高中英语课件：系列课件3（第1课时）：Working the land.ppt

第一学时　Reading and Comprehension 1．Rice is a main food in all East Asian and Southeast Asian countries. What do you think would happen if tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat? It is said that there are 2.4 billion people to eat rice every day throughout the world.If tomorrow there was suddenly no rice to eat, the world would be in panic, some would die of hunger. If so, people in the south people would have to change their eating habit.They could turn to potatoes, wheat flour etc.for food, which are the bases of the traditional food in North China. 2．Do you know some facts on hunger in the world? ①Every eight seconds, a child somewhere in the world dies from starvation.More than 6 million children under the age of 5 die from starvation every year. ② The African countries suffering most severely from food shortage are Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. 3．If you had the chance to help end hunger in the world, what would you do? If I had the chance to help end hunger, I would： Invent a new kind of plant to produce more food. Find a sort of fertilizer(肥料)to give rice enough nutrition. Stop the pollution to the environment and protect the soil in the field. Task 1 快速阅读课文A Pioneer for all People，以约30词写出文章的段落大意。 温馨提示： 本文是写人记叙文， 写摘要时要突出伟人袁隆平的主要贡献。 Yuan Longping, an ordinary person but famous scientist, has been working hard to increase rice harvest without expanding the area of the field, helping China as well as the world get rid of hunger. ________________________________________________________________________ Task 2 根据课文内容，选择最佳答案。 1．Why does Yuan Longping work the land? ( ) A．Because he was born into a farmer’s family. B．Because he needs to do his research on farming. C．Because he is interested in farming. D．Because he has a slim and strong body. B 2．According to the text，in 1950，Chinese farmers could produce only ________ million tons of rice.( ) A．20　　　　　　B．200 C．56 D．500 3．The following are all Yuan