必修5Unit1Reading.pptVIP

Reading What should you do if youre travelling to a country that has a cholera outbreak? Drink only water that you have boiled or treated with chlorine or iodine. Other safe drinks include tea or coffee made with boiled water and carbonated, bottled beverages with no ice. Group Discussion 1. John Snow believed Idea 2 was right. How did he finally prove it? John Snow finally proved his idea because he found an outbreak that was clearly related to cholera, collected information and was able to tie cases outside the area to the polluted water. 3. Cholera is a 19th century disease. What disease do you think is similar to cholera today? Two diseases, which are similar today, are SARS and AIDS because they are both serious, have an unknown cause and need public health care to solve them. * John Snow defeats “King Cholera” I. Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks. Many people died of cholera. John Snow tried to find out its _____and ____ People drank water from the pump in______Street. Most died. cause cure Broad Families were given free beer in the pub at__________Street. People removed the ______from the water pump. People had no________ The disease ___________ Cambridge deaths handle slowed down _______ water carried the disease. Theory 2 that people ________the disease with their meals proved right. And theory 1 was wrong. ________ the source of all the water supplies. Polluted absorbed Examine II. True (T) or false (F): 1. Cholera would never be controlled even if its cause was found. 2. The disease attacked the body quickly from the stomach and soon the affected person died. 3. John Snow began to collect the information before the disease spread. F T F 4. In two particular streets, 500 people died in 10 days when another outbreak hit London in 1854. 5. Deaths of the woman and her daughter were linked to the Broad Street outbreak. 6. Only ordinary people died when cholera broke out. F T F Germany Great Britain Death o