Language points:,1.graduate from In two years he will graduate from high school. 2.thanks to Thanks to Dr Smith, I can walk around again now. I was late thanks to the traffic. 3. twice as large as before. 倍數(shù)+,as+ adj/adv + as,adj/adv +比較級+ than,the +相應(yīng)名詞形式+of,1.Paper produced every year is _ the worlds production of vehicles. (1998) A. the three times weight of B. three times the weight of C. as three times heavy as D. three times as heavier as 2.American eat _ vegetables per person today as they did in 1910. A. more than twice B. as twice as many C. twice as many as D. more than twice as many,B,D,4. be satisfied with Father is not satisfied with my school work. He was satisfied when he won the race. be satisfied of / that I am satisfied of his innocence= I am satisfied that he is innocent.,5. would rather do sth. would rather do . than do I would rather stay at home than go out. =I preferred to stay at home rather than go out.,6. with the hope of He went to see his boss with the hope of getting a rise in his salary. He decided to talk to his teacher with the hope of persuading her to give him a higher grade.,A poem,Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray, Due to their toiling day.,