(共37张PPT)
Period 1
Reading and Thinking
1.To read to know about Tu Youyou and her achievements.
2. To read for specific information and understanding words in context.
3. To learn about the great spirits of Tu Youyou.
1. Who is the woman in the photo
2. What is happening in this photo
3. What more can you find from this photo
Look & discuss
She is Tu Youyou.
She was awarded Nobel Prize.
Tu Youyou received her prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden during the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony at Concert Hall in Stockholm(斯德哥尔摩), Sweden.
Tu Youyou, Chinese Chemist
Winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
She was nominated by the BBC as one of the most influential figures
in 20th century science alongside Marie Curie, Alan Turing, and Albert
Einstein.
Recipient of the Medal of the Republic(共和国勋章).
She discovered a new revolutionary treatment for malaria(疟疾)—artemisinin (青蒿素).
About 1971.
To be a man of value is more meaningful than to be a man of success.
What's your feelings after reading this quote of Einstein
Is Tu Youyou a man of success or value Why
She is a man of value. Because she made a great discovery of the artemisinin which saves millions of lives worldwide.
Which is more important for making a great discovery, talent or effort
How to make a discovery
Now let's read a passage about
Tu Youyou to find the answers.
Para. 1
Para. 3
Para.2
Para.4
B. The honor of the discovery.
Tu’s way to the treatment for malaria.
C. The significance of Tu’s discovery.
D. The discovery of the artemisinin.
Task 1: Fast reading
1. Match the main ideas with each paragraph.
Skills: try to find out who, when, why, where and what.
It mainly talks about ____________ achievement and her way to ______________________ which saves lots of people worldwide.
Tu Youyou's
find out the artemisinin
2. What does the passage mainly talk about
4. Where would you most likely find this passage
A. In a blog. B. In a book.
C. In a letter. D. In a newspaper.
3. What is the writing style of the passage
News.
1930
Tested the medicine on themselves and later on patients. The medicine became a standard treatment for malaria.
1955
Chosen to be the first researchers to discover a new treatment for malaria.
Graduated from Peking University Medical School
Born in Ningbo, China
Became the head of the project in Beijing and decided to find traditional botanical treatments for the disease.
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine.
1967
2. Why is the discovery of artemisinin important
Can you list the exact number
Over 200 million people around the world get malaria each year, and about 600,000 die from it.
Artemisinin has saved 100,000 lives a year in Africa alone.
Because it has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and has led to improved health for millions of people.
crucial / vital
3. What do the numbers mentioned in the text suggest
1. Para 1: Over 200 million people around the world get malaria each year,
and about 600,000 die from it... and is thought to save 100,000 lives a year
in Africa alone.
2. Para 2: Her team examined over 2,000 old medical texts and evaluated 280,000 plants for ..., they discovered and tested 880 distinct ancient Chinese medical treatments...
3. Para 3: After failing more than 190 times, the team finally succeeded in
1971.
people who get malaria people die from malaria lives to be saved
To show the efforts that Tu Youyou's team have made
To suggest the difficulties that Tu's team once met and their determination to find out a cure for malaria.
They tested the medicine____ _________ to see if safe.
Tu's team examined _________
_______________and evaluated ________________________
over 2,000
old medical texts
280,000 plants for properties.
They found a medical text suggesting ______________________________
using the extract from
sweet wormwood
to treat a fever.
They tested ________________
__________________________
dried wormwood
leaves but found no effect
They tried __________________but_______________________________
boiling fresh wormwood
and using the liquid
this did not work either.
They used a ________________
__________ the sweet wormwood
extract.
lower temperature
to draw out
on
themselves
They tested the medicine on
_______________.
malaria patients
The medicine became _________
___________________ .
a standard
treatment for malaria
4. How was artemisinin discovered
What was the key to getting a good extract from the wormwood
A. the active voice/ offer many opinions
B. the first person/ talk about feelings
C. both active and passive voices / mostly contain facts
6. 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 Youyou's important contributions other than the discovery of artemisinin.
D. Tu Youyou's personal life.
E. Tu Youyou's road to discovering artemisinin
F. What Tu Youyou was awarded.
G. Why artemisinin is an important discovery.
5.Passage like this are most often written in _____ and _______.
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 Chinese 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 dstinct ancient Chinese medical________________(treat). One medical text suggested using the extract from sweet wormwood to treat a fever.Tu Youyou analysed 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 team's hard work _______________(oventual) paid off in 1971.
Tu Youyou thought the discovery of artemisinin was a team effort and the Nobel Prize was an honor for China's scientific research and Chinese medicine to be spread around the world.
which
has saved
graduating
was chosen
the
evaluated
treatments
by
boiling
eventually
Why is Tu Youyou considered a great person
Because she is the first Chinese citizen to win a
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Because her discovery of artemisinin has saved
hundreds of thousands of lives.
Because …
What kinds of spirts have you learnt from Tu Youyou
committed
never acknowledge defeat
perseverant
dare to challenge
faithful
hard-working
able to endure hardship
…
As a senior high school student, what kind of person do you want to be
1. commit vt. &vi. 承诺, 保证; 忠于; 全心全意投入(工作、活动等)
Tu Youyou, a committed and patient scientist, was born in Ningbo, China on 30 December 1930.
屠呦呦, 一个坚定又有耐性的科学家, 于1930年12月30号出生于中国宁波。
commit (oneself) to do 承诺/保证做某事
commit sth. to 把某物托付给……
commit a crime 犯罪; 犯下罪行
committed adj. 尽心尽力的, 坚定的; 坚信的
commitment n. 委托, 承诺(后可跟to doing)
【知识拓展】
【即学即练】
(1) Last year, the community __________(commit) to support those affected by the crisis by creating employment opportunities and through income support measures.
(2)The solution to this headache is, of course, _________ (commit) changes frequently!
(3)He was perfectly conscious when he __________(commit) the crime.
(4)(2020·江苏高考)And tens of millions in Africa and Asia can see because of the __________ (commit) Wilson made to preventing the preventable.
2. evaluate vt. 评价, 评估
Her team examined over 2, 000 old medical texts, and evaluated 280, 000 plants for their medical properties.
她的团队检查了超过2 000本古老的医学著作, 并评估了28万种植物的药用价值。
(2021·天津高考)Feeling fearful is healthy because it helps you slow down and evaluate risks properly.
感到恐惧是健康的,因为它能帮助你放慢速度,正确评估风险。
evaluate as (被)认为
evaluative adj. 可估价的
evaluation n. 评价; [审计] 评估; 估价; 求值
【知识拓展】
【即学即练】
(1)It is well-known that Han Hong has done quantities of charity devotion,
and it’s hard __________(evaluate) her just as a singer.
(2)The key approaches to be used in test and _________(evaluate) have
been proven right.
(3)It is reported that both these locations have military _________ (evaluate)
centres.
3. obtain vt. &vi. (尤指经努力)获得, 赢得; (规章、习俗等)存在, 流行
They then tried boiling fresh wormwood, and using the liquid obtained from this to treat malaria.
然后, 他们试着把新鲜的苦艾煮沸, 然后用从中提取的液体来治疗疟疾。
obtain from. . . 从……中获得/取得
obtain sth. 获得/取得某物
【知识拓展】
【即学即练】
(1) ①He ________(obtain)the property with a bank loan.
②The scientist obtained a substance _____the
experiment.
(2)He always managed to ____________________(得
到他想要的东西).
4. acknowledge vt. 承认; 感谢
We acknowledge him as a genius.
我们承认他是个天才。
be acknowledged as. . . 被认为是……
It is universally/generally acknowledged that. . .
公认为/普遍认为……
acknowledgement n. 承认, 感谢
【知识拓展】
【即学即练】
(1)(2019·全国卷Ⅱ)Her years of hard work have finally_______________
(acknowledge) after a customer nominated(提名)her to be Cheshire’s Woman
Of The Year.
(2)I started to acknowledge failure __exactly what it is: an unavoidable part of everyone’s life—nothing more and nothing less.
(3)This setting determines when the secondary server sends an _____________(acknowledge) to the primary server.
5. defeat n. 失败, 挫败 vt. 击败, 战胜
He declared that we are to defeat those who attempted to tear the world down in time.
他宣布: 我们迟早会打败那些企图撕裂世界的人。
take defeat 接受失败
suffer defeat 遭受失败
【知识拓展】
【即学即练】
(1)Nian ___________(defeat), and from then on, the color red has been
considered to bring good luck and good fortune to all.
(2)Most of you really believe that the way you get to what you do want is ________(defeat) what you do not want.
(3)Hitler refused to acknowledge the fact that he himself ___________
(defeat) by the people in the end.
6. insist vi. & vt. 坚持; 坚决要求
(2020 全国Ⅲ卷)But she insists on us eating healthy food.
但是她坚持让我们吃健康的食物。
insist on/upon (doing) sth. 坚持(做)某事
insist that. . .
(1)坚持说/认为……(从句内容表示一个事实, 从句谓语按实际需要选择时态)
(2)强烈要求/坚持……(从句用虚拟语气, 即should+动词原形, should可以省略)
【知识拓展】
【即学即练】
(1)I insisted that he ____(be)wrong.
(2)They insisted on _____(go) there by motorbike.
(3)She insisted that we ____________(turn) in our homework on time.
(4)He insisted ________ making a voyage after graduating from college.
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认知词汇:
physiology, artemisinin, malaria, academy, extract, wormwood, penicillin, flee
拓展词汇:
1.commit→ commitment→ committed
2.evaluate→evaluation
3.distinct→distinction→distinctive
4.acknowledge→acknowledgement
5.analyse→ analysis
6. science →scientific→scientist
7. conclude →conclusion
8.novel→novelist
应用词汇:
1.commit:commit (oneself) to do, commit sth. to, commit a crime
2.evaluate:evaluate as
3.obtain:obtain from. . ., obtain sth.
4.acknowledge:be acknowledged as. . . , It is universally/generally acknowledged that. . .
5.defeat:take defeat, suffer defeat
6.insist: insist on/upon (doing) sth. ,
insist that. . .
词 汇 清 单
核心短语
重点句式
1.Upon hearing that she had been awarded the Nobel Prize, she said, “The honour is not just mine. ” (upon doing 一……就……)
2. In the beginning, Tu Youyou went to Hainan, where malaria was more common, to study malaria patients.(where 引导非限制性定语从句)
be awarded to
lead to
treatment for
millions of
be thought to do
graduate from
with the objective of
in the beginning
show promise
suggest doing
obtain from
insist on
to
is acknowledged
from
evaluation
to go
leaving
arrival
*
objectives
to analyse
defeating
*
have committed myself to
insisted on
risked his life
*
lead to
die from
in the beginning
by chance
drew out
*
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
对明天最好的准备就是今天做到最好。