高中英语unit17 period1课件.pptVIP

Women can hold up half of the sky. * * Unit17 Great Women Period1 Warming Up A Chinese saying goes: Leading-in A debate: Women are able to do more than men? Girls are pros: Women are able to do more than men. Boys are cons: Men are able to do more than women. As men are able to do what they can, so are women; no one can do more than the other in everything. Women from all nations have made contributions to the world. Who were they? 2. Where were they from? 3. What kind of work did they do? 4. What made them famous? Warming up Group work She married Dr Sun Zhongshan in 1915. She was vice-president of the People’s Republic for many years. She busied herself with welfare (福利）activities. She was a patriot and internationalist. Song Qingling (1893-1981) Madame Curie (1867-1934) She was born in Poland. She discovered radium and radioactive materials. In 1911 she received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Pearl S.Buck (1892-1973) She was born in the USA but grew up in Zhejiang Province after her parents moved to China in 1895. In 1931 she wrote her best-known novel, The Good Earth. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature. * *