人教版高中英語必修4 Unit2 Listening on workbook 名師精品課件

1、Do you remember the poem?天蒼蒼，野茫茫，風(fēng)吹草低見牛羊。天蒼蒼，野茫茫，風(fēng)吹草低見牛羊。Can we see this beautiful scene again?Listen to the tape and tick what you hear.1. Heat and little rain.2. Turning forests into farmland.3. Overusing fields to feed farm animals.4. Using new scientific farming methods.5. Wasting water in farms

2、 and at home.6. Farming too much on poor land. Listen to the tape again and choose the best answer to each question.1. Why was North Africa important in the first century BC?A. Rome sent a lot of corn and wheat to North Africa.B. Land in North Africa was used to produce the bread that fed all of Rom

3、e.C. The desert in North Africa was famous in Rome.2. How does farmland turn into desert?A.Wind blows away dry soil and then the land becomes sandy.B. Hot weather makes the land become sandy. C. Too many plants can make farmland become desert.3. How are new farming methods helping to stop the desert

4、 in Xinjiang?A. The methods let the farmers use less water.B. The methods let farmers grow the same amount of crops in less land.C. The methods do not use fertilizers.1. Look at the map and the sentences below. Which area do you think the sentences describe? Write your guesses next to the sentences.

5、 1) _ _ Ancient farmers in this area used teams of oxen for ploughing the fields.2) _ _ Farming here was famous for developing a system of watering fields from the River Nile.3) _ _ This area has a system of growing three crops together. The crops are not only good for food but also help make the so

6、il fertile.4) _ _ Farmers here cut large steps into the sides into the hillsides and created islands to get more land for growing crops.2. Now listen to this students report on ancient farming and match the descriptions with the sites on the map.1) B Middle East2) A Egypt3) C North America4) D Centr

7、al America3. Listen to the tape again and discuss the following questions in groups of four.1) How do you think advances in farming methods influenced early cultures? Brainstorm some of the ways that a culture might change because of the improvements in farming.2) What do you know about farming developme