1、2018学年度人教版必修4 Unit1Working the Land,Period1Reading A Pioneer for all People,Enjoy a Poem By Li Shen,Farmers weeding at noon,Sweat down the field soon.,Who knows food on a tray,Due to their toiling day., Have you ever grow any plant? Do you know how to grow a plant? How do you think to grow our main
2、food-rice?,Warming up,First, the farmers plough 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!,ploughing（犁田）,Learn the words,seeding,fertilizing
3、 (施肥),irrigating (灌溉),transplanting 插秧,harvesting,winnowing ( 扬 谷 ),RICE,Pre-reading,Read the statistics on Page 9. Did you know these facts before? What problem do they show ?,Worldwide , more than 1 billion people currently live below the international poverty line, earning less than $1 per day.,6
4、 million children under the age of 5 die every day as a result of hunger. Every day ,almost 16,000 children die from hunger, one child every five seconds.,If that happened, people might die of hunger. The whole world would get into trouble.,What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was sudden
5、ly no rice to eat?,Hunger,Do something to help end hunger in the world!,A Pioneer * For All People *,Reading:,Look at the title of the passage and the picture. What do you predict this passage is going to talk about? Then skim the passage to check if you were right.,In the late 1990s, Brown, an Amer
6、ican scholar, came up with the theory of Chinese Menace(威胁), which said that in the 2030s, Chinese population will add up to 1.6 billion, and had the question who would feed the large population in China as well as in the world.,Just at that time, a Chinese scientist declared to the world that China
7、 can solve the problem by herself and help to solve the same problem in the world.,Yuan Longping “Father of Hybrid Rice”,Thinking,* A pioneer -who is he and what scientific field does he specielize in ?,* FOR ALL PEOPLE - How did his achievements influence or change the world ?,* What will be said i
8、n the text to introduce this person ?,Skimming:,The main idea of each paragraph,Para.1 Yuan Longpings_. Para.2 Yuan Longpings biography. Para.3 Yuan Longpings _. Para.4 Yuan Longpings _.,achievements,personality,dreams,Scanning,Name _ Age _ Nationality _ Occupation _ Education _ Dream _ Achievement
9、_ Hobbies _ Appearance_,Yu a n Long ping,79 (as of 2009),agriculture scientist / farmer,to export his hybrid rice so that it can be grown around the globe.,In 1974, developed hybrid rice which produces 1/3 more than normal rice,graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953.,Chinese,violin mu
10、sic, mahjong, swi m ming, reading,Sunburnt face and arms and his slim,strong bodyare just like a Chinese farmer.,Careful reading:,Read the passage carefully and finish the following activities.,T or F,1 Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist. 2 Dr Yuans rice is one of the most suitable ways for C
11、hinas 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.,What does Dr. Yuan look like? Why?2. What happened to him in 1974?,Para 1:,He looks like a farmer because he always
12、 works under the sun for a long time.,He became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output.,Para 2:,Why did Dr. Yuan want to increase the rice output when he was young?2. How does he help rid the world of hunger?,Because at that time, hunger was a serious problem
13、 in many parts of the countryside. He saw many people were suffering from hunger when he was young.,He works hard to produce the hybrid rice that has a high output.,Which of the following description about Dr Yuans personality is not true?He is satisfied with his life because he isnow rich and famou
14、s. B. He cares little about money and fame. C. He would rather work than lead a comfortable life. D. He enjoys a simpler life than most rich and famous people.,Para. 3 Dr Yuans personality,Para4,1.What does “Wishing for things, however, costs nothing.” mean?2.Dr Yuan has dreams not only when he is _
15、 but also when he is_.,Dreams are free and everybody can have ideas about what they would like their future life to be.,asleep,awake,Wishing for things costs nothing,愿望是不花本钱的,Achieve your goal !,Yuans dreams,1) The first dream,2) The second dream,Produce a kind of rice that could feed more people,As
16、 huge as a peanut,The first dream,As tall as sorghum,As big as a corn,To export his rice so that it can be grown all over the world,The second dream,To feed the _!,world,Personal information,Achievements:,Hobbies:,grow rice that has a high output,circulate his knowledge abroad,give money to equip ot
17、hers for their research,playing his violin,listening to violin music,playing mah-jong,swimming,riding his motorcycle to his rice fields,Be a dreamer,Follow the example of Dr Yuan,and fight for dreams,Discussing,Even if Dr. Yuans dreams come true, can this really solve starvation?,If you had the chan
18、ce to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do ?,How to solve hunger?,making good use of the waste land,developing the technology to,inventing a new kind of food,improving the quality of the soil,preventing the pests from eating our crops,& between Dr Yuan Longping and Jane Go
19、odall,similarities,differences,1. They spend their lifetime on their researches.,similarities,2. They make great contributions to mankind and the whole world.,3. They have their dreams and make great efforts to make them true.,4. They both lead a busy life.,5. They love their work with their pure lo
20、ve.,6. Theyre selfless and seldom think of themselves.,7. During the work, they never give up but just keep on, so theyre determined.,. . .,differences,They have been doing their researches in different fields. 2. They have different ways of working. 3. Their receiving education is different. 4. The difficulty in working is different fordifferent sexes. 5. They two got different results of researches. 6. They hold their different dreams. . .,Homework,Underline some useful words and phrases in the reading passage . Finish off Ex1,Ex2 on Page12.,So much for today!,
