人教课标版高中英语必修5Unit1_Reading(共26张PPT)

Great scientists Read the explanation and speak out the word it explains. 1.to cause someone or something to fail . 2. a person with a high level of knowledge or skill; a specialist . 3. a medical doctor, esp. one who has general skill and is not a surgeon. 4. sth. that makes someone with an illness healthy again. 5. to take sth. In. 6.A machine for raising water. 7.A question you ask to get information. 8. to say or think that someone or sth. did sth. wrong or is responsible for sth. bad happening seismograph Lead in Leonardo da vinci Charles Darwin 10. Who put forward a theory about black holes? JOHN SNOW DEFEATS “KING CHOLERA” Reading Cholera: It is a kind of terrible disease caused by drinking dirty water and it caused a lot of deaths in the old times and it was very difficult to defeat. 1.Find the main idea of the passage. 2.Match the main idea with each paragraph. Skimming What’s the main idea of the passage. ? A. John Snow was a well-kn