Unit 19 Modern Agriculture教案

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?
november          it is in november when we have to plough the land for the first time. the ploughing has to be done deep.
ask the ss to write a plan for their vegetable garden.
5 writing
袁隆平人物簡歷
袁隆平被譽為中國的“雜交水稻之父”. 中國農民說，吃飯靠“兩平”，一靠鄧小平----制定了生產承包責任制的政策，二靠袁隆平----發明了雜交水稻。
    袁隆平，男，1930年9月出生于北京，1953年畢業于西南農學院農學系。畢業后，一直從事農業教育及雜交水稻研究。
    在中國人民正鬧饑荒的20世紀60年代，袁隆平提出了雜交水稻的概念，這種新型水稻具有高產量的特點。XX年后，他研制成功了一種產量比一般水稻高出20%的新型水稻。
　　袁隆平一生獻身于農業研究，先后受到聯合國教科文組織、糧農組織的稱譽。袁隆平雖已年屆70歲，仍然一如既往地從事農業研究。
new words: 雜交水稻hybrid rice; 生產承包責任制system of production responsibility; 學院institute; 鬧饑荒suffer the famine; 產量yield; 聯合國教科文組織unesco,糧農組織 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.
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