(
课件网) Period 1 Reading and Thinking Unit 1 People of Achievement Tu Youyou（屠呦呦） She is being awarded the Nobel Prize. Everyone present is giving her a standing ovation to show respect and admiration. What is happening in the photo Zhong Nanshan Yuan Longping Albert Einstein Tang Hongbo Tang Shengjie Jiang Xinlin Leading-in 1. Who is the woman in the photo 2. What is happening in this photo 3. What more can you find from this photo Look & discuss She is Tu Youyou. She was awarded Nobel Prize. Tu Youyou received her prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden during the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony at Concert Hall in Stockholm(斯德哥尔摩), Sweden. If you were the journalist, what would you write in this text according to the title 5W & 1H 1. Who is Tu Youyou 4. Why was she awarded the Nobel Prize 3. What did she do to win the prize 5. What’s the significance of discovering artemisinin 6. How did she discover artemisinin ...... 2. When/Where was she awarded the Nobel Prize Prediction Para. 1 Para. 3 Para.2 Para.4 B. The honor of the discovery. Tu’s way to the treatment for malaria. C. The significance of Tu’s discovery. D. The discovery of the artemisinin. Task 1: Fast reading 1. Match the main ideas with each paragraph. Skills: try to find out who, when, why, where and what. It mainly talks about _____ achievement and her way to _____ which saves lots of people worldwide. Tu Youyou's find out the artemisinin 2. What does the passage mainly talk about 4. Where would you most likely find this passage A. In a blog. B. In a book. C. In a letter. D. In a newspaper. 3. What is the writing style of the passage News. 1930 Tested the medicine on themselves and later on patients. The medicine became a standard treatment for malaria. 1955 Chosen to be the first researchers to discover a new treatment for malaria. Graduated from Peking University Medical School 1969 Born in Ningbo, China 1971 Became the head of the project in Beijing and decided to find traditional botanical treatments for the disease. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. 1. Find out what happened to Tu in the following years. 1967 Tu and her discovery 2015 Task 2: Careful reading Match the main idea with each paragraph. Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize for discovering artemisinin. Tu Youyou's personal experiences. The process of discovering artemisinin. The significance of the event. Read for structure Read for details Part 1: Para 1 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 y ... ...
