1、Welcome,Working the land,李 越,Questionnaire,How many of you were born in countryside,900 Million,Questionnaire,Who is the most famous farmer in China ?,Father of Hybrid Rice,Brief Introduction Yuan Longping is known as Chinas “father of hybrid rice”. Yuan Longping, who was born in September, 1930, gr

2、aduated from Agriculture Department in Southwest Agricultural Institute. He has been working on agriculture education & the research into hybrid rice since he left the institute. In the 1960s, when China was suffering from serious famine, he came up with the idea of hybrid rice, which has a high yie

3、ld. Ten years later, he succeeded in inventing a new species that produced a 20 percent higher yield than common types of rice. Yuan devoted himself to the research into agriculture, & was honored by UNESCO (聯(lián)合國(guó)教科文組織）. Although he is 74 years old, he is still working on the research into agriculture

4、.,Sunburnt,Knowledgeable,Pioneer,Slim,Strong Body,“Superman”,Honorabl,A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE,Listen to the record and finish the exercise,Task 1,listening,a,c,b,e,d,f,a.He was born into a poor farmers family . b.He graduated from Southwest Agriculture college. c.In 1950,Chinese farmers produced 5.

5、5 billion tons of rice. d.20 billon tons of rice was produced by growing his hybrid rice. e.He searched for a way to increase rice outputs without expanding the area of fields. f.He helps rid the world of hunger by circulating his knowledge in less developed countries.,Put Dr Yuans biography in righ

6、t order,Task 2 Scanning,Find out the main idea of each paragraph.,A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE,Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.,Name: Nationality: Birth: Appearance Occupation: Education: Dreams: Achievements: Hobbies:,3、Intensive Reading,Personal information (Resume),Name: Nation

7、ality: Birth: Appearance: Occupation: Education: Personality: Dreams:,Yuan Longping,Chinese,1930,Sunburnt face and slim, strong body,Scientist of farming,Southwest Agriculture College,His first dream,His second dream,Care little about money and fame,Personal information,Achievements,Hobbies,grow ric

8、e that has a high output,circulate his knowledge abroad,give money to equip others for their research,listening to violin music,playing mah-jong,swimming,reading,Discussion,What will happen without Dr Yuan?,It is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice every day throughout the world.,Hung

9、er,0.8 billion people in the world suffer from hunger.,0.3 billion of them are children.,Every year 5.6 million children die of hunger.,Every day 18,000 children die of hunger.,If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world, what would you do ?,The measures taken to deal with

10、hunger,Invent a new kind of plant to produce more food.,Find a sort of fertilizer to give rice enough nutrition.,Stop the pollution to the environment and protect the soil in the field., etc.,Life Inspirations (人生感悟),Just dreaming for things costs nothing.,One dream is not always enough, especially,for a person who loves and c