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John Snow Defeated King Cholera
UNIT1 SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS
Reading And Thinking
Are you familiar with these situation?
Besides coronavirus,what other kinds of epidemics do you know?
Watch a video about cholera
What are the symptoms (症状) of Cholera?
severe vomiting
(呕吐)
diarrhea
(腹泻)
dehydration(脱水)
John Snow, (born March 15, 1813, York, Yorkshire, England—died June 16, 1858, London), English royal physician known for his seminal studies of cholera and widely viewed as the father of contemporary epidemiology.
John Snow Defeats King Cholera
Look at the title and then listen to the passage to get information about the infectious disease.
Who ?
How ?
What ?
The text is mainly about ___________ and _____ he defeated ____________.
John Snow
how
Cholera
What does “ King ” imply in the title?
Cholera is powerful and hard to cure
Discuss the following stages of scientific research
in groups.What oder would you put them in?
find a problem
ask a question
think of a method
collect data
analyse the results
find supporting evidence
draw a conclusion
John Snow Defeats King Cholera
collected
analysed data
found the cause of the disease
defeated it
How?
Use the stages in examining a new scientific idea to describe each paragraph.
para1
para2
para3
para4
para5
find a problem
ask a question
collect data
find supporting evidence
draw a conclusion
What causes cholera?
Which theory is correct?
Mark information on a map to find out where people died or did not die.
Find other evidence to confirm the conclusion.
The water is to blame. The source of all drinking water should be examined so that it is safe.
P1
John Snow
A _________doctor who even attend _______________
when she gave birth.
He had desire to ________________once and for all.
famous
Queen Victoria
destroy cholera
Theory 1:
caused by ________
Theory 2:
caused by ________
an infection from germs
bad air
Which theory did he subscribe to?
What were the two contradictory theories?
P2
P3
1. What method did John Snow use?
2. What did he find on the map? What did he do to deal with it?
A map of Broad Street
Many deaths happened here.
No deaths happened here.
beer pub
Find supporting evidence & Draw a conclusion
Place
Person
Event
In another part of London
A woman and her daughter
Died of cholera because of drinking the water delivered from the pump
Remove the handle of the pump
The disease was stopped.
Pump water carried the cholera germs.
Read from Para.2-3 again and complete the chart below.
A: It was believed that cholera was caused by bad ____ or germs in _______________.
C: Many deaths occurred near the ___________ in Broad Street.
Some people __________ drunk the water from the pump, and lived.
D: The pump water carried
____________.
E: The _______ of the pump was removed.
B:Snow___________________the places where the people who _____ had lived
A woman and her daughter died in another part of London after ___________
_____________.
air
food or water
marked on the map
died
water pump
hadn’t
drinking water from the pump
cholera germs
handle
P4
The water from the Broad Street pump had been infected by waste.Some companies sold water from the River Thames that was polluted by .
What caused the outbreak of cholera in London in 1854?
raw waste
P5
Water companies began to sell clean water.
The threat of cholera around the world saw a substantial decrease.
We know how to prevent cholera thanks to the work of John Snow.
Snow transformed the way scientists study diseases.
What contributions did John Snow make?
Ask questions
One way to approach a reading passage is to ask questions about it.Asking questions can help you understand the cotent .It can also help you think more deeply about the topic.
Post Reading
Write out the questions according to the answer.
A:Snow thought that cholera was caused by germs in food or water.
A:Snow had the handle of the pump removed so that it could not be used.
Q:What
Q:Why
did John Snow think caused the cholera?
did John Snow have the handle from the pump removed?
Q:How
was the cholera?
A:The cholera threat was defeated thanks to the work of John Snow.
What qualities do you think the John has?
brave
determined
strong-willed
detail-oriented (注重细节的)
rigorous (严谨的) / careful
hard-working
innovative (创新的)
passionate(有激情的)
ambitious
deligent
Suppose you were a time traveler and happened to be the assistant of John Snow,can you give the boy some advice on saving his father?
Combined with the modern medical knowledge,how to prevent the cholera?
Safe Water (安全用水)
- Drink: Boiled/chlorinated/filtered water (煮沸/氯化/过滤水)
- Avoid: Untreated water (未处理水)
- Store: Clean, covered containers (干净密封容器)
Sanitation & Hygiene (卫生防疫)
- Toilets: Improved facilities (改良卫生设施) → No open defecation (禁止露天排便)
- Hands: Soap + safe water (肥皂+安全水) → Before eating/after toilet (饭前便后)
- Surfaces: Disinfect (消毒) → Kitchen counters/doorknobs (厨房台面/门把手)
Combined with the modern medical knowledge,how to prevent the cholera?
Food Safety (食品安全)
- Eat: Thoroughly cooked, hot food (彻底煮熟的热食)
- Avoid: Raw seafood (生海鲜)/undercooked food (未煮熟食物)/unpasteurized dairy (未巴氏杀菌乳制品)
- Fruits/Veggies: Peel (削皮) or wash with safe water (用安全水清洗)
Vaccination & Public Health (疫苗与公共卫生)
- Vaccines: OCVs (口服霍乱疫苗) → High-risk areas (高风险地区)
- Education: Public prevention campaigns (公共预防宣传)
- Response: Water testing (水质检测) + patient isolation (患者隔离)
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