Book 1 Unit 10.ppt

Contents Louis Pasteur 路易·巴斯德（法国化学家及微生物学家） is a French scientist who made a number of great contributions to mankind. His pioneering contributions are: 1. Pasteurization Discovering and initiating as the first one the method of preserving food without using modern technology. 2. rabies vaccination Studying into the approach of curing rabies and successfully finding the way to prevent it. Rabies It is a virus that usually transmitted by a bite from a wild infected animal, such as a bat or a dog. If a bite from a rabid animal goes untreated and rabies develops, it is almost always fatal. About 50,000 people die from rabies each year, mostly in developing countries where programs for vaccinating dogs against rabies don’t exist. Background Information Cultural Notes Treatment At the hospital, the doctor will first clean the wound thoroughly and make sure that the patients tetanus immunizations are current. To keep any potential infection from spreading, the doctor may decide to start treating your child right away with shots of human rabies immune globulin to the wound site and vaccine shots in the arm. Prevention You can reduce the chances that your family is exposed to rabies. Vaccinate your pets, as dogs, cats, and ferrets can be infected by rabies. Lead-in What do you know about the prominent French biologist Louis Pasteur? Lead-in Can you think of a way to preserve food for a certain period of time without using modern techniques? Lead-in Though rabies cannot be cured, there is a way to prevent it from happening. What do you know about it? Text Structure Part I: A brief introduction to the outstanding French scientist, Louis Pasteur. (Paragraph 1) Part II: His childhood and educational background before his marriage. (Paragraph 2-6) Text Structure Text Structure Sentence Study He developed a process of gently heating foodstuffs like milk to kill these organisms without changing the flavor or nutritional value. This process, named “pasteurizat