(
课件网) START AGAIN Reading and thinking People of achievement Unit 1 What kind of life do you want？ Money House Family Money House Family What kind of life do you want？ Money House Family What kind of life do you want？ Money House Family Is this the whole of your life What kind of life do you want？ Try to become not a man of success,but try rather to become a man of value. ———Albert Einstein “ What is the video about？ 6 October 2015 What is the video about？ Tu Youyou Awarded Nobel Prize Task 1 :Read for features：answer the questions In a newspaper The title The date The lead The illustrations The illustrations A. the active voice/ offer many opinions B. the first person/ talk about feelings C. both active and passive voices / mostly contain facts 1. Where would you most likely find this passage 2. Passages like this are most often written in _____ and _____ main ideas of the passage Task 2 :Read for main ideas：Fill in the blanks The n____ about Tu Youyou winning the award and the s_____ of discovering artemisinin. Tu’s life e_____ and the research p_____ of discovering artemisinin. Tu’s c_____ on hearing the news. (her quote) Para 1 Para 2&3 Para 4 Tu Youyou's achievements The way to discover artemisinin ews ignificance xperience rocess omment & 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. What do the numbers suggest Task 3 :Read for details： hundreds of thousands of millions of 200 million 600,000 100,000 severe situation because of malaria good effects of artemisinin Read para 1 and circle all the numbers Tu Youyou, a committed and patient scientist, was born in Ningbo, China, on 30 December 1930, and graduated from Peking University Medical School in 1955. After she graduated, she worked at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. In 1967, the Chinese government formed a team of scientists with the objective of discovering a new treatment for malaria, and Tu Youyou was among the first researchers chosen. In the beginning, Tu Youyou went to Hainan, where malaria was more common, to study malaria patients. Task 3 :Read for details： Read part 2 In 1969, she became the head of the project in Beijing, and decided to review ancient Chinese medical texts to find traditional botanical treatments for the disease. Her team examined over 2,000 old medical texts, and evaluated 280.000 plants for their medical properties. From their research, they discovered and tested 380 distinct ancient Chinese medica ... ...
