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新北师大选择性必修Book 3
Unit 9 HUMAN BIOLOGY
Topic Talk P50-51
HUMAN BIOLOGY
What does the heart do
What are bones made of
Why do we yawn
What do you know about human body
consciousness
intelligence
memory
judgement
creation
innovation
What comes to your mind when you see the working brain
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Pair Work. Talk about the things your body and mind are capable of doing.
My body is capable of doing many things, such as ...
My mind is capable of doing many things, such as ...
running marathons, dancing beautifully
making judgements, inferring meaning
Text Builder
Human Biology
Capabilities of the Human Body
running very fast,
carrying heavy things, jumping high, dancing beautifully, doing gymnastics, running marathons
Read the Text Builder carefully. Then listen to the dialogue and complete it by underlining the expressions you hear.
The human body is capable of doing many things, such as
_______________
________________.
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jumping high,
running very fast
The human mind is capable of ____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________.
We use our minds to ________________________________________.
Capabilities of the Human mind
making decisions, reasoning, justifying, memorising facts, predicting the future, thinking and making judgements, inferring meaning
creat, innovate, solve, problems, calculate
making decisions, memorising facts, reasoning and doing so many other things
creat and innovate
as well
I really admire people who use their minds for the betterment of mankind. For example, __________________ conduct research to __________________
__________________.
What Scientists Can do
physicists, medical researchers, information technologists
discover the unknown world and the universe, find cures for diseases, make new inventions to better human life, creat robots to do the work for human beings
medical researchers
find cures for diseases
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Use the Text Builder to talk about things the human body or mind is capable of doing.
The human body is capable of carrying heavy things, dancing beautifully and running marathons.
The human mind is capable of justifying, predicting the future and solving problems.
Listen to the dialogue. Write T (true) or F (false).
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1. Dr. Millhouse has been doing research into how the human body reacts in extreme conditions.
2. They trained the participants to do special breathing exercises and then had them practise the exercises in extremely low temperatures outside.
T
F
3. After about twenty minutes, the participants’ bodies started to warm up on their own!
4. When the participants started suffering from tiredness, they stopped doing the exercises properly. Then their body temperature kept warm for a long time.
5. According to the research, people are able to control to how hot or cold their bodies are.
T
T
F
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Use the language you have learnt to write a short paragraph about the human body or mind can do.
Human body human mind
running very fast, carrying heavy things, jumping high, dancing beautifully, doing gymnastics, running marathons making decisions, reasoning, justifying, memorising facts, predicting the future, thinking and making judgements, inferring meaning
Try to make the information a paragraph by yourself.
“Quote...Unquote”
A person’s life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.
— Lei Feng
Explanation：How can a person serve people limitlessly as Lei Feng wanted By always improving, by working for an organisation that helps people.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Explanation：What suggestion do you think Wittgenstein
would give someone who wants to improve his soul (To eat healthier, to keep the body clean, to learn.)
Every human brain is different — the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.
— Stanley B. Prusiner
Explanation：How is your brain unique
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Explanation：Gandhi is known for his modesty. He was not a wealthy man. Why would he talk about gold and silver (To say that there are other things more important than money. For example, your body is important and not pieces of metal.) Do you agree What else might Gandhi say is “real wealth” (Time, energy, laughter)
Lei Feng (1940-1962), a solider in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army who was honoured as a role model and dedicated worker on many occasions .
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), an Austrian-born British philosopher and logician.
Stanley B. Prusiner (born in 1942), an American neurologist and biochemist .
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.
Lei Feng
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Stanley B. Prusiner
Mahatma Gandhi
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