1、Unit 4Scientists who changed the worldLearning aims To grasp the structure,outline大纲大纲 and details of the article.To To appreciate Tu Youyous wonderful qualities.To learn from the great scientists.Yuan Longping A Chinese scientist who was awarded with the Medal of the Republic A well-known agricultu
2、ral scientist The Father of Hybrid riceGuessStephen Hawking a famous British physicist had to sit in a wheelchair because of disease A brief history of timeGuess a famous British physicist Invented the reflecting telescopeIsaac NewtonGuessTu Youyou A Chinese female scientist won 2015 Nobel PrizeGues
3、sChinese scientist wins 2015 Nobel PrizeGuidance&ExplorationA.ExpositionB.Narration C.News report What is the genre of this writing?Read for structureStructure of news reportInverted PyramidHeadlineLeadBodyTailattractive,direcct,exact,brief,incompletethe most important information:Who,What,When,Wher
4、e,Why,Howdetailed or supporting informationbackground information or conclusionPara.1:Tu Youyou won a Nobel Prize in 2015 for her discovery of qinghaosu.Part 1The leadPart 2BodyPara.2:Tu Youyou acquired_ _.Paras.3-5:Tu Youyou and her team solved _ before they _.Para.6:Part 3Taila broad knowledge of
5、both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine.a lot of problemssuccessfully discovered qinghaosuTu Youyou and her teams efforts finally paid off.Read for detailed information19301951-551969197119722015born in Ningbo,ZJ Provincestudied medicine atuniversity in Beijingbecame head of a team th
6、at intendedto find a cure formalariasucceeded in making qinghao extract that could treat malaria in micesuccessfully discovered qinghaosuwon the Nobel PrizeRead para.2,judge if the following statements are true:Tu is the first female scientists to receive a Nobel Prize.Malaria is one of the deadlies
7、t diseases in human history.Read for detailed information-Lead(Para.1)Read for detailed information-Body(Para.2-5)Read para.2,answer the following questions:1Whats Tu Youyous major at university?()AScience.BAgriculture.CMedicine.DChemistry.CRead for detailed information-Body(Para.2-5)Read para.3-5,f
8、ill in the table in A2 Page46:ProblemsSolutionsThe extracts failed to produce any promising results.Tu and her team could not produce enough qinghao extract because research resources were limited.Tu and her team did not have sufficient safety data to start trials on patients.Tu Youyou referred to t
9、he ancient books not to damage its effective part.Tu Youyou and her team managed to find solutions to the problem,e.g.using household water containers instead of research equipment.Tu Youyou and her team volunteered to test the qinghao extract on themselves.1.How many patients has qinghaosu since be
10、nefited?As a key part of many malaria medicine,qinghaosu has since benefited about 200 million malaria patients.2.What did she encourage scientists to do?She encouraged scientists to further explore the treasure house of traditional Chinese medicine and raise it to a higher level.Read for detailed i
11、nformation-Tail(Para.6)Read para.6,answer the following questions:1.What qualities did Tu Youyou show as a scientist?Use details from the news report to support your ideas.Pair-work after 190 failures,she succeeded in making qinghao extract(L21)collected over 2,000 traditional Chinese medical recipe
12、s,made hundreds of extracts from different herbs (L15)worked day and night and their health began to suffer,but they never gave up(L26)volunteered to test qinghao extract on themselves first(31)hard-working patientCommitted(奉献的奉献的)SelflessA GoodScientistWell-educatedStrong-mindedWilling to sacrifice
13、determineddevotedpersistent 2.What qualities does a good scientist have?(Group-work)Tus speech at the Nobel Prize ceremonybroad sufficient intend pay offlimited experiment wisdom refer toThe passage below is about traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine.Complete the passage with the correc
14、t forms of the words and phrases in the box below.In her Nobel Lecture,Tu Youyou(1)_ the strengths of both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine,and pointed out that there is great potential for future advances if scientists make good use of these strengths.referred toTheir efforts to co
15、nduct research in both fields may finally(2)_.A good example to illustrate this point is the discovery of qinghaosu in 1972,which was(3)_ as an effective treatment for malaria.The Chinese herb qinghao,from which qinghaosu comes,has been used to cure diseases for almost 2,000 years.pay offintendedbro
16、ad sufficient intend pay offlimited experiment wisdom refer toHowever,it was not until the 1970s that Tu succeeded in discovering qinghaosu,after many failed(4)_.By then,the fight against malaria had achieved only(5)_ success.Since the discovery of qinghaosu,the survival rate of malaria patients has
17、 increased by around 30%.limitedbroad sufficient intend pay offlimited experiment wisdom refer toexperimentsWithout her(6)_ knowledge of both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine,Tu might never have discovered qinghaosu.It is important that scientists draw on the(7)_ of both fields.With
18、(8)_ research,many more medical discoveries like qinghaosu are likely to be made.broad sufficient intend pay offlimited experiment wisdom refer towisdomsufficientbroadWhoWho was the main character of news report?WhatWhat honor did she receive?WhenWhen did she get the award?WhereWhere did she get ins
19、pired?WhyWhy did she get the prize?HowHow did she make the discovery?Read the news report again and complete the 5W1H questions table.The news report uses some abstract nouns.Note the following suffixes and think of more words formed with them.Then fill in the table below with as many words as you c
20、an.Parts of speech SuffixesWordsAdjectives-domwisdom-nesseffectivenessVerbs-alsurvival-anceappearance-urefailureAdjectives/Verbs/Nouns-ageshortagefreedomarrival,approval,proposal,refusal,removalpleasure,exposure,closureacceptance,performance,assistancemarriage,passage,percentageusefulness,kindness,loneliness,happiness
