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UNIT 5 WORKING THE LAND
My lifelong pursuit is to keep all the people away from hunger.—Yuan Longping
我毕生追求就是让所有人远离饥饿。——袁隆平
单元素养目标
文化、思维、学习能力目标
体会以袁隆平为代表的农业科学家对我国以及全球农业发展的贡献,明确农业领域中的热点问题,理解农业可持续发展的重要意义;能够客观分析并识别各种信息之间的内在关联和差异,表达自己对农业发展、粮食问题的看法;能够分辨观点与事实,清楚对因果关系的解释和说明
语言能力目标
核心单词
devote,shortage,tackle,crisis,boost,convince,characteristic,attain,conventional,assumption,intense,overcome,expand,output,estimate,domestic,consumption,comprise,generate,leisure,soil,celebrity,grain,vision,reality,salty,urban,bomb,extension,chemical,wheat,flavour,nutritional,nutrition,organic,widespread,digest,essential,mineral,alternative,grocery,instance,depth,root,entirely,aspect
重点词块
work the land,conduct research,fulfil one's dreams,devote ...to,pursue a career in,have a shortage of,tackle the crisis,a matter of great debate,overcome enormous technical difficulties,be comprised of,deep down,alleviate world hunger,in turn,free of,for instance,in conclusion
单元语法
主语从句
写作能力
写一篇关于农业生产方式的议论文
单元话题导入
[品读话题短文]
❶With us long believing that talking plants are fantasy,new research has revealed something amazing:it appears that plants can communicate after all①.
It has been known for some time that plants use chemicals to communicate with each other.This happens when a plant,say② a bean plant,gets attacked③ by insects.The plant releases④ tiny amounts of chemicals from the leaves that are being eaten.This is like a warning,or a call for help:“I'm being attacked!”When another bean plant detects the chemicals from its injured neighbour,it starts to release its own,different chemicals.Some of these chemicals drive insects away⑤.Others attract insects—the wasps⑥! The wasps kill the insects that are eating the bean plants.❷Scientists hope to learn more about this plant warning system,so that we can use it to grow crops without pesticides.
More surprisingly,plants also use sound to communicate.People can't hear these sounds,but plants are making them.Some plants make noises⑦ with thei