Unit 1 People of achievement Reading and Thinking 说课稿-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第一册

Tu Youyou Awarded Nobel Prize示范课 Hello, boys and girls. It's such a great honor to have you with me in this English class. I'm your new English teacher Majella. At the very beginning of this class, I want to invite you to observe the plant on the screen. Do you know what it is? Great, you know its Chinese name Qinghao. It is called sweet wormwood in English. Do you know its function? Actually, the extract of sweet wormwood, which is called artemisinin, can be used to treat malaria, a deadly disease and guys, do you know who discovered artemisinin? Wonderful. I'm impressed. Yes, it is屠呦呦. She is also the leading character of today's passage, but before reading let's go over the four words. Follow me, please. Sweet wormwood, sweet wormwood, extract, extract, artemisinin, artemisinin, malaria, malaria.         Now please take out your hand out. When it comes to a long passage like this, what should we read first? Yes, the title. Boys and girls much attention should be paid to the date under the title. Can you guess where we possibly read this passage? Good job. We possibly read this passage in the newspaper. So based on the title, we know the text type-news.We have learned the structure of news in the first year of high school. Tell me boys and girls which paragraph provides us with the most important information about the news. Yes, the lead of the news which is usually the first paragraph. The lead of the news usually includes the five elements including who, when, where, what and why.Now, boys and girls, please fast read paragraph one and answer the question: Why was the Nobel Prize awarded to Tu Youyou? One minute. Here we go. Now time's up. Let's check the answer. Why was the Nobel Prize awarded to Tu Youyou? Because her research lead to the discovery of artemisinin,a crucial treatment for malaria which saved many lives. Let me challenge you to another question, how did the author prove the significance of artemisinin? Yes, the author used many numbers. So I wou