Unit 2
Working the landWarming up
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.
What do you know about “farming”?
wheat rice
corn potatoes peanut
tomatoesbroomcorn
cotton
Agriculture in the past
Agriculture in the modern times
Have you ever been to the countryside? What did you see or do there?
Are you from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming?
ploughing( 犁田 )
seeding ( 播种 )
fertilizing( 施肥 )
irrigating( 灌溉 )
harvesting ( 收获 )
winnowing ( 扬谷 )
grow some young plants
insert the young plants into the field
Have you ever grown any plants? If so,what did you do to grow them? If not, what kind of plant would you like to trygrowing? How would you grow it?
rice
Read the statistics below. Did you know these facts before? What pro
blem do they show?
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.
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 suddenly no rice to eat?
Hunger
n. 饥饿 , 饥渴 ; 渴望
vi. 渴望 ; 渴求
Do something
to help end
hunger in the
world!!!
The only way to solve the food
shortage problem is to increase the
yield of the grain crop per land area
through the advancement of science
and technology.
In the late 1990s, Brown, an
American 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 can solve the problem by himself and help to solve the same problem in the world.
Yuan Longping
“Father of
Hybrid Rice”
辣椒
杂交棉
杂交梨
重穗型超高产杂交稻
杂交甜椒
杂交茄子
杂交玉米
Brainstorming
What will you think of when you see the word “farming”?
farming
farmers
field
rice
fertilizer
wheat
cotton
Homework
1. Surf the Internet to find more information about farming.2. Preview the reading.