内容正文:
高中英语新人教版选择性必修二
SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS
XB2U1-1 Reading for Writing
读写
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Albert Einstein
Changed our understanding of the universe
Yuan Longping
A Pioneer for All People
Lin Qiaozhi
Mother of ten thousand babies
Tu Youyou
Discovered the artemisinin
Lead in
How would you describe them?
Lead in
Do you know them?
Qian Xuesen
The Father of China's Missiles & Aerospace
The King of the Rocket
Be Awarded with the Medal of Two Bombs and One Satellite
Lead in
Do you know them?
Stephen Hawking
Big bang theory
A Brief History of Time
Pre-Reading
The father of China’s Aerospace
A world of pure thought
What questions do you ask when seeing the title?
What do you think the texts may be about?
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Activity1:Skimming
Answer the questions below using the information from the texts.
1. Why was Qian called "the father of China's aerospace"?
2. What does “A world of pure thought” mean?
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1. What information about Qian Xuesen/Stephen Hawking is included?
2. How is the information organized? What do you think is the style of the text?
Activity 2:Skimming
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Qian Xuesen:
para1: Introduction
para2—5 Education,work experience and achievements
(order of time)
para6: His personality
para7: His death and people’s appreciation of him
Stephen Hawking:
para 1: Introduction
para2: The reason for his fame (story/example)
Para 3: Characteristics that made him genius/great.
Biography
(general -specific-general)
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1. What important personalities and qualities Qian Xuesen had helped him earn the name of “ the father of China's aerospace”?
2. What personality and qualities in Stephen Hawking helped him with his work and made him one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries?
Find words and examples/stories that describe their personalities and qualities of them?
Activity 3:
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The father of China’s Aerospace
Passage 1
Perhaps no other scientist has had a greater impact on China’s aerospace science than Qian Xuesen. Described by the authors of the St