UNIT 2 MORALS AND VIRTUES
Reading and Thinking
Mother of Ten Thousand Babies
Learn objectives:
By the end of this period, you will be able to:
1. know the structure and get the main idea of the text;
2. figure out different choices Lin Qiaozhi faced in her different life stages;
3. understand the great achievements Lin made.
Activity 1 Lead-in
Who is he
After the COVID-19 breaking out, he boarded a night train to Wuhan. He got down to business as soon as he settled down in his seat, trying to prevent the spread of the virus, even at the risk of infection.
Who is she
A great woman, who is an epidemiologist (流行病学家) and expert from the National Health Commission (国家卫生委员会), went to Wuhan without hesitation to do research work and rescue the patients at the first time. She is the first expert to put forward the method of locking Wuhan.
As a winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology (生理学) or Medicine, she discovered an entirely new anti-malarial(抗疟疾药), artemisinin (青蒿素), which made possible the treatment of thousands of patients in China in the 1980s.
Known as the “mother of ten thousand babies”, she was a specialist in women’s diseases, living from 1901 to 1983. She had devoted her whole life to serving women and children of China, especially women in the countryside.
Pre-reading
Have you ever made a hard choice in your life
You are in a dilemma and don’t know how to deal with it.
Our life is a matter of choices, no matter who we are. For example Lin Qiaozhi.
From our last listening class, we know she gave up the entrance examination for a famous medical university in order to help a girl.
Lin Qiaozhi was faced with other hard choices throughout her life. Now let’s learn about the other choices she made.
Activity 1.
1.The text is written in _________________ order.
2.The text is a _______.
A. biography B. autobiography C. exposition
D. narration D. argumentation
Listening
Listen and match the main idea with each paragraph.
Read the text about Lin Qiaozhi and then answer the following questions.
Textual Analysis: Para 1
“Life is precious....To a person nothing is more precious than their life, and if they entrust me with that life, how could I refuse that trust, saying I'm cold, hungry, or tired "These words of Dr Lin Qiaozhi give us a look into the heart of this amazing woman, and what carried her through a life of hard choices.
Read paragraph 2-6 and find out all of the important events of the Lin Qiaozhi's life according to the timeline.
Close reading
Read the text carefully and fill in the form.
Ⅲ.Read Para.3 and do the following exercises.
1. What hard choice was Dr Lin faced in 1939
2. What do the phrases indicate
They indicate that Dr Lin was ___________, ____________ and __________ in the medical field.
Ⅳ.Read Para.4 and answer the question.
What hard choice was Dr Lin faced during the war
Textual Analysis: Para 5
4. Devote herself to government work or to medical career
What was more important for Dr Lin than holding important positions
Textual Analysis: Para 6
5.Continue to rescue her life or give up her life
1. Why was Lin Qiaozhi known as “the mother of ten thousands babies”
What did Dr Lin do when she died
Post-reading
In our whole life, we may be faced with so many hard choices. When making choices we should learn to put others first and choose to be kind just like Dr Lin.
Activity 6 Make a summary
The structure of writing a biography
birth and death time
family background
childhood
turning points in life
quotes their own or other people’s words
In time order
Make a summary of the text according to
the following numbers:5, 18, 8, 1939, 1941, 50000, 1983.