Unit 5 Working the Land Reading and Thinking 课件-2024-2025学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第一册

Reading and Thinking Unit 5 Working the Land Get to know an agricultural scientist Learning Objectives To read about agricultural scientist Yuan Longping To summarize Yuan Longping's process of breeding hybrid rice To analyze and summarize Yuan Longping’s qualities seeding 播种 fertilizing 施肥 ploughing (犁田) What do you know about farming? irrigating 灌溉 transplanting 插秧 harvesting 收割 winnowing 扬谷 Lead-in Yuan Longping What do you know about him? 我毕生的梦想是让所有人远离饥饿。 My lifelong pursuit is to keep all the people away from hunger. 6 A Pioneer for all people A person who is the first to study a new area of knowledge. all people: the people all around the world. Look at the title and picture, try to guess what the passage will talk about? Step 1：Pre-reading - I can make predicrion What do you know about Yuan Longping? 2.What does a biography usually include? Skim the text and match the main idea with each paragraph. Use one key word to summarize each paragraph. Para.1 Para.4 Para.3 Para.2 Para.5 Para.6 A. Yuan conducted research and developed hybrid rice. B. Yuan is old but still working hard to fulfil his dreams. C. Yuan considers himself a farmer. D. Yuan decided to study agriculture. E. Yuan’s innovation has helped to feed more people. F. Yuan cares little for fame or wealth. identity Education/ experience research/ achievements influence qualities dreams While-reading tip 1. Who is the pioneer? ---- Para 1 Yuan Longping, known as the “father of hybrid rice”, was one of China’s most famous scientists. Yet, he considered himself a farmer because he continually worked the land in his research. Indeed, his slim but strong body was just like that of millions of Chinese farmers, to whom he had devoted his life. A Pioneer for All People to whom he had devoted his life. father scientist farmer Yuan’s devotion to farmers and farming. Read para.1 and find Yuan’s identities P1 Yuan Longping was born in 1930 in Beijing. His parents wanted him to pursue a career in science or medicine. However, what concerned him most was that farmers often had poor harvests and sometimes even had a serious shortage of food to eat. To tackle this crisis, he chose to study agriculture and received an education at Southwest Agricultural College in Chongqing. P2 Why did Yuan Longping decide to study agriculture? Read para.2 and answer the question 设计人员 realized boost yields worked convinced the creation of hybrid rice overcame as a researcher in 1953 technical difficulties developed hybrid rice in 1974 How did Yuan Longping develop hybrid rice? Read para.3 and find the information P3 verbs 15 Q1:How has Yuan’s work helped China and other countries ? ________ domestic rice consumption produce _______ tons of rice per year + + Feed _______ countries = received ________ awards 60 percent 200 million many other numerous Read para.4 and answer the question Q2:what is the funtion of the numbers ? Emphasize Yuan's invaluable countributions P4 Given that Yuan’s hybrids have made him quite wealthy, one might think he would retire to a life of leisure. However, this is far from the case. Deep down, Yuan is still very much a farmer at heart. As a man of the soil, he cares little for celebrity or money. Instead, he makes large donations to support agricultural research. P5 • a wealthy & famous scientist • retire to a life of leisure • a farmer at heart • a man of the soil By contrast How does the writer develop Para.5? Read para.5 and find Yuan’s choice after being famous 3. He made it. His visions ---- Para 6 He chose not to retire but to fulfil his dreams. His former vision: His later vision: as tall as sorghum as big as a broom as huge as a peanut “seawater rice” 海水稻 P6 ▲rice plants as tall as ________ ▲each ear of rice as big as a ______ ▲each grain of rice as huge as a ______ His first dream His later vision seawater rice peanut broom sorghum Read para.6 and draw the picture My lifelong pursuit is to keep all the people away from hunger. --Yuan Longping His dream and qualities will never die! Further reading 1.Yuan Longping, known as the “father of hybrid rice”, was one of China’s most famous scientists. Yet, he considered himself a farmer because he continually worked the land in his research. Indeed, his slim but strong body was just like that of millons of Chinese farmers, to whom he had devoted his life. 2.Yuan Longping was born in 1930 in Beijing. His parents wanted him to pursue a career in science or medicine. However, what concerned him most was that farmers often had poor harvests and sometimes even had a serious shortage of food to eat. To tackle this crisis, he chose to study agriculture and received an education at Southwest Agricultural College in Chongqing. 3.After graduating in 1953, he worked as a researcher. Yuan Longping realised that larger fields were not the solution. Instead, farmers needed to boost yields in the fields they had. How this could be done was a challenging question at the time. Yuan was convinced that the answer could be found in the creation of hybrid rice. A hybrid is across between two or more varieties of a species. One characteristic of hybrids is that they usually attain a higher yield than conventional crops. However, whether it was possible to develop a hybrid of self-pollinating plants such as rice was a matter of great debate. The common assumption then was that it could not be done. Through intense effort, Yuan overcame enormous technical difficulties to develop the first hybrid rice that could be used for farming in 1974. This hybrid enabled farmers to expand their output greatly. 4.Today, it is estimated that about 60 percent of domestic rice consumption in China is comprised of crops generated from Yuan’s hybrid strains, and his strains have allowed China’s farmers to produce around 200 million tons of rice per year. Yuan’s innovation has helped feed not just China, but many other countries that depend on rice as well, such as India and Vietnam. Because of his invaluable contributions, Yuan Longping received numerous awards both in China and abroad. 5.Given that Yuan’s hybrids made him quite wealthy, one might think he would have retired to a life of leisure. However, this is far from the case. Deep down, Yuan was still very much a farmer at heart. As a man of the soil, he cared little for celebrity or money. Instead, he made large donations to support agricultural research. 6.What impressed people most about Yuan Longping was his ongoing ability to fulfill his dreams.Long ago, he envisioned rice plants as tall as sorghum, with each ear of rice as big as a broom, and each grain of rice as huge as a peanut. He succeeded in producing a kind of rice that could feed more people at home and abroad. His latest vision for “seawater rice” also became a reality, and potentially opened up nearly one million square kilometres of salty land in China for rice production. Even in his later years, Yuan Longping was still young at heart and full of vision, and everyone was always excited to see what he would dream up next. A Pioneer for All People What are Yuan’s qualities? A Pioneer for All People Working the Land work on our own land and pursuit our dreams Group work If you are selected as the volunteer of the Longping Rice Museum ,how will you introduce Yuan Longping to the world? Group discussion identity Education/ experience influence research/ achievements dreams qualities Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to Longping Rice Museum. Now let me introduce Yuan Longping for you.First... Option 1: Make a poster with the title “ My hero—Dr. Yuan.” Option 2: Write a short passage to introduce Yuan for the musem. Assignments 二选一 Self-evaluation List Points 5 4 3 2 1 I can get key information in the reading passage by using different reading strategies. I can be aware of Yuan’s great contributions to all people. I can summarize Yuan’s personalities. I can understand the title deeply. I can share Yuan’s inspirations. Use the following chart to make a self-evaluation. Evaluation 禾下乘凉;不悔初心 Lavf57.83.100 Miaopai Lavf58.20.100 Lavf58.20.100 Lavf58.20.100 Lavf58.20.100 $$