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Warming up and reading Teaching Aims To help students develop their reading ability. To help students learn about working the land. Teaching Procedures I. Warming up

Warming up by questioning Hello, everyone. So nice to meet you here in my class. Now it is raining outside, and we all know that water is important for the growth of plant. And today, before our class begins, I have a gift for you. Look at the PPT, please. Here is a piece of poem written by a famous poet - Li Shen in Tang Dynasty. Let’s read it together. Just as the poem tells us, we should cherish the food we have, because all the food are planted by the farmers and it’s so difficult for them to get us such food. We shall read about man who works the land today. Have you ever grown any plants? If not, what kind of plant would you like to grow? How will you grow it? (For reference: Miss Guo, I worked with my father in the rice field last year. We grow hybrid rice and use animal wastes to make the soil rich.) Has anyone of you ever been to the countryside? What did you do there? (For reference: I went to Shexi during my summer vacation. I went there to visit my uncle’s family. I like that small beautiful village very much. )

Who are from a farmer’s family? What do you know about farming? (For reference: Miss Guo, I am from a farmer’s family in our class. My family grow wheat and raise pigs on our farms. And my family are going to expand the area of fields this year. )

Warming up: seeing and listening Boys and girls, I shall show you some photos of farming first. Look at this one. What is the people doing in the fields? Yes, he is ploughing. - 1 -

And then picture 2. What’s the old farmer doing there?

Yes, he is seeding. Then Picture 3, this woman is ... very good, she is fertilizing!

Then we have picture 4 for you. Look at this one, what’s the woman doing there? You are so smart, she is irrigating. - 2 -

Then, if you work hard all year long, you’ll get... harvest !

II. Pre-reading Questioning and answering Rice is main food in South China. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? (For reference: Then the south people would have to change their eating habit. They could turn to potatoes, wheat flour, cow and sheep cheese, cabbage, onions and garlic for food. They are the bases of the traditional food in North China. ) If you had the chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world, what would you do? (For reference: I would try to end hunger by popularizing the advanced farmingtechniques. Modern techniques could be introduced to increase the rice output, and

expand the area of fields.) - 3 -

Giving background information about Professor Yuan Longping Have you ever heard of a man called Professor Yuan Longping? Would anyone of you tell the class something about him? (For reference: Professor Yuan Longping is a Chinese agricultural scientist. Professor Yuan's breakthrough scientific achievement led to the world's first successful and widely grown hybrid rice varieties, revolutionizing rice cultivation in China and tripling production over a generation. His approach to rice breeding then spread internationally throughout Asia and to Africa and the Americas, providing food for tens of millions and leading to his becoming known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice." III. Reading Fast reading: Listen to the tape and read after it, try to get the the main idea of the whole text and the main content of each paragraph. Careful reading: The students will be given about 6 minutes to read the text again. After reading the should finish the exercise about the details of the text. 1. Why did Dr. Yuan want to develop a new species of rice in the 1950s? A. Because he wanted to win an award. B. Because he wanted to catch other's eye. C. Because hunger was a disturbing problem in China. D. Because his hometown suffered from drought. 2. How long did it take Dr. Yuan to develop his super hybrid rice? A. 12 years

B. 14 years C. 20 years

D. 25 years 3. What does Dr. Yuan think of being famous? A. It gives him a chance to know more important people. - 4 -

B. It makes him have more money to buy what he want. C. It makes him have less freedom to do his research.

D. It gives him a chance to take up(从事) more hobbies.

4. It can be inferred (推断) from the text that：

A. Yuan cares about money and being famous. B. Yuan is interested in playing the piano. C. Yuan’s rice is grown in many countries.

D. Spending money on himself means very much to Dr Yuan.

Post reading: The students will be asked to fill in the blanks of the main idea of the text.

Yuan Longping,

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was born in 1930, is one of China’s most famous

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(science). In 1953, Dr. Yuan graduated

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Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. At that time, hunger was

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disturbing problem in many parts of the countryside. Since then,

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(find) ways to grow more rice has been his life goal. In 1974, he invented super hybrid rice and

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(become) the first

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(agriculture) pioneer in the world. Thanks to

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research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world

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hunger. Dr Yuan is now circulating his knowledge in many less

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(develop) countries. Activity: Suppose you were Yuan Longping. Here are some questions for you. 1.

You have done many experiments, failure and success are hand in hand. Did you want to give up at the moment? 2. what do you think of fame(名声) and money? 3. Today, the young are eager to succeed without efforts, what’s your advice for them? IV Homework Finish the exercise on the workbook and preview the next part of this Unit.

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