新课标人教版必修五Unit1_Reading.ppt

Scientists: What’s the main idea of the passage? John Snow was a well-known doctor in London. The cause of Cholera was polluted water. The source of all drinking water should be examined. How John Snow find the cause of the disease and solved it . Unit 1 Great Scientists Warming Up There are some great scientific achievements that have changed the world. Can you name some of them? Alexander Bell electricity Thomas Edison the First telephone Wright Brothers the electric Lamp Madame Curie black holes in Universe Franklin Theory of Gravity Steven Hawking the First Plane Elbert Einstein Radium Isaac Newton the Theory of Relativity Scientists Contributions: Do you know? Who discovered that objects in water are lifted up by a force that helps them float? Who wrote a book explaining how animals and plants developed as the environment changed? Archimedes Charles Darwin Who invented the first steam engine? Thomas Newcomen Who used peas to show how physical characteristics are passed from parents to their children? Gregor Mendel Who discovered radium? Who invented the way of giving electricity to everybody in large cities? Who was the painter that studied dead bodies to improve his painting of people? Maries Curie Thomas Edison Leonardo da Vinci Who invented a lamp to keep miner safe underground? Who invented the earliest instrument to tell people where earthquakes happened? Who put forward a theory about black holes? Sir Humphrey Davy Zhang Heng Stephen Hawking John Snow Who helped to defeat the disease? Whats the name of the disease? Cholera John Snow is a well-known doctor in the 19th century in London and he defeated “King Cholera”. Do you know what kind of disease is cholera? It is a kind of terrible disease caused by drinking dirty water and it caused a lot of deaths in the old times and it was very difficult t