1、Unit 1 People of AchievementDescribe people of achievement Since 2020, China has been fighting against the COVID-19. Thanks to many great scientists, like Zhong Nanshan and Li Lanjuan, we make great success. They set a very good example for us Chinese. Please list more great people who has made grea
2、t achievements. She became the first Chinese woman to be appointed director of the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital.She was elected to the first National Peoples Congress. She held many important positions.She devoted all her life to work and delivered over 50,000 babies.What is his / her name
3、?What did he /she invent or discover?Describe people of achievementName: _Nationality: _Inventions /discovers: _Qian XuesenChineseChinese atom bombGreat scientistsName: _Nationality: _Inventions /discovers: _Yuan LongpingChinesehybrid riceName: _Nationality: _Inventions /discovers: _Marie CuriePolis
4、hradioactivityName: _Nationality: _Inventions /discovers: _Albert EinsteinAmericanrelativity Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value. Albert Einstein 不要为成功而努力不要为成功而努力,要为做一个有价值的人而努力。要为做一个有价值的人而努力。To make a great discovery, which is more important? Talent or effort?
5、 Teaching Objectives： 1. To read for specific information and understand words in text. 2. To know about Tu Youyou and her achievement. 3. To learn from the virtues of scientific spirits from the example of Tu Youyou and her team.1. Who is the woman in the photo?2. What is happening in this photo?Tu
6、 Youyou was being awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine by the king of Sweden. Why?Sweet wormwoodextracttreatmentSome basic information you need to know Malaria 【reason】:mosquito 【symptoms】chill, fever, sweat treatment Recall background knowledge of Tu Youyou Reading and ThinkingTU
7、 YOU YOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZELook at the title and the two pictures on P2, predict what will be talked about.Skimming:1.What is the type of this text?2.Where would you most likely find this passage?3. Passages like this are most often written in _ voices and mostly contain _. News storyIn a news pape
8、r.active and passivefactsSkimming:Skim the text and find the main idea of each paragraph.Para. 1Para. 2-3Para. 4The news about Tu Youyou winning the Nobel Prize and the significance of discovering artemisinin. The process of discovering artemisinin by Tu and her team.Tus comment when she heard the n
9、ews.Which two pieces of information were not included in the passage? (Activity 3 P3) 4.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 artemi
10、sinin. D Tu Youyous personal life. E Tu Youyous road to discovering artemisinin. F What Tu Youyou was awarded. G Why artemisinin is an important discovery.Para. 1The news about Tu Youyou winning the Nobel Prize and the significance of discovering artemisinin. Why is the discovery of artemisinin so i
11、mportant？Please locate the numbers and the related verbs in this paragraph.Facts:1. over 200 million people around the world each yearget malaria2. about 600,000 die from malaria3. hundreds of thousands of lives4. millions of peoplehas savedhas led to improved health foris thought to save100,000 liv
12、es a year in Africa aloneFind two adj. describing the discovery of artemisinin.crucial, vitalHow was artemisinin discovered?Scanning: Read Para.2&3 to sort out the process of the discovering artemisinin.1. Locate the years in these two paragraphs and find out what happened.19301955196719691971Tu You
13、you was born in Ningbo,China.She graduated from Peking University Medical School.She was among the first researchers chosen of a team to discover a new treatment for malaria and went to Hainan to study malaria patients.She became the head of the project in Beijing and decided to review ancient Chine
14、se medical texts to find traditional botanical treatments for the disease.The team succeeded in extracting artemisinin from wormwood and used it as a standard treatment for malaria.2. Complete the flow chart. Then tell the story of how artemisinin was discovered. （Activity 5 P3）Tu Youyous team exami
15、ned _ and evaluated _.They found a medical text suggesting _.They tested _.over 2,000 old medical texts280,000 plants for their medical propertiesusing the extract from sweet wormwood to treat a fever a collection of dried wormwood leaves but found no effect.They tried _, but _.They used a _ sweet w
16、ormwood extract.They tested the _ to see if safe. boiling fresh wormwood , and using the liquid obtained from this to treat malariathis did not work eitherlower temperature to draw outmedicine on themselvesThey tested the medicine on _.The medicine became _ for malaria. malaria patients， most of who
17、m recovereda standard treatmentqualities of Tudeterminedpersistent hardworkingcommittedstrong-willedpatientbraveWhat contributes to the discovery of artemisinin? The support of governmentTireless efforts Professional knowledge Inspiration from Chinese traditional medicineRead and think(GW) Try to be
18、come not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value. Albert Einstein Is Tu Youyou a person of success or a person of value？Why？Is Tu Youyou a great person？Why？To make a great discovery, which is more important? Talent or Effort?effort talent We need talent to learn quickly and to thin
19、k sharply. We should spare no effort to do experiment despite failure. Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% percent perspiration. Role-play (PW)An interview with Tu YouyouOne acts as a reporter, the other acts as Tu Youyou.1. 祝贺屠呦呦获奖， 并解释此次采访的目的。2. 提问以下问题完成现场采访。1)How did you react upon hearing the prize
20、- winning news?2)How was artemisinin discovered?3)What do you think of the discovery of artemisinin?4)How do you feel about your research.5)What does the award of the Nobel Prize mean to you?Write a biography (个人简介个人简介) about Tu Youyou. You can surf the Internet for necessary information. Your artic
21、le may not be less than 150 words.Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2015 for her research, _ led to the discovery of artemisinin. Artemisinin _(save) a large number of lives since it was discovered. After _(graduate) from university, Tu Youyou worked at the China Academy of Traditional Chines
22、e Medicine. In 1967, Tu Youyou _(choose) as a researcher of a team of scientists with _ purpose of discovering a new treatment for malaria.They_(evaluate) 280.000 plants and tested 380 distinct ancient Chinese medical_(treat). One medical text suggested using the extract from sweet wormwood to treat
23、 a fever. Tu Youyou analyzed the medical texts again, and _ chance, she found one sentence suggesting a different way. Soon she found a substance that worked by_(boil) the sweet wormwood at a lower temperature. The teams hard work _(event) paid off in 1971. Tu Youyou thought the discovery of artemis
24、inin was a team effort and the Nobel Prize was an honor for Chinas scientific research and Chinese medicine to be spread around the world.Key: which; has saved; graduating; was chosen; the; evaluated; treatments; by; boiling; eventually.How do you understand the proverb “Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value”? Explain it according to Tu Youyous story.Tus research and Nobel Prize
