吉林省长春市第五中学2014年高中英语《Unit1Greatscientists》课件新人教版必修5.ppt

Unit 1 Great Scientists Who is he? What is his achievement? A great scientist Father of Hybrid Rice The man who puts an end to hunger Quiz 1.Which scientist discovered that objects in water are lifted up by a force that helps them float? 2. Who wrote a book explaining how animals and plants developed as the environment changed? 3. Who invented the first steam engine? 4. Who used peas to show how physical characteristics are passed from parents to their children? 5. Who discovered radium? Archimedes Ancient Greek (287-212BC) He was a mathematician(数学家). He found that if you put an object into water, the water pushes the object up. It rises and partly floats. The force of the water pushing it up is the same as the weight of the object. Charles Darwin Britain (1808-1882) The Origin of Species Thomas Newcomen He made a significant contribution to the Industrial Revolution with his invention of the Steam engine. 6. Who invented the way of giving electricity to everybody in large cities? 7. Who was the painter that studied dead bodies to improve his painting of people? 8. Who invented a lamp to keep miners safe underground? 9. Who invented the earliest instrument to tell people where earthquakes happened? 10.Who put forward a theory about black holes? John Snow Defeats “King Cholera” Pre-reading: Make a prediction about what this text will be about according to the title. Extensive Reading 1.The main idea of the text Exercise Filling the blanks with useful words and expressions in the text John Snow was a very expert doctor in London. He thought about ordinary people_____________ cholera. There were two theories he became interested in. One is that cholera________ in the air, the other is that people __________ this disease into their bodies with their meals. John Snow_________ that the second theory was correct, and he determined to find out why. First, he marked on a map which gave him a valuable clue t