选择性必修一UNIT 1  People of achievement  READING AND THINKING

UNIT 1   People of achievement

READING AND THINKING

Warming-up

Encourage the students to answer the questions based on the picture.

Possible questions:

Who is the woman in the photo?

What is happening in this photo?

What more can you find from this photo?

Possible answers:

In this photo, Tu Youyou is receiving the award from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden（瑞典国王卡尔十六世·古斯塔夫）.

The Nobel Prize award ceremony was held in a magnificent hall. Everyone was standing up when Tu Youyou received her award.

Leading-in

Ask the students to answer the questions below:

Look at the pictures, what do you think the text is about?

Where would you most likely find this passage?

In a blog.

In a book.

In a letter.

In a newspaper.

Activity 1

Read and discuss:

Which information are involved in the passage?

A.A quote from Tu Youyou.

B.The details of how artemisinin was discovered.

C.Tu Youyouo's important contributions other than the discovery of

artemisinin.

D.TuYouyou's personal life.

E.Tu Youyou's road to discovering artemisinin.               

F.What Tu Youyou was awarded.

Activity 2

Randomly ask the students to answer the questions.

Activity 3

Guide students to sort out the language points of the article.

Nobel Prize for Medicine诺贝尔医学奖

award sb sth = award sth to sb授予某人某物

a crucial treatment for malaria至关重要的抗疟疾药物

die from死于

a committed and patient scientist坚定有耐心的科学家

the China Academy of Traditional

Chinese Medicine中国中医科学院

with the objective of 以……为目标

get stuck陷入僵局

acknowledge defeat认输

by chance偶然

insist on doing sth坚持做某事

test the medicine on sb在某人身上测试药物

upon hearing that一听到……

scientific research科学研究

other than除了

Activity 4

Write a letter using the language points of the article.

Write a letter to Tu Youyou in 120 words, in which you should cover:

Your gratitude for her achievement.

What you have learnt from her.

Your future actions to pursue dreams.

Possible answers:

Leader, head, soul, backbone…

Responsible, self-sacrificing, brave; leadership, core, spirit, soul …

S1: I think she was the true leader of the team. Because she is very decisive and intelligent. She was the one who decided the route of TCM research to find effective substance.

S2: She is also the backbone of the team. When plenty of experiments failed, her team members must want to give up on wormwood. But as the text says, Tu would not acknowledge to defeat. She insisted on carrying on with the research, which finally led to success.