廣東地區(qū)高一英語unit2 working the land warmingup and reading課件 新課標 必修4

1、First, the farmers plow the field. They have to make the soil loose enough to plant crops.What are they doing?Second, they grow some young plants.Third, they insert the young plants into the loose field.What a big harvest!Agriculture in the pastAgriculture in the modern timesGrowth of major farm pro

2、ducts1991-95 compared with 1986-90 percentages.Agriculture has been greatly developed nowadays.Pre-reading ( 4ms )Answer the following questions: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 t

3、he world. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat?If that happened, people there would suffer from starvation. People would be panic(驚慌) and the whole country would get into trouble.How to solve hunger? making good use of the waste land developing the technology

4、to inventing a new kind of foodimproving the quality of the soil preventing the pests from eating our cropsThe measures taken to deal with hungerInvent 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 protec

5、t the soil in the field.Unit 2 Working the landReading A Pioneer For All People羅遠芬 袁隆平被譽為中國的“雜交水稻之父”. 中國農民說，吃飯靠“兩平”，一靠鄧小平-制定了生產承包責任制的政策，二靠袁隆平-發(fā)明了雜交稻。 袁隆平，男，年月出生于北京，年畢業(yè)于西南農學院農學系。畢業(yè)后，一直從事農業(yè)教育及雜交水稻研究。 在中國人民正鬧饑荒的20世紀60年代，袁隆平提出了雜交水稻的概念，這種新型水稻具有高產量的特點。10年后，他研制成功了一種產量比一般水稻高出20%的新型水稻。袁隆平一生獻身于農業(yè)研究，先后受到聯(lián)合國教科文

6、組織、糧農組織的稱譽。袁隆平雖已年屆歲，仍然一如既往地從事農業(yè)研究。袁隆平人物簡歷hybrid rice;System of Production Responsibility;institute;suffer the famine;Yield;UNESCO, FAO.Predicting:From the title, what do you think the text is about?A Pioneer For All PeopleScanning: Scan the text, try to find out some information of the hero.Name _Ag

7、e _Job _Education _Achievement _Hobbies _Yuan Longping74 agriculture scientist inventing hybrid rice violin music, mah-jong, swimming, reading college graduate, a doctor Skimming: find out the main idea of each paragraph.ParagraphMain Idea1His _2His _3His _4His _ appearance and achievements birth, e

8、ducation and research noble personality dreams1.What does Dr Yuan look like?2.Whats his achievement?3.What do you think of him?Fast reading ( 5ms ) Read the text fast and answer the following questions:1.What does Dr Yuan look like?He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim, strong body. He is more

9、like a farmer than a scientist.2.Whats his achievement?He grows what is called super hybrid rice, which makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields. Using his hybrid rice farmers producing harvests twice as large as before.3.What do you think of him?He doesnt like mone

10、y because he gives millions of yuan to equip others for their research in agriculture. He doesnt like fame too though he has made great contributions to the world. Hes really respectable.father of hybrid riceA pioneer for all peopleHe wants everyone to call him a farmer.His biography.His personality

11、. His dreams.Large headingsHe wants everyone to call him a farmer.His biography.His personality. His dreams.He wants everyone to call him a farmer.A scientist works the land.Sunburnt face and arms, slim ,strong body.Grow hybrid rice.The first agricultural pioneer.Large headingsHe wants everyone to c

12、all him a farmer.His biography.His personality. His dreams.His biography.In 1931, he was born.In 1953, he graduated and devoted his life to finding ways to grow rice.Last year,twenty billion tons of rice was produced. Now, Dr Yuan is circulating his kownledge.Large headingsHe wants everyone to call

13、him a farmer.His biography.His personality.His dreams.His personalityHe is satisfied with his life.Why is he satisfied with his life?Because he doesnt like money and fame.His dreamsHis biography.His personality.His dreams.He wants everyone to call him a farmer.The first dream.The second dream.Lets l

14、earn the language points in Unit 2 together. Are you ready? Go!Language points for Reading I1.Dr Yuan grows what is called super hybrid rice.袁博士種植了被人稱作超級雜交水稻的稻谷。e.g. I dont quite understand what you are explaining. Please watch what I am doing carefully.What =the thing(s) that_the emperor saw was qu

15、ite different from_ the old minister told him.A. What, that B. That, whatC. Which, that D. All, all 2. It is pretty well understood _controls the flow of carbon dioxide in and out the atmosphere today.A. that B. when C. what D. how 2. This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce one-thir

16、d more of the crop in the same fields.這種特殊的稻種使得同樣的田地多收獲三分之一的產量。it 在句中作形式賓語，真正的賓語為to produce, 結構為：動詞（make, feel, think, regard）+it +adj+ to do.e.g. We think it important to learn English well.3.Born in a poor farmers family in 1931,Dr. Yuan graduate from Southwest Agriculture College in 1953. 袁博士1931

17、年出身于一個貧苦農民的家庭，1953年畢業(yè)于西南農學院。 graduate n. a person who has completed a university degree course. 畢業(yè)生undergraduate 本科畢業(yè)生post-graduate 碩士畢業(yè)生，研究生graduate vi. complete an educational course. 常跟介詞from，表示“畢業(yè)于”graduation n. 畢業(yè)e.g. After his graduation from college, he went to work as an engineer in a compan

18、y.=After he graduated from college, he went to work as an engineer in a company.Supplement :bachelors degree 學士學位masters degree 碩士學位doctors degree 博士學位4.Since then, he has devoted his life to finding ways to grow more and more rice. 從那以后，他就把畢生精力投入到水稻高產的研究中。devote oneself to+ n/doing 獻身于，致力于注意：to 為介詞

19、，后面接v-ing.類似的短語還有l(wèi)ook forward to, listen to, get to, reply to, apologize to, belong to, agree to等等. 5. Dr Yuan searched for a way to increase rice harvest without expanding the area of fields.袁博士尋求一種在不擴大種植面積的情況下提高水稻產量的方法。注意：search強調搜查，一般表示目標明確范圍較小。search sb 搜身；search spl 搜查某地search for 強調尋找，一般表示范圍較大

20、。search for sb 尋找某人e.g. The police searched the woods for the lost child.警察在樹林里尋找失蹤的小孩。Scientists are still searching for a cure to the common cold.科學家們仍然在尋找普通感冒的治療方法。search/search for/in search of1.The officer went up _the murder.2.The thieves are _the hidden treasure in the museum.3.Birds fly to t

21、he south _the winter sunshine.to search searching for in search of6.Thanks to his research, the UN is trying to rid the world of hunger.由于他的研究，聯(lián)合國正在努力清除世界饑餓。thanks to=because of ;owing to e.g._, we won the game.由于你的支持，我們贏得了比賽。Thanks to your support7.Using his hybrid rice farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before.用他的雜交水稻種子，農民們種出比以前多一倍的糧食。倍數(shù)詞（twice/half/three times/a quarter etc.）+as + 形容詞原級 +as 表示“是的多少倍e.g. The number of the students in our school is _ in their sc