Unit 1 Reading and Thinking P1-4ppt课件 2020-2021学年人教版新教材选择性必修第一册.pptx

1、 ReadingThinking P1-4 Unit 1 People of Achievement Pre-reading Read and discuss: What kind of person makes great discoveries? Which is more important for making a great discovery, or ? Most great discoverers are brilliant and hard-working. Many are perfectionists who are unwilling to accept anything

2、 but the best. I think both talent and effort are important for making discoveries. If a person doesnt have some talent, it is possible that even though he or she works hard, it will be difficult to succeed. on the other hand, people- even those with great talent -rarely achieve anything without put

3、ting in efforts. While-reading Scan the text and find descriptive words about Tu Youyou. Some descriptive words about Tu Youyou: a and scientist Pay attention to the descriptive words in a passage. These will help you form a better impression of the subject described in the passage. Circle the answe

4、rs below. 1.Where would you most likely find this passage? A In a blog. B In a book. C In a letter. D In a newspaper. 2.Passagers like this are most often written in _ and _. A the active voice/offer many opinions B the first person/talk about feelings C both active and passive voices/mostly contain

5、 facts Circle the answers below. 3. Which two pieces of information were not included in the passage? A A quote from Tu Youyou. B The details of how artemisinin was discovered. C Tu Youyous important contributions other than the discovery of artemisinin. D Tu Youyous personal life. E Tu Youyous road

6、 to discovering artemisinin. F What Tu Youyou was awarded. G Why artemisinin is an important discovery. Introduction Main Body Conclusion Read 600, 000;100,000;2,000; 280,000; 380;190。 These numbers suggest three things: how big a health problem malaria is, how much time Tu Youyou spent in looking f

7、or a possible new treatment for malaria, and how patient and persistent Tu Touyou and her team were to tackle the disease. 4 She is considered a great person because through her efforts many lives have been saved. Pair work: Discuss how people can achieve success. professional knowledgeskills Persev

8、erance Teamwork .? Language points P2-4 Unit 1 People of Achievement Read the sentences from the text and pay attention to the new words. 1.In 1969, she became the head of the project in Beijing, and decided to review ancient Chinese medical texts to find traditional botanical treatments for the dis

9、ease. 2.Her team examined over 2, 000 old medical texts, and evaluated 280,000 plants for their medical properties. 3.They then tried boiling fresh wormwood, and using the liquid obtained from this to treat malaria, but this did not work, either. 4.Using a lower temperature to draw out the extract,

10、she found a substance that worked. 1 1 Read and write: _ cook something in very hot water _ relating to plants _ qualities or characteristics of something _ a kind of substance that flows freely, such as water or milk _ physical material that exists boil botanical property liquid substance From thei

11、r research, they discovered and tested 380 distinct ancient Chinese medical treatments that showed promise in the fight against malaria. 2 句意：在他们的研究中，他们发现并测试了 380种不同的中国古代医疗方法，这些方法有 望用以抗击疟疾。 distinct adj. 不同的；清楚的 indistinct adj. 不明了的；朦胧的 distinction n. 区别，差别 distinction between A and B A与B的区别 【词形变化】

12、1.字迹模糊不清。 The lettering is fuzzy and indistinct. 2.该法案对儿童和成人一视同仁。 The Act makes no distinction between children and adults. 3. 他的声音很平静，但每个字都很清楚。 His voice was quiet but every word was distinct. 4.雄鸟头上有独特的黑白斑纹。 The male bird has distinctive black and white markings on its head. 【例句赏析】 Tu Youyou and h

13、er team members even insisted on testing the medicine on themselves to make sure that it was safe. 3 句意：屠呦呦和她的团队成员甚至坚持在自己身 上测试药物，以确保它是安全的。 insist on/upon 主张，强调；坚持 insist that . 坚持，主张 夏洛克仍然坚持要一磅安东尼奥的肉。 Shylock still insisted upon having a pound of Antonios flesh. 她坚持要邀请他参加晚会。 She insisted that he (sh

14、ould) be invited to the party. 【例句赏析】 Upon hearing that she had been awarded the Nobel Prize, she said, . 4 句意：当听到自己被授予诺贝尔奖时，她说 道 在本句中，“介词+v.-ing”构成介词短语，在句 中作时间状语。Upon还可换为介词on, 表示一 件事紧接着另一件事而发生。意为“在的 时候；当时；一就” 。 【例句赏析】 1. 一毕业他就加入了一个小型律师事务所。 Upon graduating, he joined a small law firm.。 2. 我写完这篇作文时，就

15、感到这是我写过的最 好的作文。 Upon finishing it, I was struck by the feeling that it was the best composition I had ever written. 。 3. 女排姑娘们一回国，就收到了赞誉和鲜花。 Upon their return to the country, the girls volleyball team received praise and flowers. 4. 布鲁斯出示卡片后，马上就有人把我们领上 楼了。 On/Upon Bruces sending in his card, we were

16、 instantly shown up. 2 Read and fill in the blanks with words that have the same roots. 1 The two flowers are quite distinct from one another, so it is easy to make a _ between them. 2 Scientists need to _ how the new material stands up to wear and tear to prove how valuable it is. 3 A talented scie

17、ntist well known for his _ to his country, Huang Danian committed himself to his research in geophysics. distinction commitment value 2 Read and fill in the blanks with words that have the same roots. 4 A: Did you come to any conclusions? B: Yes, we _ that by drawing out the extract at a low tempera

18、ture, we could find the substance that we needed to complete the experiment. 5 She spends a lot of time _ her patients dreams. This analysis is very helpful, explaining their daily behaviour very well. concluded analysing 3 Read and fill: insist obtain objective acknowledge apparently crucial Lu Xun

19、, _ as one of the greatest modern writers in China, was born in Shaoxing Zhejiang Province in 1881. In 1904, he went to Japan and became a medical student, with the _ of improving peoples health and saving lives. However, he changed his mind when he saw in a photo a Chinese man about to be killed by

20、 a Japanese soldier. It struck him that the other Chinese men in the photo _ acknowledged objective apparently did not care about what was happening to their fellow countrymen. From this, he concluded that the _ problem in China was not physical illness, but the spiritual illness of people at that t

21、ime. Following this, he quit medical school. When he returned to China in 1908, he _ a teaching job. In 1917, a friend _ that he help write for a magazine called New Youth. That was how his first famous short story A Madmans Diary got published. 3 Read and fill: insist obtain objective acknowledge apparently crucial crucial obtained insisted