Discuss what qualities a great person should have.

Step 3 Pre - reading

Show the students some pictures and ask the question

What is happening to these people in East Asian and Southeast Asian countries?

Step4 group work

Ask students:

If you had the chance to do one thing to help end hunger in the world, what would you do?

How to solve hunger?

making good use of the waste land，developing the technology to make a kind of fertilizer to give rice enough nutrition and let them grow quickly and have high product，inventing a new kind of food，improving the quality of t he soil，preventing the pests from eating our crops

Reading:

Step I read for details

Find out the personal details about Yuan Longpin

Name:

Born:

Occupation:

Education:

Dream:

Achievements:

Hobbies:

Step II.further Reading.

1. What does Dr Yuan look like?

2. Why did Dr Yuan want to increase the rice output when he was young?

3. Does he help rid the world of hunger?

4.what do you think of him?