Unit 5 Working the land Reading and Thinking课件-2025-2026学年高中英语人教版选择性必修第一册

该高中英语课件围绕“农业科学家袁隆平”传记阅读展开，通过古诗导入、农业步骤词汇学习（如ploughing, fertilizing）搭建主题支架，衔接人物介绍与文本分析，帮助学生在语境中理解传记体裁特征与核心内容。 其亮点在于融合语言能力（词汇积累、阅读策略训练）、思维品质（段落大意匹配、细节问题链）和文化意识（袁隆平奉献精神），如对比“father of hybrid rice”与“farmer”身份，用品质词汇列表引导学生表达。学生能提升阅读与表达能力，培养家国情怀，教师可借助分层活动高效开展教学。

Reading and Thinking Get to know agriculture scientist Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray, Thanks to their toiling day. Lead-in Do you know the farming steps? ploughing [plaʊ](犁田) seeding (播种) fertilizing[ˈfɜːtəlaɪz] (施肥) irrigating [ˈɪrɪˌɡeɪt] (灌溉) harvesting (收获) winnowing [ˈwɪnəʊ] (扬谷) Father of Hybrid Rice The winner of the Medal of the Republic An agricultural scientist Passed away on May 22, 2021 Who is the man in the photo? What is he holding in his hands? 2.Let’s learn something about Yuan Longping. Fast Reading 1.Scan the title to get some information and predict: A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE The people all around the world A person who is the first to study a new area of knowledge. What’s the text type? Biography [paiə'nir] 2.Skim the text to match the main idea with each paragraph. A Yuan conducted research and developed hybrid rice. B Yuan worked hard to fulfil his dreams. C Yuan considered himself a farmer. D Yuan decided to study agriculture. E Yuan's innovation has helped to feed more people. F Yuan cared little for fame or wealth. Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4 Paragraph 5 Paragraph 6 Task 2 Read the text again and answer the questions. 1. Why does Yuan Longping consider himself a farmer? 2. Why did Yuan decide to study agriculture? 3. What is the main advantage of hybrid crops? 4. How has Yuan's work helped China and other countries? 5. What is Yuan's latest vision? Careful Reading 思 1.Read Para.1 to answer the question. Yuan Longping,known as the“father of hybrid rice”,is 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． 1.Why did Yuan Longping consider himself a farmer? Because he continually worked the land in his research. 2.Read Para.2 to finish the following exercises. 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. 2.Why did he choose to study agriculture? Because he was born in a farmer’s family. Because he needed to do his research on farming. Because he worried about the crisis of food shortage. Because he cared little for money or celebrity. 3.Read Para.3 to complete the development of hybrid rice. 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 a cross 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 self­pollinating 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. 3. What is the main advantage of hybrid crops? One characteristic of hybrids is that they usually attain a higher yield than conventional crops. 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 greceived numerous awards both in China and abroad. 4.Read Para.4 to to answer the question. . 4. How has Yuan's work helped China and other countries? Yuan's innovation has helped feed not just China, but many other countries that depend on rice as well, such as India and Vietnam. ________ domestic rice consumption produce __________ tons of rice per year + + feed _______countries = received ________ awards 60 percent 200 million many other numerous Para.4 4. How has Yuan's work helped China and other countries? ?????? Mr.Yuan’s dreams His former vision: His later vision: -(rice plants) as tall as sorghum -(ear)as big as a broom -(grain)as huge as a peanut “seawater rice ” Read Para. 6 to find the information. His next vision: ????? 5. What is Yuan's latest vision? 16 Passagetiona 1.Discuss the qualities of Yuan Longping from the sentences. 1. He considers himself a farmer because he continually works the land in his research. ________ 2. His slim but strong body is just like that of millions of Chinese farmers, to whom he has devoted his life. ______________ 3. What concerned him most was that farmers often had poor harvests and sometimes even had a serious shortage of food to eat. ______________ devoted selfless modest kind-hearted energetic hardworking plain determined Post Reading modest kind-hearted devoted 4. Through intense effort, Yuan overcame enormous technical difficulties to develop the first hybrid rice. ____________/______________ 5. Deep down, Yuan is still very much a farmer at heart. ________ 6. He cares little for celebrity or money. ________ 7. Instead, he makes large donations to support agricultural research. _______ 8. Despite his advanced years, Yuan Longping is still young at heart and full of vision. ___________ devoted selfless modest kind-hearted energetic hardworking plain determined energetic selfless determined plain modest hardworking 2.Appreciate the writing technique of using contrast. father of hybrid rice VS farmer his parents' wish VS his own decision fields VS yields assumption VS efforts retire to leisure life VS continue to work 1. This school has ___________ thousands of bright young students over years. 2. Most students look for jobs after university __________. 3. Because of the _________ of new strains of hybrid crops, people in many parts of the world now have more food to eat. 4. Last year, this new electric power plant _________ enough energy to power the whole city. 5. It was difficult to calculate exactly how many trees had been cut down. However, a general _________ was possible. educated graduation creation create, estimation, education, generation, graduate generated estimation 1.Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the words in the box. Practice 20 Passagetiona (1)Apart from rice, what are some other important crops in China? What do you know about them? WHEAT grown on different parts of China used to make noodles and bread CORN popular in north and north-eastern China used both for food and for animal feed （2）Other than hybrid rice, what other hybrid products do you know? Can you think of new hybrid ideas? Hybrid car: petrol and electric engine Mule:a hybrid of a horse and a donkey 2.Discuss the questions to further understand “hybrid”. The most important crop besides rice is wheat, which is grown on different parts of China, and is used to make noodles and bread. Corn is also a popular crop in north and north-eastern China. It is used both for food and for animal feed. 21 Yuan Longping,known as the“father of hybrid rice”,is 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． 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. 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 a cross 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 self­pollinating 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. 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. 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. 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 later 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. Lavf58.28.100 Packed by Bilibili XCoder v2.0.2 $$