Unit5 Working the land Using language Reading课件 -2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第一册 -

Unit5 Using Language Reading Language objectives: To understand, remember and use the words / blocks / sentences in the discourse, especially about the advantages and problems of organic agriculture and chemical agriculture; to be able to analyze and use discourse markers to explain their opinions and clarify their logical relationship. Ability goal: to be able to clearly express their views, and to make theoretical evidence in a certain logical order, to express their own views on agricultural development. Emotional goal: To understand the basic position and important role of agriculture in China's economic development, and to understand the necessity and significance of sustainable agricultural development work. Learning Objectives 12 percent of the world's population people suffer from hunger worldwide. Ninety-eight percent of them live in developing countries. 553 million live in the Asian and Pacific regions, while 227 million live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Latin America and the Caribbean account for 47 million. India has the highest population of hungry people. In 2014, over 190.7 million people were undernourished in India. People die of world hunger each year according to world hunger statistics are more than the death toll for malaria, AIDs and tuberculosis combined in 2012. Approximately 9 million people die every year. One third of them are children. In 2011 poor nutrition accounted for 45 percent of deaths for children under five. Over 60 percent of the world hungry are women, who have limited access to resources because of the patriarchal societies in which they live. Great strides have been made towards ending world hunger. The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations estimates that the total number of hungry people worldwide has been reduced by 216 million people since 1992. One region that has shown little reduction in hunger has been Sub-Saharan Africa. While the hunger rate in this region fell 10 percent from 1992-2014, the numbe