人教新课标必修五-Unit1-Great-Scientists[全单元课件].pptVIP

Unit 1 Great Scientists Who is he? What is his achievement? A great scientist Father of Hybrid Rice The man who puts an end to hunger Quiz 1.Which scientist discovered that objects in water are lifted up by a force that helps them float? 2. Who wrote a book explaining how animals and plants developed as the environment changed? 3. Who invented the first steam engine? 4. Who used peas to show how physical characteristics are passed from parents to their children? 5. Who discovered radium? Archimedes Ancient Greek (287-212BC) He was a mathematician(数学家). He found that if you put an object into water, the water pushes the object up. It rises and partly floats. The force of the water pushing it up is the same as the weight of the object. Charles Darwin Britain (1808-1882) The Origin of Species Thomas Newcomen He made a significant contribution to the Industrial Revolution with his invention of the Steam engine. 汤玛斯·纽科门（Thomas Newcomen，1664年2月24日－1729年8月5日）是一位英国工程师和发明家，出生在德文郡，曾经发明过纽科门蒸气引擎，后来被运用在矿区与油田，节省大量的人力。 6. Who invented the way of giving electricity to everybody in large cities? 7. Who was the painter that studied dead bodies to improve his painting of people? 8. Who invented a lamp to keep miners safe underground? 9. Who invented the earliest instrument to tell people where earthquakes happened? 10.Who put forward a theory about black holes? John Snow Defeats “King Cholera” Pre-reading: Make a prediction about what this text will be about according to the title. Extensive Reading 1.The main idea of the text Exercise Filling the blanks with useful words and expressions in the text John Snow was a very expert doctor in London. He thought about ordinary people_____________ cholera. There were two theories he became interested in. One is that cholera________ in the air, the other is that people __________ this disease into their bodies with their meals. John Snow_________ that the second theory was correct, an