課程內(nèi)容
《Great scientists（Part 1）》
Warming Up
There are some great scientific achievements that have changed the world. Can you name some of them? What kind of role do they play in the field of science? Do these achievements have anything in common? Match the inventions with their inventors below before you answer all these questions.
Alexander Bell electricity
Thomas Edison the First telephone
Laite Brotheres the electric Lamp
Madame Curie black holes in Universe
Franklin Theory of Gravity
Steven Hawking the First Plane
Elbert Einstein Radium
IsaacNewton the Theory of Relativity
What qualities a scientist should have to achieve such a great achievement?
Good observation IsaacNewton
Perseverance Marie Curie
Strong determination StevenHawking
Creative AlbertEinstein
Clever and strict Edison
Logical thinking and scientific methods...
Analysis of the reading passage:
There are two clues to understand this reading passage. First, the reading passage is written as stages in an experiment. Second, it introduces us a story about how John Snow discovers and controls the disease cholera, So we must understand both the scientific methods and the plot of the story.
Scientific methods:
Stages in an experiment
1 find a problem
2 make a question
3 think of a method
4 collect analyze results
5 find supporting evidence
6 draw a conclusion
Background
What do you know about infectious diseases?
Infections diseases can be spread to other people. They have an unknown cause and need public health care to solve them.Birdflu, SARS are infections diseases which are difficult to cure.
Read paragraph 1-3 and answer questions:
1.What do you know about Dr.John Snow's being well-known in London?
He ___Queen Vitoria as her personal physician.
2.From what disease did Londoners suffer in his age?
3.Did pople know how to ___ the disease?
4.When did Dr.Snow think the disease would be controlled?
5.What was the second theory explaining how the disease killed people?
6.How serious was the disease outbreak in London?
1.But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people exposed to cholera.
但當(dāng)他想到要幫助那些得了霍亂的普通老百姓時(shí)，他就感到很振奮。
2.Neither its cause nor its cure was understood. So many thousands of terrified people died every thime there was an outbreak.
人們既不知道它的病源，也不了解它的治療方法，所以每次爆發(fā)霍亂的時(shí)候，就有大批驚恐的百姓病死。
3.The second suggested that people absorbed this disease into their bodies with their meals. From the stomach the disease quickly attacked the body and soon the affected person died.第二種看法是吃飯的時(shí)候人們把這種病毒引入體內(nèi)，病從胃里發(fā)作而迅速殃及全身，患者就會(huì)很快死去。
