2014 人教版英语必修4 Unit1 Warming up.pptVIP

Unit 1 Women of achievement by Miss Fang 2014.4.26 ;; ; She was an inventor and a scientist from Poland. ;Empress Wu Zetian (624 - 705) ;She is a leading television anchor in China. She is also the co-founder of Sun Media Investment Holdings, Ltd., one of China’s most prominent private-media groups. ?;Who are they?; A girl from the countryside who dressed as a man and went to fight for the French and to drive the English out of France. She was caught and put to death by the English. ; She was born in a small village in France. She lived at the time when there was a war between England and France called “The Hundred Years War”. She showed the French army how to win battles and inspired them with the confidence;enough to defeat the English and send them back to England for good. At that time it was considered wrong for women to fight in the army. Joan argued that God had spoken to her and sent her to help the army and encouraged her to fight in men’s clothes.; Elizabeth Fry was a Quaker. She helped improve prison condition and gave prisoners work and education. Her work helped the Quakers get the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947. ; She was born in a Quaker family on May 21, 1780. In 1812 she first visited Newgate Prison in London and was very shocked at the conditions there. From then on she began to work to improve prison conditions in Britain. In 1816, she began her prison school. ;In 1818, she and 11 other Quakers talked to the leaders of Britain about life in Prison. By the 1820s she and her work had become well known.;Song Qingling (1893-1981), China; A doctor who became a specialist in women’s illnesses. She devoted all her life to medical work for Chinese women and children. Her work encouraged many other women to become doctors.;