杨永强课件The Student Who Asked Questions.pptVIP

* * * * * * * * Welcome to our class 河津四中 杨永强 Module4 Reading and vocabulary The Student Who Asked Questions Learning Goals: 1.Get to know the main idea of the text and the topic sentences 2.Improve our reading abilities 3.Learn something about Yuan Longping and his achievement Reading Vocabulary Look at the title  and guess  what the text is about. The Student Who Asked Questions The Student Who Asked Questions 1. Will the passage be about something or about someone? 2. Do you think that the writer wrote about how the student studied in school? Did the writer write about what the student did when he grew up? Find out the topic sentences. Para 1 Para 2 Para 3 Para 4 Para 5 Para 6 Yuan Longping is a leading figure in the rice-growing world. As a boy, he was called “the student who asked questions”. As a young teacher, he began experiments in crop breeding. He discovered a special type of rice. His discoveries increased Chinese rice production. The yield of the new hybrid rice is much greater than that of other types grown in Pakistan. Careful reading :Read the passage and decide whether the statements are True of False. 1. China produces more rice than any other country. 2. Yuan Longping asked a lot of questions at school. 3. He developed a new kind of fast-growing rice. 4. The government helped him in his research. 5. The new rice replaced vegetables in 50 thousand square kilometers. 6. The new rice is now grown in other countries, such as Pakistan. Read the passage again and find out the answers to the questions. What kind of student was Yuan Longping when he was young? What way did he think to produce rice more quickly? What did he discover? How important was the discovery？ * * * * * * * *