人教版必修五
Unit1Great scientists
Period1 Warming up
characteristic
radium
painter
scientific
conclude
conclusion
analyse
n. 特征; 特性
n. 镭
n. 画家; 油漆匠
adj. 科学的
vt. & vi. 结束; 推断出
n. 结论; 结束
vt. 分析
Words review
put forward
draw a conclusion
提出
得出结论
Expressions review
Objective
Find out what you already know about famous scientists.
There are some great scientific achievements that have changed the world. Can you name some of them?
Match the achievements with the scientists below.
Galileo Galilei
Benjamin Franklin
Newton
Alexander Bell
Albert Einstein
the theory of falling objects
lightning
the law of gravity
telephone
Scientists Achievements
the theory of relativity
What do you know about
great scientists?
Try this quiz and find out
who knows the most.
1. Which scientist discovered that objects
in water are lifted up by a force that
helps them float?
B. Archimedes
C. Thomas
Edison
A. Charles
Darwin
Archimedes (287-212 BC), an ancient Greek mathematician & physicist
2. Who wrote a book explaining how
animals and plants developed as the
environment changed?
Marie
Curie
C. Charles
Darwin
B. Gregor
Mendel
Charles Darwin (1808-1882), British author
of The Origin of Species
3. Who invented the first steam engine?
Thomas
Newcomen
C. Thomas
Edison
B. Archimedes
Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729), British,
improved the first steam pump and turned
it into a steam engine for taking water out
of mines in 1712
4. Who used peas to show how physical
characteristics are passed from parents
to their children?
Thomas
Edison
C. Archimedes
B. Gregor
Mendel
Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), Czech,
developed ideas on heredity (遗传学) and inherited (继承, 承传) characteristics
5. Who discovered radium?
C. Marie Curie
B. Newton
A. Zhang Heng
Marie Curie (1867-1934), Polish and French, won two Nobel prizes
6. Who invented the way of giving electricity
to everybody in large cities?
Stephen
Hawking
C. Thomas
Edison
B. Archimedes
Thomas Edison (1847-1931),
American inventor
Thomas
Edison
Inventions of Thomas Edison
Phonograph 留声机
Light bulb
motion picture camera
7. Who was the painter that studied dead
bodies to improve his painting of people?
Gregor
Mendel
C. Marie
Curie
B. Leonardo
da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian artist
Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings
8. Who invented a lamp to keep miners safe
underground?
Sir Humphry
Davy
C. Faraday
B. Thomas
Newcomen
Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), British,
discovered the medicinal value of nitrous oxide (一氧化二氮) as anaesthetic (麻醉剂)
9. Who invented the earliest instrument to
tell people where earthquakes happened?
Charles
Darwin
C. Watt
B. Zhang
Heng
Zhang Heng (78-139), Chinese, invented the first seismograph
seismograph地动仪
10. Who put forward a theory about black
holes?
Stephen
Hawking
C. Copernicus
B. Archimedes
Stephen Hawking (1942- ), British scientist,
worked in astronomy and studied black holes in space
The quotes below are from some famous scientists.
Do you know their meanings?
Imagination is more important than
knowledge.
“想象力比知识更重要。”
Albert Einstein
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
“天才就是百分之九十九的汗水
加上百分之一的灵感。”
Thomas Alva Edison
Marie Curie
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
“生活中没有什么可怕的东西,只有需要理解的东西。”
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
Alfred Whitehead
“分析明显存在的事物需要非凡的
头脑。”
What makes a
scientist successful?
strong will
imagination
creativity
patience
persistence
carefulness
curiosity
…
Do you know how to prove a new idea in scientific research?
Discuss in small groups the stages in setting out a new scientific idea.
What order would you put them in?
Draw a conclusion Think of a method Collect results Make a question
Find a problem Analyse the results
Find supporting evidence
Infectious diseases can be spread
to other people. They have an unknown
cause and need public health care to
solve them.
People may be exposed to infectious
diseases, so may animals. Bird flu,
AIDS and SARS are infectious diseases.
Infectious diseases are difficult to cure.
What do you know about infectious diseases?
What do you know about cholera?
What other diseases do you know are similar to SARS today?
Cholera
What is Cholera?
Cholera is the illness caused by a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae. It infects people’s intestines (肠), causing diarrhea (腹泻), vomiting and leg cramps. The most common cause of cholera is by someone eating food or drinking water that has been infected with the bacteria.
After a disaster, this is a very real danger, since regular, clean water
and food supplies are often
unavailable. The disease can be
spread even further by infected people using already dirtied water sources to clean themselves or dispose of waste.
Great Britain
Germany
Death of first cholera case in London during the 1848-49 epidemic
London
Previous cholera epidemic in Great Britain in 1831-32
The spread of cholera
Homework
Write a passage about one
of your favourite scientist
in about 150 words.
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