1).What's the main food in Canada and USA:

　　----- potatoes and bread

　　2).What is the main food in South America:

　　----- corn/maize

　　3 )What is the main food in Southeast Asian countries:

　　 ----- rice

　　2 Show the students some pictures and ask the question

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

　　Then show more news like that:

　　International Facts on Hunger and Poverty (2002)

　　1)Every 8 seconds, a child somewhere in the world dies from starvation.

　　2)More than 800 million people in the world suffer from malnutrition (营养不良)---799 million of them are from the developing world. More than 153 million of them are under the age of 5.

　　At last ask the students to discuss:

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

　　Encourage the students to tell their opinions, Then give a conclusion:

　　The only way to solve the food shortage problem is to increase the output of the grain crop per land area through the advancement of science and technology.

　　1. lead the students to pay attention to the people---Yuan Longping

　　Ask : What do you know about him?

　　--------Father of Hybrid Rice

　　Then lead to the topic of the reading passage. A Pioneer For All People

　　Step 3 Listening

　　Listen to the tape, try to find out some information of the hero.

　　Name ____________

　　Age ____________

　　Job _____________

　　Education _________

　　Achievement _______

Hobbies __________