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必修二 Unit 6 The Admirable (4)
高一年级 英语
Lesson 1 A Medical Pioneer (1)
Reading
What do you know about malaria?
What do you know about malaria?
Read the facts about malaria. Choose the one(s) you find most striking (引人注目的) or interesting.
What do you know about malaria?
Malaria is a mosquito-borne (adj. 蚊子携带的) and infectious (adj. 传染的) disease.
The word “malaria” comes from the Latin word for “bad air”.
People suffer from high fever, serious vomiting (v. 呕吐) and terrible headaches when they have the disease.
Facts about malaria
What do you know about malaria?
Malaria kills over 1,000,000 people a year—more people than any disease apart from AIDs.
The drug with artemisinin has proved to be the most effective cure.
Facts about malaria
Artemisinin
What do you know about malaria?
Malaria kills over 1,000,000 people a year—more people than any disease apart from AIDs.
The drug with artemisinin has proved to be the most effective cure.
There is currently no effective vaccine (n. 疫苗) against malaria.
Facts about malaria
Malaria kills over 1,000,000 people a year—more people than any disease apart from AIDs.
Most striking or interesting facts about malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne (adj. 蚊子携带的) and infectious (adj. 传染的) disease.
Most striking or interesting facts about malaria
“The drug with artemisinin has proved to be the most effective cure.”
Most striking or interesting facts about malaria
“The drug with artemisinin has proved to be the most effective cure.”
Who discovered artemisinin?
Tu Youyou
Most striking or interesting facts about malaria
What do you know about
Tu Youyou?
Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize in Physiology (n. 生理学) or Medicine
in 2015.
Tu Youyou is a female scientist.
Tu Youyou is a medical researcher.
Tu Youyou and her team discovered a life-saving drug called artemisinin.
Tu Youyou and her team found a cure for malaria.
A Medical Pioneer
pioneer: one of the first people to be involved in a particular area of activity and develop it
A Medical Pioneer
What do you expect to read in a news article about Tu Youyou?
A Medical Pioneer
A Medical Pioneer
When did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
A Medical Pioneer
When did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Why did Tu Youyou win the Nobel Prize?
A Medical Pioneer
When did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Why did Tu Youyou win the Nobel Prize?
Tu Youyou’s family life
A Medical Pioneer
When did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Why did Tu Youyou win the Nobel Prize?
Tu Youyou’s family life
How did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
A Medical Pioneer
When did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Why did Tu Youyou win the Nobel Prize?
How did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Tu Youyou’s family life
Something about the Nobel Prize award ceremony
A Medical Pioneer
When did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Why did Tu Youyou win the Nobel Prize?
Tu Youyou’s family life
Something about the Nobel Prize award ceremony
Tu Youyou’s education
How did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
A Medical Pioneer
When did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Why did Tu Youyou win the Nobel Prize?
Tu Youyou’s family life
Something about the Nobel Prize award ceremony
Tu Youyou’s contributions
How did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Tu Youyou’s education
A Medical Pioneer
Read and check:
Which of the above predictions are mentioned?
What other information can you find?
Have you found…?
When did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Have you found…?
When did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Why did Tu Youyou win the Nobel Prize?
Have you found…?
When did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Why did Tu Youyou win the Nobel Prize?
Tu Youyou’s family life
Have you found…?
When did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Why did Tu Youyou win the Nobel Prize?
How did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Have you found…?
When did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Why did Tu Youyou win the Nobel Prize?
How did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Something about the Nobel Prize award ceremony
Have you found…?
When did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Why did Tu Youyou win the Nobel Prize?
Something about the Nobel Prize award ceremony
Tu Youyou’s education
How did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Have you found…?
When did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Why did Tu Youyou win the Nobel Prize?
Something about the Nobel Prize award ceremony
Tu Youyou’s contributions
How did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Tu Youyou’s education
Have you found…?
When and where was Tu Youyou born?
What else did you find?
What else did you find?
The difficulties Tu Youyou and her team had when they worked to find a cure for malaria.
What else did you find?
Tu Youyou was selected by the BBC as one of the most influential figures of science in the 20th century.
What else did you find?
Tu Youyou’s attitudes towards the Nobel Prize and her research.
All that you have found
When did Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin?
Why did Tu Youyou win the Nobel Prize?
Something about the Nobel Prize award ceremony
Tu Youyou’s contributions
How did Tu Youyou discover artemisinin?
Tu Youyou’s education
Birth
Attitudes towards research and honour
Research difficulties
BBC
A Medical Pioneer
A Medical Pioneer
Draw a mind-map based on the following three aspects (n. 方面) with the details.
Basic information
Date of birth and birthplace: born in Zhejiang Province, China, on 30 December, 1930
Basic information
Date of birth and birthplace: born in Zhejiang Province, China, on 30 December, 1930
Education : studied medicine at Peking University Health Science Centre; studied Chinese medicine for two and a half years… gained a deep knowledge about traditional practices
Basic information
Date of birth and birthplace: born in Zhejiang Province, China, on 30 December, 1930
Work: a member of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (中国中医科学院)
Basic information
Education : studied medicine at Peking University Health Science Centre; studied Chinese medicine for two and a half years … gained a deep knowledge about traditional practices
Date of birth and birthplace
Education
Work
Basic information
Date of birth and birthplace
Education
Work
Achievements:
2015: the Nobel Prize (Para. 1)
2019: selected by the BBC as one of the most influential figures of science in the 20th century (Para. 5)
Basic information
In 2019, she was selected by the BBC as one of the most influential figures of science in the 20th century.
“If you measure greatness in terms of the number of human lives saved, then there is no doubt at all that Tu Youyou is one of the greatest scientists of all time.”
Who else won this honour?
Who else won this honour?
Who else won this honour?
Albert Einstein:
physicist who helped us to better understand the universe
Who else won this honour?
Who else won this honour?
Alan Turing:
British mathematician and logician (n.逻辑学家)
father of the computer and WW2 code-breaker
Date of birth and birthplace
Education
Work
Achievements
Please retell the part of basic information with the help of your mind-map.
Basic information
Tu Youyou was born in Zhejiang Province in 1930. She majored (v. 主修) in medicine at Peking University, and after she graduated, she went on to work at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. Later, she studied Chinese medicine for two and a half years.
Basic information
Tu Youyou and her team discovered artemisinin in the 1970s, which saved millions of lives. Because of her hard work, she won the Nobel Prize in 2015, and was selected by the BBC as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.
Basic information
Scientific work
Task:
was chosen to establish a team to find a cure for malaria
Scientific work
Task:
was chosen to establish a team to find a cure for malaria
Research activities:
Scientific work
Research activities
tested more than 240,000 chemicals with no success
had an idea that Chinese herbs might hold the secret
studied ancient Chinese literature
Research activities
tested more than 240,000 chemicals with no success
had an idea that Chinese herbs might hold the secret
studied ancient Chinese literature
visited experts in traditional Chinese medicine
researched hundreds of traditional recipes
began using modern research methods to study these Chinese herbs one by one
Research activities
tested more than 240,000 chemicals with no success
had an idea that Chinese herbs might hold the secret
studied ancient Chinese literature
visited experts in traditional Chinese medicine
researched hundreds of traditional recipes
began using modern research methods to study these Chinese herbs one by one
Task:
was chosen to establish a team to find a cure for malaria
Difficulties:
Scientific work
Research activities:
tested (>240,000)
studied …
visited experts …
researched (hundreds of …)
began using … (one by one)
Task:
was chosen to establish a team to find a cure for malaria
Difficulties:
limited resources
not enough staff
poor air quality
failed experiments (hundreds of)
Scientific work
Research activities:
tested (>240,000)
studied…
visited experts…
researched (hundreds of…)
began using… (one by one)
Task:
was chosen to establish a team to find a cure for malaria
Difficulties:
limited resources
not enough staff
poor air quality
failed experiments (hundreds of)
Discovery
Scientific work
Research activities:
tested (>240,000)
studied…
visited experts…
researched (hundreds of…)
began using… (one by one)
Discovery
eventually came across a promising chemical
Discovery
tested it on human subjects
tested it on animals
eventually came across a promising chemical
Discovery
tested it on human subjects
tested it on animals
Tu Youyou volunteered to be the first one.
The team followed.
eventually came across a promising chemical
Discovery
tested it on human subjects
tested it on animals
eventually came across a promising chemical
Tu Youyou volunteered to be the first one.
The team followed.
The world’s most effective drug for fighting malaria—artemisinin was discovered.
Task
Research activities
Difficulties
Discovery
Please retell the part of scientific work with the help of your mind-map.
Scientific work
Scientific work
In 1969, Tu Youyou was given the task of finding a cure for a serious disease—malaria. With no success in the testing of so many chemicals, Tu Youyou turned to Chinese herbs for help. During this process, she ran into countless difficulties.
Scientific work
Tu Youyou eventually came across a promising chemical, artemisinin, which needed to be tested on human beings, and her team followed Tu Youyou to be the first human subjects. The test turned out to be successful, and artemisinin ended up saving millions of lives.
Attitudes
Towards the honour:
Attitudes
Towards the honour:
“This is not only an honour for myself, but also recognition and encouragement for all scientists in China. ” (Para 1)
Attitudes
Towards the honour:
“This is not only an honour for myself, but also recognition and encouragement for all scientists in China. ” (Para 1)
Towards future research:
Attitudes
Towards the honour:
“This is not only an honour for myself, but also recognition and encouragement for all scientists in China. ” (Para 1)
Towards future research:
“From our research experience in discovering artemisinin, we learnt the wisdom behind both Chinese and Western medicine. There is great potential for future advances if these two kinds of wisdom can be fully integrated.”
Attitudes
(Para 5)
Towards the honour:
Towards future research:
Attitudes
What qualities of Tu Youyou are reflected?
Towards the honour:
modest
Towards future research:
Attitudes
Towards the honour:
modest
Towards future research:
open, inclusive
Attitudes
Towards the honour
Towards future research
Tu Youyou
internationally renowned
is not interested in fame
Attitudes
Towards the honour
Towards future research
Attitudes
Please retell the part of attitudes with the help of your mind-map.
Attitudes
Though Tu Youyou has become world-famous, she is not interested in fame. She remains humble (adj. 谦逊的) about all the honours she has received, and keeps an open mind and inclusive attitude towards her research, as she continues to work to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western medicine.
A Medical Pioneer
A Medical Pioneer
Sharing:
What information do you find impressive and why?
Para 1: She began to talk about the life-saving drug, artemisinin, which she had discovered with the help of her team in the 1970s.
A Medical Pioneer
Para 1: … “the discovery of artemisinin has led to the development of new drugs which have saved the lives of millions”.
A Medical Pioneer
Para 3: Across the world, scientists had been trying to find a cure.
A Medical Pioneer
Para 5: Tu Youyou was noted for her bravery in being a scientist during a difficult time for science in China, her ability to use old wisdom and new methods to achieve her goals and the fact that her work bridged the Eastern and Western worlds, saving millions of lives.
A Medical Pioneer
Retell the passage based on your mind-map.
A Medical Pioneer
Retelling: A Medical Pioneer
Tu Youyou was born in Zhejiang Province in 1930. She majored in medicine at Peking University, and after she graduated, she went on to work at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. Later, she studied Chinese medicine for two and a half years.
Retelling: A Medical Pioneer
Tu Youyou and her team discovered artemisinin in the 1970s, which saved millions of lives. Because of her hard work, she won the Nobel Prize in 2015, and was selected by the BBC as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.
Retelling: A Medical Pioneer
In 1969, Tu Youyou was given the task of finding a cure for a serious disease—malaria. With no success in the testing of so many chemicals, Tu Youyou turned to Chinese herbs for help. During this process, she ran into countless difficulties.
Retelling: A Medical Pioneer
Tu Youyou eventually came across a promising chemical, artemisinin, which needed to be tested on human beings, and her team followed Tu Youyou to be the first human subjects. The test turned out to be successful, and artemisinin ended up saving millions of lives.
Retelling: A Medical Pioneer
Though Tu Youyou has become world-famous, she is not interested in fame. She remains humble about all the honours she has received, and keeps an open mind and inclusive attitude towards her research, as she continues to work to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western medicine.
A Medical Pioneer
“When you are entrusted (given) with an assignment (mission), you do your best.”
Homework
Write a short passage to introduce how Tu Youyou and her team worked to discover artemisinin.