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选择性必修一Unit 5 Working the land
Using Language
Explore the world hunger
Learning objectives：
By the end of the class, you will be able to:
1. learn about a severe hunger problem and its main causes as well as solutions to eliminate hunger.
2. learn to use the listening strategies in the listening process.
3. learn to express ideas about hunger problem and state reasons.
Part 1
Pre-listening
Pre-listening
Task 1: Answer the following questions.
What problem does she suffer from
What is the definition of hunger
world hunger
food deprivation
undernourishment
Pre-listening
What do you think of world hunger
Extremely shocking.
Global Hunger Index Results 2025
Now it’s time to listen to an interview on World Food Day and learn about the detailed information of global issue of hunger and corresponding solutions.
Part 2
While-listening
Listening tips: How can we listen for a clearer goal
Before you listen to the audio, look at the questions first, and then locate position of required information. While you are listening, take some notes quickly. You can write down some abbreviations, or initials to simplify the expression.
Task 2: Learn about the name of organization and its mission.
1. What is the full name of FAO
2. What is the aim of goal of FAO ( )
A. To end hunger.
B. To influence production.
C. To Talk about hunger.
Tip1: Pay attention to the spellings through pronunciation and use abbreviations and initials to quickly mark down the words.
FAO stands for Food and Agriculture Organization.
And our aim is simple—to eliminate world hunger.
Food
Agriculture Oragnization
Full name of FAO is ______ and _________________________.
Task 3: Learn about the causes and effect.
3. Complete the mind-map of influencing factors of crop yield.
4. Why do many people eat not well according to the material ( )
A. They don’t like nutritious food.
B. They can’t afford nutritious food.
C. They have no time to cook food.
D. They don’t know what healthy food is.
Influencing factors of crop yield
Natural-related Factor disaters
Human-related Factor
Social-related Factor
Tip 2:When there are many factors, we need pay attention to associative logic of factor-introducing signal words and notice transitional words like “what about” to introduce a new topic.
Task 3:Learn about the causes and effect.
5. Why does war lead to mass hunger ( )
A. It reduces the number of researchers.
B. It affects food production and transportation.
C. It makes people lose interest in eating.
D. It increases the price of healthy food.
6. What does the FAO think about healthy food ( )
A. It is only for rich people.
B. Everyone has the right to it.
C. It is hard to produce.
D. People should grow it by themselves.
Tip 3:Pre-read the questions and underline the “locators” and “core of the questions”.
Task 3: Learn about the causes and effect.
3. Complete the mind-map of influencing factors of crop yield.
Influencing factors of crop yield
Natural-related Factor disaters
Human-related Factor
Social-related Factor
The So I guess things like droughts, floods, and climate change are all major factors in this..... And another factor is poverty...What about wars I’ve seen many researchers say that it directly leads to mass hunger.
Droughts
Floods
Climate change
Poverty
Wars
Task 3: Learn about the causes and effect.
4. Why do many people eat not well according to the material ( )
A. They don’t like nutritious food.
B. They can’t afford nutritious food.
C. They have no time to cook food.
D. They don’t know what healthy food is.
Paraphrase（同义转述）
And another factor is poverty. There is strong evidence to suggest that many people just can’t afford to eat well.
can’t afford to eat well.
Task 3: Learn about the causes and effect.
Tip3:Pre-read the questions and underline the “locators” and “core of the questions”.
5. Why does war lead to mass hunger ( )
A. It reduces the number of researchers.
B. It affects food production and transportation.
C. It makes people lose interest in eating.
D. It increases the price of healthy food.
...Our research indicates that wars can heavily affect food production and transportation, meaning that millions of people have to go hungry.
food
production
transportation
Task 3: Learn about the causes and effect.
Tip3:Pre-read the questions and underline the “locators” and “core of the questions”.
6. What does the FAO think about healthy food ( )
A. It is only for rich people.
B. Everyone has the right to it.
C. It is hard to produce.
D. People should grow it by themselves.
The FAO believes everyone should have the right to healthy food.
have the right to healthy food.
Task 4: Task 4: Listen for facts and note down supporting evidences
according to listening material.
Tip 4:While listening, note the key words like “figures,evdience,research and etc.” at the start of a sentence used as supporting evidence .
Facts Supporting evidence
According to our latest figures,
There is strong evidence to suggest that
Our research indicates that
According to our latest figures, stands at around 11% of the world’s population;There is strong evidence to suggest that many people just can't afford to eat well;Our research indicates that wars can heavily affect food production and transportation.
stands at around 11% of the world’s population;
many people just can't afford to eat well;
wars can heavily affect food production and transportation.
Task 5: Listening for specific measures. (Pay attention to the verb phrases.)
David: Well, the UN is making efforts to ________________, and the FAO _______________called Climate-Smart Agriculture, which helps countries to _____________________. However, every country needs to focus on __________________________________, too, which can often benefit the whole world. Like China, for example, whose development of hybrid rice has greatly _______________________ in many other countries. And, of course, ____________ must be eliminated. And don't forget that we as individuals can also make a difference: _________________________________, and _________________.
Host: David Bond, thank you very much. Just a quick message to our listeners: you can find more information on world hunger on the FAO website ...
reduce climate change
runs a project
develop sustainable agriculture
making new achievements in agriculture
increased rice production
global conflict
buy food that supports the environment
never waste food
Part 3
Post-listening
Task 6: Watch a short video to learn and add more causes and measures
and take some notes down as quickly as you can.
Check your answers:
Causes:
1. Wars and __________________________________ 战争和环境、经济的或健康危机
2. Malnutrition________________ 全世界营养不良
3. Food___________食物浪费
4. Poor ________________________________ 治理不足及基础设施规划不合理
5. Unfair______________不公平的全球贸易
6. Climate________________________ 气候变化与自然灾害
7. Social___________社会不稳定
environmental,economic or health crises
worldwide
waste
governance and poor infrastructure
global trade
changes and natural disasters
inequality
Check your answers:
Measures :
1. Help developing countries ________ ___________________帮助发展中国家提高他们的粮食产量
2. Consume __________________ 负责地消费食物
3. Buy ______________________________买我们需要的东西以避免食物浪费
4. Collaborate ____________________________________________________ 与食品银行合作和地方组织改善大多数人获得食物的机会
5. Organise________________________________ 组织班级义卖和公益讲座
6. Accumulate___________________________________________________通过纪录片或书籍积累科普材料
to improve their food production
food responsibly
what we need to avoid food waste
with food banks and local organizations to improve access to food
class charity sales and public speeches
popular science materials through documentaries and books
Task 7: Discuss with your partner about school campaigns to celebrate
World Food Day and you can use the following sentence patterns for
reference..
The following expressions might help you.
Referring to common knowledge:
As we all know, World Food Day falls on......
It’s common knowledge that ......
Most people are aware that ......
We can start the campaign by ...
Referring to measures:
To make the campaign practical, we can launch ......
One effective measure for the campaign is to ......
We could organize a “ ...... ” as part of the campaign......
For the campaign, another measure is to .......
Sample answer:
Hey Tom, our teacher said we need to plan a World Food Day campaign for our class. Any thoughts
Sure! As we all know, World Food Day falls on October 16th. We should do something that actually makes classmates care.
Totally! It’s common knowledge that a lot of food gets wasted in our school cafeteria—like half-eaten lunches thrown away.
That’s useful!
Peer--evaluation
Items Yes
No
1 Does your partner closely focus on the goal of “discussing school campaigns for World Food Day”
2 Does your partner give any practical school activities to celebrate World Food Day
3 Does your partner use useful and proper expressions to share his/her ideas
Part 4
Homework
Choose one of the hunger problems below that you are interested in and search some information on the Internet about the causes and measures of it and write a composition around 100 words.
Climate change & Natural Disasters
气候变化及自然灾害
Poor governance and infrastructure
治理不善及设施落后

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