人教修订版高中一年级 ( 下 )

Unit 19

Unit 19 Modern agricultureUnit 19 Modern agriculture

1 warming up

spring

summer

autumn winter

2 Pre reading

1 What can you see in the picture?

2 What do you know about Jia Sixie?

3 While reading

1) Fast readingWhy do we consider Jia Sixie as an agriculture scientist?

2) Careful reading The life of farmer is busy. Each month there is a lot of work to do: ploughing, sowing, weeding, harvesting, fertilising and so on. What advice does Jia Sixie give farmers?

Because he spent his time on research into agriculture & wrote a book called Qimin Yaoshu, which is about both farming & gardening.

  Advice

On time of farming

at the correct time…  

On soil

 

 

 

   

 

On ploughing 

 

On changing crops

 

On plants in the same field

 

go against…at the wrong time

to grow different plants next to each other

the best harvest is reached

examine the soil…carefully

condition…not good, …improve…

before sowing & planting crops…

clean & remove the weeds

sheep or cows

land should be ploughed

plough deep…plough less deep

autumn…deeper than spring ploughing

1 Farmers’ proverbs & sayingsThe wisdom of farmers about the weather & farming is collected in many popular proverbs & passed on from generation to generation. The following proverbs tell you sth. About the weather din England. Are they true for China?

4 Post reading

1 No weather is ill, if the wind be still.2 Yellow sky at sunset, wind in the morrow.3 Rain before seven, clear by eleven.4 April showers bring May flowers.5 Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.6 The best ground bears weeds as well as flowers.7 Never cackle unless you lay.

2 Imagine you have a vegetable garden & you want to grow beans, cabbages, onions, tomatoes & sunflowers. What will you do in each month of the year?

4 Post reading

It is in November when we have to plough the land for the first time. The ploughing has to be done deep.

November

Write a plan for your vegetable garden.

         袁隆平被誉为中国的“杂交水稻之父” . 中国农民说，吃饭靠“两平”，一靠邓小平 ----制定了生产承包责任制的政策，二靠袁隆平 ----发明了杂交稻。         袁隆平，男，１９３０年９月出生于北京，１９５３年毕业于西南农学院农学系。毕业后，一直从事农业教育及杂交水稻研究。         在中国人民正闹饥荒的 20世纪 60年代，袁隆平提出了杂交水稻的概念，这种新型水稻具有高产量的特点。 10年后，他研制成功了一种产量比一般水稻高出 20%的新型水稻。　　袁隆平一生献身于农业研究，先后受到联合国教科文组织、粮农组织的称誉。袁隆平虽已年届７０岁，仍然一如既往地从事农业研究。

袁隆平人物简历

writing

hybrid rice;System of Production Responsibility;institute;suffer the famine;Yield;UNESCO, FAO.

Possible version:

Yuan Longping is known as China’s “father of hybrid rice”. It’s said that in China, we eat depending on “Two Ping” ---- Deng Xiaoping, who made the policy of System of Production Responsibility, & Yuan Longping, who invented hybrid rice. Yuan Longping, who was born in September, 1930, graduated from Agriculture Department in Southwest Agricultural Institute. He has been working on agriculture education & the research into hybrid rice since he left the institute. In the 1960s, when China was suffering serious famine, he came up with the idea of hybrid rice, which has a high yield. Ten years later, he succeeded in inventing a new species that produced a 20 percent higher yield than common types of rice. Yuan devoted himself to the research into agriculture, & was honored by UNESCO & FAO. Although he is 70 years old, he is still working on the research into agriculture.

Homework:

Write a passage introducing Yuan Longping.Consult the websites:http://Agri-history.net/agriculturists/jsxhttp://agri-history.net/history/chapter03www.yjsy.echu.edu.cn/jszj/子部-魏晋天下/齐民要术