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.