Unit 2     Working the land

it’s a great pity that…should i / we…?it’s better to…this is good value because…if i have a choice i’d choose…becausewhat is the advantage of…?you need to…in pairs you are to make up a dialogue to argue each other into or out adopting organic farming. i will argue with your monitor, liang bochao. get started. iii. guided writing 1.          writing a posterwriting a poster which includes all the information about the uses of computer so that you will encourage more farmers to buy and use. you are asked to base your poster on the overall pattern of the article you learned organic farming. limit your poster to between 200 and 250 words.2.          writing a speech write a speech for professor yuan longping. he is to attend an international conference on modern agriculture. you may also make use of the library and network resources for the task. iv. further applying  finding informationread online to find as much information as possible about professor yuan longping and his research group. share your findings with you partner next time you are here. writing a reportgo back home to interview your parents or your grandparents about china’s agriculture, its past and present situations. write a report in english in about 500 words as a weekly project. acting a text playturn either one of the two articles into a text play. rehearse it and play it in front of the class. the play shall last at least 10 minutes.iv. closing downclosing down by filling a formto end the period please fill in the form below.what is organic farming?definitioncharacteristicspotentialsclosing down by imagingimagine and write about what the agriculture will be like 50 years from now in the future. use your imagination to compete for “wild thinking prize”.the fourth period listeningstep 1 pre-listening1. talk about the the differences between organic farming and fertilizer farming. and show the picture2. introduce some new words in the listening passagevalley  competitor  determinedpour  carrotscucumbers   pumpkins  attack  spread like wildfire  sigh  solidstep 2 listening listen to the tape and answer the following questions:1. what does the passage tell us?2. what do the words in the first column mean?crops grown means how their crops grow. well or bad?      fertilizer means what kind of fertilizer they use. organic or chemical?