内容正文:
People of Achievement
Unit 1
Reading and Thinking
Who is the woman in the photo?
What is happening in the photo?
What’s the reaction of people present when this is happening? why?
Everyone present is standing up to show respect and admiration to her.
She is Tu Youyou.
She is being awarded the Nobel Prize.
Lead in
malaria 疟疾
artemisinin
青蒿素
Malaria
【reason】:mosquito
【symptoms】chill(着凉), fever(发热), sweat(出汗)
extract 提取物
sweet wormwood 青蒿
cure
Pre-reading
Pre-reading
Skimming: Read the title and answer the questions.
1. Where would you most likely find this passage?
A In a blog B In a book
C In a letter D In a newspaper
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
To be more objective and more convincing.
If you were the journalist, what would you write in this text according to the title?
5W & 1H
1. Who is Tu Youyou?
4. Why was she awarded the Nobel Prize?
3. What did she do to win the prize?
5. What’s the significance of discovering artemisinin?
6. How did she discover artemisinin?
......
2. When/Where was she awarded the Nobel Prize?
Prediction
Scanning:Match the main idea with each paragraph
Tu’s response to the award
The introduction of Tu Youyou and her team
The discovery of the artemmisinin
Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize
3. Which two pieces of information were not included in the text?
A A quote from Tu Youyou.
B The details of how artemisinin was discovered.
C Tu Youyou’s important contributions other
than the discovery of artemisinin.
D Tu Youyou’s personal life.
E Tu Youyou’s road to discovering artemisinin.
F What Tu Youyou was awarded.
G Why artemisinin is an important discovery.
Para. 4
Para. 3
Para. 2-3
Para. 1
Para. 1
Fast reading
Careful reading
1. Read the NEWS LEAD and answer the questions.
1) Find "when, what, who, why".
2) Circle the numbers and think of what they suggest.
When
What
Who
Why
Malaria is a very serious global disease.
Artemisinin has good effects and saves a huge number of lives.
Find two adjectives describing artemisinin.
_______ on 30 Dec. 1930. Ningbo, China
was born
Timeline
Part 2: Para 2 & 3
_________ from Peking University
graduated
_________ to be the first researchers to...
was chosen
became the ______ of the project in Beijing
head
_________ in discovering artemisinin
succeeded
was ________ the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
awarded
1930
1955
1967
1969
1971
2015
Part 2: Para 2 & 3
How was artemisinin discovered?
…… In 1969, she became the head of the project in Beijing, and decided to review ancient Chinese medical texts to find traditional botanical treatments for the disease. Her team examined over 2, 000 old medical texts, and evaluated 280,000 plants for their medical properties. From their research, they discovered and tested 380 distinct ancient Chinese medical treatments that showed promise in the fight against malaria.
One medical text from the fourth century suggested using the extract from sweet wormwood to treat a fever. Tu's team tested a collection of dried wormwood leaves but found no effect. They then tried boiling fresh wormwood, and using the liquid obtained from this to treat malaria, but this did not work either. Their project got stuck. However, Tu Youyou would not acknowledge defeat. She analysed the medical texts again, and by chance, she found one sentence suggesting a different way to treat the wormwood. She concluded that boiling the sweet wormwood apparently destroyed its medical properties. Using a lower temperature to draw out the extract, she found a substance that worked. After failing more than 190 times, the team finally succeeded in 1971. Tu Youyou and her team members even insisted on testing the medicine on themselves to make sure that it was safe. Later, the medicine was tested on malaria patients, most of whom recovered. ……
Part 2: Para 2 & 3
Careful reading
3. Read Para. 2 & 3 and complete the flow chart on page 3.
literature review
laboratory experiments
clinical trials
Can you divide the research into three parts?
Careful reading
3. Read Para. 2 & 3 and complete the flow chart on page 3.
literature review
Tu Youyou's team examined ________________________, and evaluated ________________________________.
over 2,000 old medical texts
280,000 plants for medical properties
Why?
They discovered and tested _________________________.
380 distinct ancient Chinese medical treatments
Careful reading
3. Read Para. 2 & 3 and complete the flow chart on page 3.
literature review
What do these numbers suggest?
1. The research involved (涉及) huge amounts of work.
2. The research was long and difficult.
3. They show Tu's team's perseverance and devotion.
~ persistence in scientific research.
Careful reading
3. Read Para. 2 & 3 and complete the flow chart on page 3.
literature review
They found a medical text suggesting
__________________________________.
using the extract from sweet wormwood
“青蒿一握,以水二升渍,绞取汁,尽服之”
Careful reading
3. Read Para. 2 & 3 and complete the flow chart on page 3.
① They tested ______________________.
dried wormwood leaves
succeed
fail
Research Report
√
② They tried _______________________ but __________________.
boiling fresh wormwood
this did not work
succeed
fail
③ They used a ______________________
___________ the sweet wormwood extract.
succeed
fail
√
√
lower temperature to
draw out
laboratory experiments
clinical trials
Careful reading
3. Read Para. 2 & 3 and complete the flow chart on page 3.
They tested the medicine _____________ to see if safe.
on themselves
They tested the medicine on ___________________.
malaria patients
The medicine became __________________ for malaria.
a standard treatment
Careful reading
4. Read Para. 4 and answer the questions.
What contributes to Tu Youyou's discovery?
team work
support from the country
inspiration from traditional Chinese medicine
professional knowledge
personal qualities
( committed ; patient...)
Post-reading
1. Summarize the personal qualities of Tu Youyou.
committed(专注投入的)
patient(有耐心的)
Tu Youyou, a committed and patient scientist, was born in Ningbo, China.
perseverant
(锲而不舍的)
However, Tu Youyou would not acknowledge defeat.
After failing more than 190 times, the team finally succeeded in 1971.
fearless(无畏的)
selfless(无私的)
Tu Youyou and her team members even insisted on testing the medicine on themselves to make sure that it was safe.
According to Tu Youyou, the discovery of artemisinin was a team effort.
"The honour is not just mine. There is a team behind me, and all the people of my country."
modest (谦虚的)
patriotic (爱国的)
creative
(有创造力的)
Post-reading
2. Suppose that your friend Mike, an exchange student from the USA, wants to know something about the Chinese Nobel winner, Tu Youyou. Try to use some simple words to make a short introduction.
Example:
Tu Youyou is a ___________________ scientist. She was awarded _________________ for discovering _________________________, which has saved numerous lives.
Her research was full of difficulties. She had failed __________________________, but she finally ______________________________________________. She even ____________
_____________________________________________________________________________________.
Tu Youyou is _____________ and ______________. She believes the achievement is a ____________ effort instead of personal glory. Her devotion inspires all of us.
committed and patient
the Nobel Prize
artemisinin
more than 190 times
extracted the artemisinin from wormwood
tested the medicine on herself to make sure that it was safe
selfless
modest
team
Retelling
Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2015 for her research, _____ led to the discovery of artemisinin. Artemisinin __________ (save) a large number of lives since it was discovered. After _________ (graduate) from university, Tu Youyou worked at the China Academy of traditional Chinese Medicine. In 1967, Tu Youyou __________ (choose) as a researcher of a team of scientists with ___ purpose of discovering a new treatment for malaria. They ________ (evaluate) 280,000 plants and tested 380 distinct ancient Chinese medical ________ (treat). One medical text suggested using the extract from sweet wormwood to treat a fever. Tu Youyou analyzed the medical texts again, and ___ chance, she found one sentence suggesting a different way. Soon she found a substance that worked by ______ (boil) the sweet wormwood at a lower temperature. The team's hard work eventually paid off in 1971.
Tu Youyou thought the discovery of artemisinin was a team effort and the Nobel Prize was an honor for China’s _________ (science) research and Chinese medicine to be spread around the world.
which
has saved
graduating
was chosen
the
evaluated
treatments
by
boiling
scientific
a news report
Title: Tu Youyou awarded the Nobel Prize
Introduction
(Para. 1)
Body
(Para 2-3)
Conclusion
(Para 4)
who, when, what, why
How to find the artemisinin
Tu Youyou’s attitude to honour
Summary
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