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(共18张PPT)
Unit 1 People of Achievement
Reading and Thinking
Who is the woman in the photo
What is happening in this photo
Tu Youyou was being awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine by the king of Sweden.
Why
Warming-up
Sweet wormwood
extract
treatment
Malaria
【reason】:mosquito
【symptoms】
chill, fever, sweat
treatment
Tu Youyou won Nobel Prize for the discovery of Artemisinin.
(青蒿素)
a deadly disease
Tu youyou received the Medal of the Republic in 2019
Reading and Thinking
TU YOU YOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE
Task 1 Read for features
The title
The date
The lead
The illustrations插图
Where would you most
likely find this passage
In a newspaper
News story
Fast-reading
2. Passages like this are most often
written in _____ and _______
A. the active voice/ offer many opinions
B. the first person/ talk about feelings
C. both active and passive voices / mostly
contain facts
Features:
timeliness及时性,
accuracy准确性,
objectivity客观性
Match the main idea with each paragraph
Tu’s response to the award
The introduction of Tu Youyou and her team
The discovery of the artemmisinin
Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize
Read for text structure
Read for text structure
Divide the text into three parts
part1
part2
part3
The news
the research process
The significance
This year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to TU Youyou(Co-winner), whose research led to the discovery of artemisinin, a crucial new treatment for malaria. Artemisinin has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and has led to improved health for millions of people. Over 200 million people around the world get malaria each year, and about 600,000 die from it. Artemisinin has become a vital part of the treatment for malaria, and is thought to save 100,000 lives a year in Africa alone.
1.Find out when,what,who ,why of the news event;
2. Circle all the numbers;
3. Find two adjectives describing the discovery of artemisinin.
who
what
when
What do the numbers suggest
good effects of artemisinin
the seriousness of malaria
why
Careful-reading: Part1 The event
Six elements of news report
When / Where / Who / What / Why / How
Para 2 & 3
Tu Youyou's life experience
1930
1955
1967
1969
1971
2015
_______ on 30 Dec. 1930. Ningbo, China
_________ from Peking University
_________ to be the first researchers to...
became the ______ of the project in Beijing
___________ in discovering artemisinin
was ________ the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
was born
graduated
was chosen
head
succeeded
awarded
the leading researcher
44 years
timeline
tried ____________________________
________________________________
but_____________________________
Tu’s team examined _______________
_____________, and evaluated _____ ________________________________
over 2,000 old
280,000
medical texts
plants for their medical properties.
They discovered and tested __________ ________________________________
380 distinct
ancient Chinese medical treatments
found one medical text suggesting
________________________________
______________________________
using the extract from sweet
wormwood to treat a fever.
tested ___________________________
________________________________
a collection of dried wormwood
leaves but found no effect
and using the liquid obtained from it
this didn’t work either.
boiling fresh wormwood
used a ______________
_________________ the sweet wormwood extract.
lower temperature
to draw out
tested the medicine _____________ to see if safe.
on themselves
tested the medicine on_____________.
malaria patients
The medicine became __________________ for malaria.
a standard treatmet
Para 2 & 3
According to Tu Youyou, the discovery of artemisinin was a team effort. Upon hearing that she had been awarded the Nobel Prize, she said, “The honour is not just mine. There is a team behind me, and all the people of my country. This success proves the great value of traditional Chinese medicine. It is indeed an honour for China's scientific research and Chinese medicine to be spread around the world.”
1. What contributes to Tu Youyou’s discovery
team up with other excellent scientists (cooperation with...)
get inspiration from TCM;
obtain support from the country
professional knowledge
good personalities (committed; patient ...)
Para 4
According to Tu Youyou, the discovery of artemisinin was a team effort. Upon hearing that she had been awarded the Nobel Prize, she said, “The honour is not just mine. There is a team behind me, and all the people of my country. This success proves the great value of traditional Chinese medicine. It is indeed an honour for China's scientific research and Chinese medicine to be spread around the world.”
2. What kind of person is Tu Youyou according to her quote
thinks little of fame and money
selfless
cooperative
modest
Para 4
team work of her team
inspiration from ancient Traditional Chinese Medicine
firm support from the country
professional knowledge
personal qualities (committed; patient; perseverant ...)
What contributes to Tu Youyou’s discovery
Post–reading: Discussion
Which do you think is more important for
making a great discovery
talent
tireless efforts
Talent or Effort
effort
talent
We need talent to learn quickly and to think sharply.
We should spare no effort to do experiment despite failure.
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% percent perspiration.
Which is more important
talent or effort
Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
——Albert Einstein
努力不是为了功成名就，而是为了成为有价值的人。

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