A poemFarmers weeding at noon,

Sweat down the field soon.

Who knows food on a tray,

Due to their toiling day.

Warming up

1.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 grow?

How will you grow it?

What do you know about “farming”?

wheat sorghum rice

corn Potatoes

Staple food

select the weeds plough the soil turn over the soil

sow the seeds remove the weeds fertilize

farming steps

plow the field

grow some young plants

insert the young plants into the field

harvest

rice

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 the world.

If there was no rice one day, what would happen?

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.

Father of Hybrid RiceFather of Hybrid Rice

1.When and who did become the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output?

2. What did Yuan Longping invent?

In 1974,Yuan Longping

Hybrid rice

Task 1 Skimming

袁隆平被誉为中国的“杂交水稻之父” . 中国农民说，吃饭靠“两平”，一靠邓小平 ---- 制定了生产承包责任制的政策，二靠袁隆平 ---- 发明了杂交稻。 袁隆平，男，１９３０年９月出生于北京，１９５３年毕业于西南农学院农学系。毕业后，一直从事农业教育及杂交水稻研究。 在中国人民正闹饥荒的 20 世纪 60 年代，袁隆平提出了杂交水稻的概念，这种新型水稻具有高产量的特点。 10 年后，他研制成功了一种产量比一般水稻高出 20% 的新型水稻。　　袁隆平一生献身于农业研究，先后受到联合国教科文组织、粮农组织的称誉。袁隆平虽已年届７０岁，仍然一如既往地从事农业研究。

袁隆平人物简历

hybrid rice;System of Production Responsibility;institute;suffer the famine;yield;UNESCO, FAO.

Task 2 Scanning

Find out the main idea of

each paragraph.

Para1 A. Dr Yuan’s dreams.

Para2 B. Dr Yuan’s personality.

Para3 C. Dr Yuan’s biography.

Para4 D. Dr Yuan’s appearance

and his achievement.

A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE

Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.

Para. 1 Dr Yuan’s appearance and his achievement

Task 3 Careful reading

Q1: What does Dr Yuan look like?He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim, strong body. He is more like a farmer than a scientist.

Q2: What is 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.

True or False:

1.Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist.

2.Dr Yuan’s kind of rice is the most suitable for China’s farmland.

F

T

Para 2 His biographyTime information

1930

1953

As a young man

Last year

now

Born in Beijing

Southwest Agriculture College

Hunger was a great problem

Saw the great need for increasing the rice output

200 million tons produced

Circulating his knowledge

a. He was born into a poor farmer’s family . b. He graduated from Southwest Agriculture college. c. In 1950,Chinese farmers produced 5.5 billion tons of rice. d. 20 billon tons of rice was produced by growing his hybrid rice. e. He searched for a way to increase rice outputs without expanding the area of fields. f. He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries.

Proper order: a c b e d f

Put Dr Yuan’s biography in right order. Dr Yuan’s biography

Which of the following description about Dr Yuan’s personality is not true?

A. He is satisfied with his life because he is now rich and famous.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 Yuan’s personality

His dreamsHis dreams Para4

1) The first dream

2) The second dream

Produce a kind of rice that could feed more people

• As 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

Revision.(personal information)

• Name:• Nationality:• Born:• Occupation:• Education:• Dream:• Achievements:• Hobbies:

Personal information (Resume)

• Name:

• Nationality:

• Birth:

• Age:

• Occupation:

• Education:

• Personality:

• Dreams:

Yuan Longping

Chinese

in 1930; in a poor family

77

Scientist of farming

Southwest Agriculture College,in 1953

His first dream

His second dream

care little about money and fame

Personal information

Achievements:

Hobbies:

grow rice that has a high output

circulate his knowledge abroad

give money to equip others for their research

playing his violin

listening to violin musicplaying mah-jong

swimming

riding his motorcycle to his rice fields

T or F 1 Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist. 2 Dr Yuan’s rice is one of the most suitable ways for China’s 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.

The following sentences are taken from the reading passage. Explain what the underlined words mean.

1.He wants everyone to call him a farmer, for that’s how he regards himself.

Key: It means he thinks of himself as a farmer but other people may think of him as a famous scientist or a rich man.

Post reading

2. In many ways, he is one of them, and he has struggled for the past five decades to help them.

Key: It means he does not only look like a farmer but also he works in the fields with farmers. In fact, he does scientific research for them.

3. At that time, hunger was a serious problem in many parts of the countryside.

Key: It means that many people were very hungry and they even became ill and died because there was not enough food.

4. Using his hybrid rice farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before.

Key: It means that farmers growing his rice species are producing rice twice as much as they did in the past.

5. Wishing for thongs, however, cost nothing.

Key: It means that dreams are free and everybody can have ideas about what they would like their future life to be.

Discussion

What is happening to these people?

HungerHunger

If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do ?

The measures taken to deal with hunger

Invent 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 protect the soil in the field.

… etc.