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Unit 1 Science and Scientists
Reading and Thinking
Warming-up
Look at the picture and discuss the following questions.
1) How would you describe the photo?
2) What scientific equipment can you see in a science laboratory?
3) Would you like to work in such a field in the future? Why or why not?
4) What qualities do you need to be a scientist?
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Learn about the scientific equipment in a science laboratory.
Safety goggles 防护眼镜
Glass rod 玻璃棒
Beaker 烧杯
Gauze mat 石棉网
Tripod 三脚架
Bunsen burner 本生灯
Stand 托架
Test tube 试管
Test tube rack 试管架
Flask 烧瓶
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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
—Albert Einstein & Leopold Infeld
How do you understand the quote?
提出新的问题,发现新的可能,从新的角度审视已存在的问题,这些需要创造性的想象力,并标志着科学的真正进步。
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Appreciate other quotes.
You cannot teach a man anything.
You can only help him find it within himself.
—Galileo Galilei
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
—Albert Einstein
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
—Marie Curie
Pre-reading
Discuss the following stages of scientific research and then put them in the right order.
____ analyse the results ____ ask a question
____ draw a conclusion ____ collect data
____ find a problem
____ find supporting evidence
____ think of a method
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Pre-reading
Reading skill:
What can you learn from the title and the pictures?
John Snow Defeats “King Cholera”
a well-known British doctor
who attended to Queen Victoria
How to read the map?
Part of Snow’s Cholera map
Who?
What?
How?
Why is it called “King Cholera”?
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While-reading
John Snow Defeats “King Cholera”
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3
Para 4
Para 5
The __________ of cholera
Two contradictory _________ about how cholera spread
The ________of the research about c