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Listening and Speaking
听说
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know about FAO and World Food Day as well as the causes of world hunger and counter measures.
grasp the main idea and identify the supporting evidence by understanding the key points in the radio interview.
think deeper about the world hunger problem from the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind.
express ideas and state reasons about world hunger problem by analyzing deeply about the information related to it.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this class, you will be able to :
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Warm-up
Part 1
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My lifelong pursuit is to keep all the people away from hunger.
---Yuan Longping
Do you think Yuan Longping can solve the world hunger problem all by himself ?
We need international cooperation.
Actually, there does exist such an international organization.
Do you know about it ?
Do you know what it is?
wheat
Latins.
Let there be bread
Can you guess what does FAO stand for?
F: Food
A: Agriculture
O: Organization
More information about FAO:
Responsibility: seek to increase agricultural productivity,
reduce poverty,
make food distribution more efficient
Headquarter: Rome
194 members
World Food Day
Time: October 16 every year
Significance: raise awareness and knowledge
of the problems and causes
behind world hunger and poverty.
World Food Day
Pre-listening
Part 2
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Review and discuss
Do you still remember what motivated Yuan Longping to study agriculture?
Farmers’ poor harvests and serious shortage of food to eat.
hunger problem
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Review and discuss
Can you think of any other causes that may relate to the world hunger problem? Please refer to the pictures in Activity 1.
drought
war
shortage of food /famine
Drought leads to the poor harvest of crops and death of animals.
War often results in hunger, bec