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课件网) Unit 5 Working the land My lifelong persuit is to keep all the people away from hunger. Get to know an agricultural scientist: A Pioneer for all People (Reading and Thinking) Build up your vocabulary: (Learning about language) Design a poster : World Food Day (Project) Innovation in Agriculture: (listening ) Using language: Chemical Versus Organic Farming (Using language) Reading for writing Better, Greener Lives away from the City (Reading and Thinking ) Earth University: (Video Time ) Raise awareness and knowledge of the problems and causes behind world hunger and poverty Using language: Explore the world hunger problem (Using language) Listening and Speaking Expanding your world: Amazing Methods of Agriculture (Reading ) Food is life . AMAZING METHODS OF AGRICULTURE workbook Expanding Your World (p94) Learning objectives To learn some amazing agricultural methods; To master some elegant expressions from the text; To practice basic reading skills; AMAZING METHODS OF AGRICULTURE amazing methods agriculture 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 P1 the _____ of the past farming work P2 exceptional _____changed the farming methods p3-5 the invention of _____ P6 the development of_____ P7 innovations in _____ P8 farmers are more likely to be _____ in the future difficulty drip irrigation hydroponics agricultural mahcinery technicians main idea of each part which one is a transition paragraph(过渡段） innovations drip irrigation(滴灌) Para. 3-5 hydroponics(水培) Para. 6 agricultural machinery(农机) Para. 7 Modern science and technology have helped to greatly reduce the back-breaking labour involved in farming, along with the reliance on luck and guesswork. These advances have enabled people in various countries to benefit from exceptional innovations in crop production. P2 exceptional innovations changed the farming methods P1 the difficulty of the past farming work Agriculture has come a long way from it’s ancient beginnings. Long ago, farmers would work hard on their individual plots of land, using simple tools or even their bare hands, They tended to their crops for many hours each day so that the crops grew well and did not suffer from pests or disease. Luck played a great part in farming. For example, a single storm could destroy a whole year's work, while a summer of good weather could ensure a good harvest.Where farms were located was often critical to success, too. In hilly countries, some lucky farmers would have land in the lowlands-full of deep, rich soil, while other unlucky farmers would have land on the hills with hard soil full of stones. In addition, some areas would simply be too dry or too wet to grow much of value. Which words can show the difficulty of the past farming work P1 the difficulty of the past farming work Agriculture has come a long way from it’s ancient beginnings. Long ago, farmers would work hard on their individual plots of land, using simple tools or even their bare hand ... ...
