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Unit 1 Great people ---Reading
Confucius
William Shakespeare
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Chen Wangdao P14
Marie Curie居里夫人
Tu Youyou
Lead in
Who is she?
Tu Youyou
Job: scientist
What is her contribution to the world?
What is her/his contribution to the world?
artemisinin
/ˌɑːtɪˈmiːsɪnɪn /
青蒿素
malaria
/məˈleəriə/
疟疾 nüè jí
Contribution: Tu Youyou discovered qinghaosu, one of the world’s most effective treatments for malaria.
有效的
治疗方案
ineffective 无效的
come to effect 生效
treat 治疗;对待
Lead in
Who are they?
Tu Youyou
Job: scientist
Pablo Picasso
Job: artist
Ludwing van Beethoven
Job: composer
作曲家
Nicolaus Copernicus
哥白尼
Job: astronomer
天文学家
What is her/his contribution to the world?
Pablo Picasso
Job: artist
What is her/his contribution to the world?
《亚威农少女》(Les Demoiselles D’Avignon)是由西班牙画家毕加索创作于1907年的一幅油画,是第一张被认为有立体主义倾向的作品。现藏于纽约现代艺术博物馆。
Contribution: He helped create a new style of art called Cubism. He changed people’s ideas about art.
/ˈkjuːbɪz(ə)m/
立体主义
Ludwing van Beethoven
Job: composer
作曲家
What is her/his contribution to the world?
Contribution: He created some of the most influential music in history. He changed many traditional forms of Western classical music.
古典主义音乐
有影响力的
have an influence/impact on
= play an important role in
= make a difference to
对……有影响,起重要作用
deaf 耳聋的;失聪的
Nicolaus Copernicus
哥白尼
Job: astronomer
天文学家
What is her/his contribution to the world?
Poland
波兰国家银行
Contribution: He found out that the Earth and the other planets travel around the Sun. His discovery changed the way people viewed the solar system.
discovery 发现
太阳系
Who is she?
Before reading
Look at the title, what do you want to know?
What makes people outstanding?
Her story?
Her contribution to the world?
While reading for main idea
1. What is the genre (体裁) of this passage?
A. A science fiction story
B. A biographical article (人物传记)
C. A poetry appreciation essay
D. A historical novel
2. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. To introduce Wang Zhenyi’s family life in the Qing dynasty.
B. To explain how Wang Zhenyi built her lunar eclipse model.
C. To show Wang Zhenyi’s achievements in science and poetry.
D. To encourage more girls to study science like Wang Zhenyi.
B
skimming
C
While reading for structure
①
②
③
④
⑤
⑥
Her ideas
Her achievements
Her education
Who
How she is remembered
reading strategy:
a mind map
How can we introduce great people?
While reading for details
Who
Name
Job / professions
1768
1797
/ˌspeʃiˈæləti / (特长): poetry
Read para.1, what can you get from it?
女性 male 男性
数学家
天文学家
有……的天赋
a female mathematician & an astronomer
Speciality
Died
Born
Wang Zhenyi
While reading for details
Read para.2, what can you get from it?
1.What can we infer about Wang Zhenyi from the second paragraph?
A. Her family was very rich and powerful in the Qing dynasty.
B. She received education from different family members at home.
C. She had to fight against her family to study science as a girl.
D. Her grandfather only allowed her to read books in his library as a teenager.
B
n. + 定从
重视
作为
learn ... from ...向某人学习……
sb. spends / spent time doing sth.
=It takes/took (sb.) time to do
*改写句子 题型
Her education
While reading for details
Read para.3, answer questions.
2.Why did Wang Zhenyi create a simpler method of multiplication and division?
A. Because she wanted to prove she was smarter than Mei Wending.
B. Because she found old science books were hard for common people to
understand.
C. Because her father asked her to make math easier for children to learn.
D. Because she needed it to help her with her studies of astronomy.
B
即使
make sb. do 使某人做某事
in a + adj. way 用一种……的方式
以便,为了,引导目的状语从句
re-前缀,表“再,又”
Her achievements
While reading for details
Read para.4, answer questions.
3.What did Wang Zhenyi use to represent the Moon in her lunar eclipse model?
A. A round table B. A lamp C. A round mirror D. A ball
4. What’s her contribution to the world?
C
日食和月食
作品
=symbol 标志,象征
生某人的气
宾从
完全地
以便;为了
建立=built
组成
代表
宾从
进入
Achievements
While reading for details
Read para.5, answer questions.
4.What can we learn from Wang Zhenyi’s poem?
A. She thought women were less intelligent than men.
B. She believed women could also be as great as men.
C. She was worried about the education of girls in the Qing dynasty.
D. She wrote many poems about science and astronomy.
B
除了……之外(包括在内)
不同寻常地
不少于
Her new ideas
正如我们所看到的
make sb. do 使某人做某事
→被动:sb. was/is made to do
被要求做某事
While reading for details
Read para.6, answer questions.
5. The underlined word "it" in the last paragraph refers to ______.
A. her book about multiplication B. her model of a lunar eclipse
C. her short life on Earth D. the crater on Venus
6. What is the way people remember her?
C
name A after B → 以B给A命名
陨石坑
金星
由于
adj. + that从句
Post reading
First, she broke the old idea that women were less capable than men. Her poems and scientific work showed that women could also be great scholars.
Second, she believed science should be easy to understand for everyone. She simplified math problems and made a simple model to explain eclipses, which is very similar to how science is taught today.
Read the article again and answer the questions below.
Do you think Wang Zhenyi was ahead of her time? If so, in what way?
超前
Post reading
Her work was so important that a crater on Venus was named after her.
her curiosity
She overcame difficult old science books to learn math and astronomy
her creativity
She then rewrote them in simple ways so everyone could understand.
her courage
She also broke old ideas by proving women could be great scholars.
What made Wang Zhenyi an outstanding woman scholar?
What can you learn from her?
Post reading
Never stop learning and exploring, no matter how difficult things seem.
Her courage to challenge unfair ideas and believe in herself also teaches me to be confident.
we can make the world better by sharing knowledge and making complex things easy to understand.
Post reading:
retell
How can we introduce great people?
a female mathematician & an astronomer who lived in Qing Danysty
a female mathematician & an astronomer
She learnt mathematics from her father, astronomy from her grandfather and poetry from her grandmother.
She spent a lot of time studying and building her knowledge in her grandfather’s library.
She rewrote the mathematician Men Wending’s famous book about calculation.
She created a simpler method of multiplication and division and wrote a book about it.
She described lunar and solar eclipses in her way.
women are no less intelligent than men.
IAV named a crater on Venus after Wang Zhenyi
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