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Unit 1 People of Achievement
Reading & Thinking
Goals
Uderstand why Tu Youyou was awarded
Nobel Prize
1
Get the main idea of the text
2
3
Learn the good qualities of Tu Youyou
2
When it comes to people of achievement, who will you think of?
Albert Einstein
Theory of Relativity
Yuan Longping
hybrid rice
Lin Qiaozhi
mother of ten
thousand babies
Lead-in
Malaria
【reason】:mosquito
【symptoms】chill, fever, sweat
Sweet wormwood
artemisinin
extract
treatment
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Step 1: Read for Structure
Read for text type
The title
The date
The lead
The illustrations
Where would you most
likely find this passage?
In a newspaper
News story
2. Passages like this are most often written in ___ and ____?
A. the active voice/ offer many opinions
B. the first person/ talk about feelings
C. both active and passive voices / mostly
contain facts
content: more objective, accurate and convincing
Read for features
Step 2: Read for Main Idea
Match the main idea of each paragraph.
Para1
Para4
Para2
Para3
What Tu Youyou was awarded
Tu Youyou’s road of discovering the artemisinin
The details of how artemisinin was discovered
Tu Youyou’s attitude to honour
Tu Youyou awarded Nobel Prize
Introduction
Main Body
Conclusion
Paragraph ___
Paragraph ____
Paragraph ___
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine had been awarded to Tu Youyou.
The discovery of artemisinin was a team effort, according to Tu Youyou.
1
2-3
4
How artemisinin was discovered by Tu Youyou.
Step 3: Read for Details
What was the key to getting a good extract from the wormwood?
Tu Youyou’s team examined
_________________________ and evaluated_____________.
280,000 plants
over 2000 old medical texts
They found a medical text suggesting ______________________________ _________________________.
using the extract from sweet wormwood to treat a fever.
They tested _______________________.
dried wormwood leaves
They tried ________________
_________________________
but ______________________.
boiling fresh wormwood