1、Poem By Li ShenFarmers weeding at noon,Sweat down the field soon.Who knows food on a tray,Due to their toiling day.1.What are the serious problems the world faces today?Environment Population Natural resources Wars Poverty Hunger In the late 1990s,Brown,an American scholar,came up with the theory of
2、 Chinese Menace(威胁威胁),which said that in the 2030s,Chinese population will add up to 1.6 billion,and had the question who would feed the large population in China as well as in the world.More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day.-the World Health Organization(WHO)One billion people in
3、the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition.About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes.Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five.世界上每五秒就有一个儿童死于饥饿世界上每五秒就有一个儿童死于饥饿2.What can we do to solve world hunger?1.Control the population2.Open more areas for gro
4、wing3.Treasure food4.Increase the output of cropsJust at that time,a Chinese scientist declared to the world that China can solve the problem by himself and help to solve the same problem in the world.Para1 A.Dr Yuans dreams.Para2 B.Dr Yuans personality and hobbies.Para3 C.Dr Yuans life experiences.
5、Para4 D.Dr Yuans appearance and his achievement.A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLEPara.1 Dr Yuans appearance and his achievementTask 3 Careful readingQ1:What does Dr Yuan look like?He has a sunburnt face and arms and a slim,strong body.He is more like a farmer than a scientist.Q2:What is his achievement?He gr
6、ows what is called super hybrid rice,which makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields.True or False:1.Dr Yuan is more a farmer than a scientist.2.Dr Yuans kind of rice is the most suitable for Chinas farmland.FT Para 2His biographyTimeinformation19301953As a young man
7、Recent yearsnowBorn in Beijing Southwest Agriculture College Hunger was a great problem Saw the great need for increasing the rice output 200 million tons produced Circulating his knowledgePara2a.He was born into a poor farmers family.b.He graduated from Southwest Agriculture college.c.In 1950,Chine
8、se farmers produced fifty million tons of rice.d.2 billon tons of rice was produced by growing his hybrid rice.e.He searched 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.Proper order:uP
9、ut Dr Yuans biography in right order.acbedfWhich of the following description about Dr Yuans personality is not true?A.He is satisfied with his life because he is now rich and famous.B.He cares little about money and fame.C.He would rather work than lead a comfortable life.D.He enjoys a simpler life
10、 than most rich and famous people.Para.3 Dr Yuans personality and hobbies.Para 4 1.What does“Wishing for things,however,costs nothing.”mean?2.Dr Yuan has dreams not only when he is _ but also when he is_.Dreams are free and everybody can have ideas about what they would like their future life to be.
11、asleepawakePara41)The first dream2)The second dreamProduce a kind of rice that could feed more people As huge as a peanutThe first dream As tall as sorghum As big as a corn To export his rice so that it can be grown all over the worldRevision.(personal information)Name:Nationality:Age:Occupation:Edu
12、cation:Dream:Achievements:Hobbies:Personal information(Resume)Name:Nationality:Birth:Age:Occupation:Education:Personality:Dreams:Yuan LongpingChinese in 1930;in a poor family77Scientist of farmingSouthwest Agriculture College,in 1953 His first dream His second dreamcare little about money and famePe
13、rsonal informationAchievements:Hobbies:grow rice that has a high outputcirculate his knowledge abroadgive money to equip others for their research playing his violinlistening to violin musicplaying mah-jongswimmingriding his motorcycle to his rice fieldshard-workingunselfishdeterminedenergeticintell
14、igentconfidentactivemodestDiscussionWhat is happening to these people?Even if Dr.Yuans dreams come true,can this really solve starvation?If you had the chance to do something to help end hunger in the world,what would you do?How to solve hunger?making good use of the waste land developing the technology to inventing a new kind of foodimproving the quality of the soil preventing the pests from eating our crops
