Unit 2 Working the land
1. what are the serious problems the world faces today?
environment
population
natural resources
wars
poverty
hunger …
more than 800 million people go to bed
hungry every day. - the world health
organization (who)
one billion people in the world suffer from
hunger and malnutrition.
about 24,000 people die every day from
hunger or hunger-related causes. three-
fourths of the deaths are children under the
age of five. -
2. what can we do to solve world hunger?
control the population
open more areas for growing
increase the output of crops
step ⅳ fast reading
1 what is the main idea of each para?
para1 his dreams
para2 his personality
para3 how he thinks of himself and his achievement
para4 his biography
(4,3,1,2)
2 listen to the tape and complete the following notes about yuan long ping.
name :______________________ nationality: ____________________
age:_______________________ occupation: ____________________
education: __________________________________________________
dream : ____________________________________________________
achievement : _______________________________________________
hobbies : ___________________________________________________
answers:
yuan longping chinese 77 scientist/farmer graduated from southwest agricultural college in 1953 to export his hybrid rice so that it can be grown around the globe in 1974,developed hybrid rice ,which produces1/3 more than normal rice listening to violin music,playing mah-jong ,swimming and reading
step v please read the text again and answer these questions.