Unit 2 Fit for life Reading(1)：Two life-saving medicines 课件（17张PPT）

(共17张PPT)
Reading

presented by Wang Dan
a life-saving medicine: artemisinin
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Two life-saving medicines
Paragraph 1
aspirin
penicillin
significance
popularity
contributions

Reading strategy 1: Headings appear before each section and they are the first thing to look at.
Reading strategy 2: Predicting information
1.Asprin was invented in 1928.
2. Within a short time, aspirin became the best-selling medicine in the world for killing bacteria.
3. Penicillin became the greatest drug of the 20th century, saving millions of lives.
4. In 1945, the three scientists, Fleming, Florey and Chain, shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work.

Go through the passage and judge T/F.
F
F
T
T
Reading strategy 3: Scanning the article for key words and phrases, dates, numbers and so on.
Look for key information to answer the questions.
1. What did people do to reduce body pains and fever nearly 3500 years ago?
2. What is the special chemical?
3. Who produced aspirin from this chemical?
4. When did the first trials of the medicine take place?
5. In what form was aspirin sold in shops in 1900?
Learn the history of aspirin
People chewed on leaves or drank a kind of tea.
Hippocrates made a juice from a tree bark.
Dr Felix Hoffmann produced aspirin
a company
distributed the medicine
in powder form to physicians
to use with patients
aspirin was sold
in shops
in the form of tablets
List the six functions of aspirin.
fever
pain
heart
attacks
strokes
cancers
blood
sugar


Reading strategy 4: understanding medical terms.
Analyze the development of penicillin. Find out the significance, discovery and problems.
helps increase the standard of people’s health and is considered by many to be one of the most important medicines in the world
unable to find a procedure to make it pure enough
having difficulty producing penicillin in the ample quantities needed to be effective
Finish the timeline about the development of penicillin.
1944
1940
Read the article and finish the exercises using the reading strategies we learned today.
What’s main idea of this passage?
Three scientists jointly won the 2015 Nobel Prize for medicine for their work against diseases.


2. How much money did Tu get from the Nobel Prize?





8 million Swedish crowns
640,000 US dollars

4 million Swedish crowns
320,000 US dollars

A
B
C
D
3. Why was Tu Youyou awarded the Nobel Prize?
Because her discovery has greatly reduced the death rate caused by malaria.

4. What can we learn about malaria from this report?

A. It is a kind of parasite disease
B. Mosquitoes suffer a lot from it
C. Little progress has been made in controlling it in the past 10 years
D. More than a million babies and young kids are?killed by it annually

5. “These two discoveries” in the last paragraph refer to: ___________ and ____________.

Homework:
Read the two articles on page 112 and page 113 using the reading strategies we learned today.
Finish Part A1 and part A2 on page 107.
Wang Dan
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