1、Unit 1 Reading and Thinking 点击此处可添加副标题 1. Who is the woman in the photo? 2. What is happening in this photo? 1. She is Tu youyou. 2.Tu Youyou is awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize. Pre-reading hard-working devoted determined passionate creative selflessness have strict attitude 1. What kind of peron makes
2、 great discoveries? genious While-reading 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. How do you know that? We can know according to the title and the date. 3. What do you thnk will be talk about in the passage? Tu youyou was aw
3、arded the Nobel Prize for her discovery of artemisinin and how she discovered it. Para1 Para 2-3 Para 4 The event and the significance of the discovery. How did Tu youyou and her team find the artemisinin The significance of the event 4. Read the passage quickly and match the main idea with each par
4、agraph. 4. Read the 1st and the 4st paragraphs, and answer the following questiones. (1) Whats the event? (2) What is the significance of the disovery of artemisinin? 4. Read the 1st and the 4st paragraphs, and answer the following questiones. (1) Whats the event? This years Nobel Prize for physiolo
5、gy or medicine has been awarded to Tu youyou(co winner), whose reaserch led to the discovery of artemisinin. 4. Read the 1st and the 4st paragraphs, and answer the following questiones. (2) What is the significance of the disovery of artemisinin? Artemisinin has saved hundreds of thousands of lives
6、and has improved the health for milloons of people. It proves the grea value of traditiional Chinese medicine. It is an honour for Chinas scientific reaservh and Chinese medicine to be spread around the world. Born in Ningbo 1930 1967 1971 1955 1969 2000 280,000 380 190 Eamined over 2000 old medical
7、 texts discover and tested 380 distinct ancient Chinese medical treatments failed more than 190 times finally succeed evaluate plants for medical properties Graduated from university Chosen in the first researchers decided to review ancient Chinese medical text Awarded Nobel Prize Read the para2 and
8、 3 carefully. Circle the numbers and tell what they represent. 2015 Read the Para 4 and complete the flow chart. Tu Youyous team examined _, and evaluate _ _. over 2,000 old medical texts 280,000 plants for their medical properties They found a medical text suggesting _ _. using the extract from swe
9、et wormwood to treat a fever They tested _ _. a collection of dried wormwood leaves, but failed They tried _ _, but _. failed They used a _ the sweet wormwood extract. lower temperature to draw out They tested the medicine _ to see if safe.on themselves They tested the medicine on _. malaria patient
10、s The medicine became _ for malaria.a standard treatment boiling fresh wormwood and using the liquid obtained Read para.3 and find what was the key to getting a good extract from the wormwood? When they tried many times and their project got stuck, she didnt acknowledge defeat and analysed the medic
11、al texts again, and by chance she found using a lower temperature to get the extract from the wormwood. III Post-reading 1. Congratuate Tu youyou and tell the aims of interviewing. 2. Ask the following questiones: lHow did you react unpon hearing the prize-winning news? lHow was artemisinin discovered? lWhat do you think of the discovery of artemisinin? lHow do you feel about your research? lWhat does the award of the Nobel Prize mean to you? Two students a group. one is the interview and the other plays Tu youyou.
