高二英语Unit1 课件 人教版.ppt

You cannot teach a man anything; you can help him find it within himself. Some great people who are disabled Zhang Haidi a writer Beethoven a musician Sang Lan a gymnast Zheng Zhihua a singer Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Stephen William Hawking Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 (300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford, England. At eleven Stephen went to St Albans School, and then on to University College, Oxford. Stephen then went on to Cambridge to do research in Cosmology, college. After gaining his Ph.D. he became first a Research Fellow, Stephen Hawking has worked on the basic laws which govern the universe. With Roger Penrose he showed that Einsteins General Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes. Stephen Hawking has three popular books published; his best seller A Brief History of Time, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays and most recently in 2001. Professor Hawking has twelve honorary degrees, He was awarded many medals and prizes and is a Fellow of The Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences(英国皇家学会会员和美国科学院外籍院士). Stephen Hawking continues to combine family life (he has three children and one grandchild), and his research together with travel and public lectures True or false Hawking was told that he had an incurable disease when he was just 21 years old. Finally Hawking had to give up PhD and his research. He and Roger Penrose made new discoveries about the Big Bang and black holes. “A Brief History of Time” is too difficult for people to understand. Science is about true facts that never change. When Hawking gives lectures, he always speaks through a computer. T F T T F F skimming No giving up. ___ People’s attitude to Hawking ___ Facing the frustrated life. ___ Science in Hawking’s eyes ___ Ways of becoming famous ___ How to shape scientific theory