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1. Welcome !

2. Lead-in Enjoy a Poem By Li Shen Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray, Due to their toiling（hard） day. Treasure our rice and don’t waste it.

3. rice

5. What can we do to solve the food shortage(缺少) problem? A good way is to increase the output of the crop . To grow a different kind of rice.

6. super hybrid rice

7. A Pioneer For All People Father of Hybrid Rice his sunburnt face and slim arms

8. Vocabulary Find a word or phrase for them. • Brown skin from spending too • much time in the sun. sunburnt 2. To become larger in size, number or amount. expand 3. To send things to foreign countries for sale. export

9. 4. would prefer to would rather 5. pleased by having what one wants or needs. satisfied with 6. because of thanks to

10. Fast reading As a young man, why did Yuan Longping want to increase the rice output? Because he saw great need for increasing the rice output.

11. Match the following headings with the right paragraphs.

12. Careful Reading Yuan Longping Appearance His________ face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like Chinese farmers. sunburnt Achievements ★ In 1974, he became the first _________________ in the world to grow high output rice. agricultural pioneer

13. in 1930 graduate from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953 care little about fame or money listen to violin music, play mah-jong, swim and read

14. ________ ★ Long ago,he dreamed of producing a kind of rice that could ____ more people. ★ Now, many years later, his dream is to ______his rice so that it can be grown around the globe. Dreams feed export

15. What’s the advantage of Yuan’s super hybrid rice? To produce 1/3 more of the crop in the same fields; More than 60%of the rice in China is from this hybrid strain（品种）.

16. Further reading Para2: What does the word “battle” refer to in the second paragraph? A. The low rice output. B. Ridding the world of hunger. C. Fighting against farming. D. The freedom to do research.

17. Para3: Translate it into Chinese. He believes that a person with too much money has more rather than fewer troubles. 他认为，一个人有了太多的钱，麻烦 只会更多，而不是少。

18. Para4: Which sentence has the same meaning as the sentence below: One needn’t spend any money in just dreaming, you know, it’s free. Just dreaming for things, however, costs nothing. 梦想是不化本钱的。

19. The title of our passage is “A Pioneer For All People”. What’s the meaning of it? • Dr. Yuan is the first person to grow super hybrid rice. • The rice he developed benefits people all over the world.

20. Output: discussion What do you think are the main reasons for Dr Yuan Longping’s success? Dr. Yuan is a scientist and farmer who has strong determination. who works hard. who cares little about ________________. who has great _______________. who is patient and selfless. fame or money dreams So his sucuss is based on ______________. determination, hard work, great dreams….

21. Name: Nationality: Year of birth: Appearance: Education: personality: Achievements: Dreams: Hobbies: Yuan Longping Chinese 1930 sunburnt, slim, strong southwest Agricultural College care little about money and fame super hybrid rice produce; export violin, mah-jong, swimming writing

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