1、Unit5 Using Language Reading Agriculture supplies food,clothing,medicine and employment all over the world.It provides security to the human population.Agriculture impacts on our lives in many ways.For instance,we use agriculture to raise animals and grow food,such as tomatoes,carrots,meat and eggs.
2、The importance of agriculture make us less dependent on other foreign countries,provides food and shelter and also provides us with income to the farmer and revenue to the government.Why is agriculture important to society?How does agriculture impact on our lives?If current trends continue,the numbe
3、r of hungry people will reach 840 million by 2030.Explore the world hunger problem12 percent of the worlds 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
4、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 t
5、uberculosis 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 so
6、cieties 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
7、hunger has been Sub-Saharan Africa.While the hunger rate in this region fell 10 percent from 1992-2014,the number of hungry people has actually risen during this time period,from 175.7 million to 220 million.The world produces enough food to feed everyone.Food availability per capita has increased f
8、rom approximately 2220 kcal per person per day in the 1960s to 2790 kcals per person per day in 2006.Poverty is the number one cause of world hunger.The World Bank estimates that 10.7 percent of the worlds population,or 767 million people,lived on less than$1.90 per day in 2013.Over 75 percent of th
9、e world poorest grow their own food.This causes widespread food insecurity in developing countries,as drought,climate change and natural disasters can easily cut off a familys food supply.Information about hunger and food securityExplore the world hunger problemThe United Nations set up the F o o d
10、a n d A g r i c u l t u r a l Organization(FAO)in the year 1945.The main objective behind t h e e s t a b l i s h m e n t o f t h i s organization was to attack hunger and eradicate the bane of hunger from the global population.The FAO also aims at providing food t h a t i s n u t r i t i o n a l l
11、y h i g h i n quality and increasing production of agricultural crops.It was in the year 1979 that a big decision was taken to implement the World Food Day action plan.On October 16th,1981,the first World Food Day was celebrated,and from then on,the day is being celebrated across the world annually.
12、Explore the world hunger problemIn pairs,discuss what you can see in the photos and how you think each photo relates to world hunger.What are all the possible causes of world hunger that you can think of?What can people and countries do to help alleviate these causes?Finish Activity 2 and Activity 3
13、 on Page 54.思考思考Explore the world hunger problemWorld Food Day ActivitiesSuggested Answers1.Many farmers welcomed them as a great way to fight crop diseases and increase production.2.Their long-term use can sometimes harm both the land and peoples health.3.Crops grown with them usually grow too fast
14、 to be rich in nutrition.4.Organic farming is simply farming without using any chemicals.Organic farmers focus on keeping their soil rich and free of diseases throughnatural means.1.Why did many farmers welcome the introduction of chemical farming?2.What concerns many people about the use of pestici
15、des?3.What is one problem with t h e u s e o f c h e m i c a l ferilisers?4.How is organic farming different from chemical farming?5.Different crops are grown because they put important minerals back into the ground,making it ready for the next batch of grops.6.The goal of using organic farming meth
16、ods is to grow good food while avoiding damage to the environment or to peoples health.Yes,I think this goal can be reached.Farmers worked for centuries without using any kinds of chemicals and without harming the environment,and the food they produced was just fine.5.Why do organic farmers change t
17、he kind of crop grown in a field every year?6.What is the goal of using organic farming methods?Do you think it can be reached?Why or why not?ParagraphMain IdeaDetail1-2DPesticides can kill helpful _.Some pesticides have been _ because of the _.Crops grown with chemical fertilisers usually _ to be f
18、ull of _.3AMany organic farmers use _ _ as fertiliser.Match the main ideas(A-D)below with the paragraphs.Then complete the sentences in the table.A What organic farming isB Why man-made chemicals are still used infarmingC Organic methods for producing rich soilD The problems with chemical farmingbac
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20、ld _.They also plant crops that use _ of the soil to help keep it rich.5BOrganic farming is nowhere near being able to meet the high _ Match the main ideas(A-D)below with the paragraphs.Then complete the sentences in the table.A What organic farming isB Why man-made chemicals are still used infarmin
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25、不使用化肥的 _adj.及其重要的，完全必要的 _ n.矿物质_接下来；转而；轮流，依次_n.肥料 _ n.贫穷，贫困 _ 在贫困中 _n.杂货店 _n.&adj.供选择的；二选一 _adv.要不，或者，用另一种方法 _例如，比如 _n.方面，层面 fertilisernutritionnutritionalnutritiousnourishmentpovertyin povertygroceryalleviateorganicessentialmineralin turnalternativealternativelyfor instanceaspectnourishWords and Expressions in This PartThank you!
