新人教必修4教案 Unit2 Working the land[Reading]

4. Understanding difficult sentences
In groups of four, analyze the structure of the difficult sentences. If you have any problems which are too difficult for you to solve do not hesitate to put them to me.
5. Reading and transferring
In pairs, read the text, find information to complete the following form. 
Facts about Yuan Longping Facts about Yuan’s super hybrid rice
age  capacity 
education  application 
major  contribution 
hobby  overseas 
ideal  future 

IV. Closing down
Closing down by doing exercises
In the last five minutes let’s do the comprehension exercises on page 10. Check your answers against your neighbour’s when you have finished.
Closing down by having a dictation
To end the period you will take a dictation. It is about Yuan Longping, “Father of Super hybrid rice”.

Yuan Longping, China's Most Famous "Farmer"
Yuan came up with the idea of hybridizing rice for the first time in the world in 1960s.
Since then, 50 percent of China's total rice cultivation fields have grown such rice,
which added some 300 billion kilograms to the country's grain output. Furrows grown on his sunburnt face, a slim figure and coiled-up trousers legs would confuse foreign reporters who came to interview the most famous
scientist in China, who would rather be  called "a farmer."Indeed, like many Chinese
farmers, Yuan in his 70s and has  devoted most of his life growing rice in paddyfields,
but unlike  those farmers, he reaps the seed from experimental fields only
 for hybridizing rice.

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