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课件网) Unit5 Working the Land Learning About Language(1) : Vocabulary In this lesson, you will: discover the meaning and usage of the new words related to agricultural innovations according to the context; expand your vocabulary bank with the strategies of word-formation; use new words to introduce new innovations in agriculture. learning objectives Use some topic words to summarize what we have learnt about Yuan Longping and his innovation. Review for example: shortage tackle intense overcome expand... Review At that time, farmers had a serious shortage of food to eat. To tackle this crisis, Yuan Longping chose to study agriculture. Yuan was convinced that the answer could be found in the creation of hybrid rice. Through intense effort, Yuan overcame enormous technical difficulties to develop hybrid rice. This hybrid rice enabled farmers to expand their output greatly. It is estimated that about 60% of domestic rice consumption in China is comprised of crops generated from Yuan’s hybrid. After that, one might think he would have retired to a life of leisure. But as a man of soil, he cared little about celebrity or money. Yuan had devoted his life to millions of Chinese farmers. reason effort result comment agriculture attitude& effort result& influence was convinced intense effort overcome difficulties expand the output It's estimated that is comprised of generate have a shortage of food to tackle this crisis retire to a life of leisure a man of soil care little about celebrity deveote sth to reason comment Activity1 - Presentation Ex1. Replace the underlined words with the correct forms of the words we have reviewed. (Book P52) Activity1 - Presentation 1 understand new words in context _____ _____ _____ 1. To deal with this crisis, he chose to study agriculture. 2. He is a very good actor and he commits himself to every role that he takes on. 3. Yuan Longping strongly believed that the answer could be found in the creation of hybrid rice. 4. Yuan Longping, through intense effort, solved enormous difficulties and developed the first hybrid rice that could be used for farming. 5. This hybrid enabled farmers to increase their output greatly. 6. Students are encouraged to try a variety of free-time activities to reduce the intense stress from studying. tackle devotes was convinced Activity1 - Presentation overcame expand leisure _____ _____ _____ Have a try: Add more topic words to the vocabulary bank Explain them in English Activity1 - Presentation Instead, farmers need to boost yields in the fields they had. The common assumption was that it could not be done. One characteristics of the hybrids is that they usually attain a higher yield than conventional crops. His later vision for “seawater rice” also became a reality. _____ _____ _____ _____ get, traditional belief dream, came true result reason result attitude expand agriculture attitude& effort result& influence was convinced intens ... ...
