Unit 2 Inspiring People-Reading plus （课件）2025-2026学年人教版九年级英语上册

该初中英语课件围绕Edward Jenner发明天花疫苗的故事展开，核心知识点包括医学词汇、Jenner的生平时间线及疫苗研发过程。课堂导入通过Free Talking讨论“最严重的疾病”，先介绍天花的英文名称、音标及危害，再引出Jenner的身份，结合背景知识铺垫作为学习支架，帮助学生衔接后续阅读文本分析。 其亮点在于融合语言能力、思维品质和学习能力的培养，通过词汇音标学习、阅读细节提取（如事件排序）提升语言理解与表达，Thinking deeply环节引导学生按“观察-质疑-假设-实验-结论”分析Jenner的发现过程，培养逻辑思维。采用小组合作制作励志海报、课后查找现代疫苗等任务，鼓励主动探究。学生能在实践中提升综合语言运用能力，教师可借助结构化活动设计提高教学效率。

Unit 2 Inspiring People Reading plus Edward Jenner and the Battle Against Smallpox By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: 1. recognize and memorize the core medical new words of this lesson, sort out the timeline of Jenner’s life, extract text details to finish reading exercises, and fully understand the complete story of how Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine. 2. retell Jenner’s life experience with the help of time conjunctions, summarize the common good qualities of inspiring figures, and write short English introductions of characters following the examples in the textbook. 3. work in groups to select admired role models, create inspirational posters and present them in class. Reflect on the spirits of great men based on the text, and think about how to pass on positive energy to people around you. Learning Objectives Free Talking the worst disease What’s this? Smallpox Who’s this man? Edward Jenner a famous medical scientist /ˈsmɔːlpɒks/ 天花 Let’s know more about smallpox! Smallpox is a terrible contagious disease. It was one of the most deadly diseases in history. Millions of people lost their lives because of it for thousands of years. With the hard work of medical pioneers and worldwide vaccine programs, smallpox has disappeared from nature. In 1980, the WHO announced that smallpox was totally gone all over the world. So far, it is the only infectious disease that humans have completely got rid of（除掉）. /kənˈteɪdʒəs/ adj. 接触传染的；有传染性的 /ɪnˈfekʃəs/ adj. 传染的；有传染性的 He is a great pioneer in medical research. When he was young, he worked as a medical apprentice and studied medical knowledge hard. At that time, a terrible disease called smallpox spread widely and killed thousands of people. Jenner found an interesting fact: people who suffered from cowpox seldom caught smallpox. Based on this discovery, he invented the first vaccine for smallpox and saved countless lives all over the world. Let’s know more about Edward Jenner! /əˈprentɪs/ n. 学徒 /dɪˈziːz/ n. 疾病 /ˈkaʊpɒks/ n. 牛痘 /ˈvæksiːn/ n. 疫苗 /ˈkaʊntləs/ adj. 无数的；数不尽的 1 2 3 4 5 6 How many parts can we divide this passage into? Part 1 (Paragraph 1) Part 2 (Paragraphs 2–3) Part 3 (Paragraphs 4–5) A. His great discovery and achievement B. Opening introduction C. Jenner’s early life and career Skimming：Find the main ideas of each part. A. He became one of the best doctors in the world. B. He developed a new way to do science. C. He found a way to protect people from a disease. 1. Read the text. What was Edward Jenner's major achievement? Reading practice 2.Number the events in Edward Jenner's life in the order they happened. A.born in England in 1749 B. became a family doctor C. developed a vaccine for smallpox D. became a doctor's apprentice E. went to London to study there F. moved back to the countryside 1 2 3 4 5 6 1. What was Jenner interested in when he was young? 2. Why did Jenner go back to the countryside? 3. What did Jenner notice about milkmaids? 4. Where did the word "vaccine" come from? 3. Write short answers to the questions. He was interested in nature. Because he liked the countryside better. They seldom caught smallpox, but they often had cowpox. It comes from the Latin word that means “cow”. Thinking deeply 1. Why was Jenner’s discovery important? 2. Do you think vaccines are still useful today? Why? Because of Jenner’s work, smallpox is no longer around and people no longer die from it. His pioneering research has also been used to create vaccines for other diseases. How did Jenner find out that cowpox could protect people from smallpox? Thinking deeply 1. He noticed that milkmaids rarely got smallpox. 2. He wondered: Do milkmaids get protected because they get cowpox? 3. He came up an idea...... 4. He gave people cowpox first, then smallpox. 5. Cowpox can be used to protect people from smallpox. → vaccine. Observation观察 Question质疑 Hypothesis假设 Experiment实验 Conclusion结论 Curiosity, careful observation, and brave testing turned a simple question into a life-saving discovery.” Language points Smallpox used to be one of the worst global diseases. It killed millions of people in history. However, we do not hear much about it anymore. Why? Because it is no longer around in nature. This happened mainly because of the work of Edward Jenner (1749–1823), an English doctor and scientist. 曾经是 很少听说 不再存在 因为……的工作 Jenner did not have an easy childhood. His parents died when he was young, and his elder brother raised him. It was difficult for him to do well in school, but he had a passion for nature. At 13, he became an apprentice to a doctor for eight years. An apprentice is a young person who learns a job by working for someone else. It was hard for doctors to be well-respected at that time because modern medicine had not fully developed. When he was 21, he studied at a hospital in London. 童年并不轻松 对……有强烈的热爱 成为……的学徒 ……很难受到尊重 After he finished his studies, Jenner went back to his home in the countryside because he liked it more. There, he became a family doctor and people started to hear about his good work. In his free time, he continued to do research and study nature. 开始听说他的出色工作 It was while working as a doctor that Jenner discovered that milkmaids—women who milk cows—rarely got smallpox. They often got cowpox, a disease like smallpox, but these milkmaids did not get very sick and they did not die. He wondered: Do milkmaids get protected from smallpox just because they often get cowpox? 在当医生期间 很少得天花 免受……的侵害 To test this, Jenner came up with the idea of first giving some people cowpox, then giving them smallpox. These people did not get the smallpox! After many other tests, he realized that cowpox could actually be used to protect people from getting smallpox. 提出了……的想法 被用来保护人们免受…… Jenner invented a new word to describe what he had created: “vaccine”. The word comes from the Latin word for “cow”. It was wonderful that, because of Jenner’s work, smallpox is not around anymore and people no longer die from it. His pioneering research has been used to create vaccines for other diseases. 创造了一个新词 源自拉丁语中表示……的词 不再存在 不再死于......疾病 已被用来为……制造疫苗 P2 1. It was hard for doctors to be well-respected at that time because modern medicine had not fully developed.在当时，医生很难受到尊重，因为现代医学尚未完全发展起来。 形式主语“It”，不定式短语“to be well-respected”，以及原因状语从句“because modern medicine...”。 Sentence structure P4 2. It was while working as a doctor that Jenner discovered that milkmaids—women who milk cows—rarely got smallpox. 正是在当医生期间，詹纳发现挤奶女工——也就是挤牛奶的妇女——很少得天花。 强调句型“It was...that...”，宾语从句“that milkmaids...”，插入语兼定语从句“women who milk cows” P6 3. It was wonderful that, because of Jenner’s work, smallpox is not around anymore and people no longer die from it.因为詹纳的工作，天花不再存在，人们也不再死于这种疾病，这真是太棒了。 形式主语“It”，主语从句“that...”，其中插入原因状语“because of Jenner’s work”，且主语从句内包含并列句“smallpox is not... and people no longer die...”。 1.用英语写3-5句话总结Jenner的成就。 2.查找一种现代疫苗（如流感疫苗、HPV疫苗），简单介绍它的作用。 Homework $