Reading(1)：Twolife-savingmedicines.pptx

1、Reading,presented by Wang Dan,a life-saving medicine: artemisinin,tmisnn,Two life-saving medicines,Paragraph 1,aspirin,penicillin,significance,popularity,contributions,Reading strategy 1: Headings appear before each section and they are the first thing to look at.,Reading strategy 2: Predicting info

2、rmation,1.Asprin was invented in 1928. 2. Within a short time, aspirin became the best-selling medicine in the world for killing bacteria. 3. Penicillin became the greatest drug of the 20th century, saving millions of lives. 4. In 1945, the three scientists, Fleming, Florey and Chain, shared the Nob

3、el Prize in Medicine for their work.,Go through the passage and judge T/F.,F,F,T,T,Reading strategy 3: Scanning the article for key words and phrases, dates, numbers and so on.,Look for key information to answer the questions.,1. What did people do to reduce body pains and fever nearly 3500 years ag

4、o? 2. What is the special chemical? 3. Who produced aspirin from this chemical?4. When did the first trials of the medicine take place? 5. In what form was aspirin sold in shops in 1900?,Learn the history of aspirin,People chewed on leaves or drank a kind of tea.,Hippocrates made a juice from a tree

5、 bark.,Dr Felix Hoffmann produced aspirin,a company distributed the medicine in powder form to physicians to use with patients,aspirin was sold in shops in the form of tablets,List the six functions of aspirin.,fever,pain,heart,attacks,strokes,cancers,blood,sugar,Reading strategy 4: understanding me

6、dical terms.,Analyze the development of penicillin. Find out the significance, discovery and problems.,helps increase the standard of peoples health and is considered by many to be one of the most important medicines in the world,unable to find a procedure to make it pure enough having difficulty pr

7、oducing penicillin in the ample quantities needed to be effective,Finish the timeline about the development of penicillin.,1944,1940,Read the article and finish the exercises using the reading strategies we learned today.,Whats main idea of this passage? Three scientists jointly won the 2015 Nobel P

8、rize for medicine for their work against diseases.,2. How much money did Tu get from the Nobel Prize?,8 million Swedish crowns,640,000 US dollars,4 million Swedish crowns,320,000 US dollars,A,B,C,D,3. Why was Tu Youyou awarded the Nobel Prize? Because her discovery has greatly reduced the death rate

9、 caused by malaria.,4. What can we learn about malaria from this report?,A. It is a kind of parasite disease B. Mosquitoes suffer a lot from it C. Little progress has been made in controlling it in the past 10 years D. More than a million babies and young kids arekilled by it annually,5. “These two discoveries” in the last paragraph refer to: _ and _.,Homework:,Read th