Unit 5 Using Language (Listening and Speaking) 课件-2023-2024学年高二英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第一册

人教版（2019）选择性必修一 Unit 5 Working the Land Using Language Explore the world hunger problem Learning objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: 1. identify and use some words, such as nutrition and organic; 2. listen to and talk about the problem of world hunger; 3. practice listening to take notes and identify how the speaker supports his facts; 4. have a better understanding of World Food Day through organizing school activities for it; 5. grasp some expressions about sharing your opinions. Let’s look at these pictures. Lead-in Explore the world hunger problem Do you still remember what motivated Yuan Longping to study agriculture? Pre-listening My lifelong pursuit is to keep all the people away from hunger. — Yuan Longping In pairs, discuss what you can see in the photos and how you think each photo relates to world hunger. It represents the idea of war. Hunger often comes with war, as often people cannot farm, or they cannot work to earn money to buy food. And, even if they had money to buy food, the markets might be empty or closed. It represents the idea of drought. Either a river or a lake bed has been exposed by receding waters, leaving behind cracked soil. A child is pouring water onto the ground. When there is drought, crops cannot grow and animals may die. It represents famine. The child in the photo is a victim of famine, which is why his/her arm and hand are so thin. Famine is when the crops do not grow and there is not enough food for everyone to eat. While famine can be caused by drought, some of the worst famines in world history had other sources, such as insects or diseases that destroyed the crops, or weather that was either too hot or too cool for the crops to grow properly. Let’s learn the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the Untied Nations (FAO). FAO seeks to increase agricultural productivity, reduce poverty, make food distribution more efficient, and work to prevent hunger-causing disa