新课标人教版必修五Unit1_Reading

1、Unit 1 Great ScientistsScientists: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 telephoneWright Brothers the electric LampMadame Curie black holes in UniverseFranklin Theory of Gravit

2、ySteven Hawking the First PlaneElbert Einstein RadiumIsaac Newton the Theory of RelativityScientists & 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 c

3、hanged?ArchimedesCharles 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 p

4、ainter that studied dead bodies to improve his painting of people?Maries CurieThomas EdisonLeonardo 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 Dav

5、yZhang HengStephen HawkingJohn SnowWho helped to defeat the disease?Whats the name of the disease?CholeraJohn Snow is a well-known doctor in the 19th century in London and he defeated “King Cholera”.It is a kind of terrible disease caused by drinking dirty water and it caused a lot of deaths in the

6、old times and it was very difficult to defeat.Pre-readingFind supporting evidenceDraw a conclusionFind a problemMake up a questionThink of a methodCollect resultsAnalyse the resultsPara 1Para 2Para 3Para 4Para 5Para 6Match themFind supporting evidencePara 7Whats the main idea of the passage?v John S

7、now was a well-known doctor in London.v The cause of Cholera was polluted water.v The source of all drinking water should be examined.A. How John Snow find the cause of the disease and solved it .SkimmingSkimming Read the passage and number these events in the order that they happened. - John Snow b

8、egan to test the two theories. - An outbreak of cholera hit London in 1854 - John Snow marked the deaths on a map - He announced that the water carried the disease - John Snow investigated two streets where the outbreak was very severe - King Cholera was defeated - He found that most of the deaths w

9、ere near a water pump - He had the handle removed from the water pump21473856What is the problem?The cholera was the most _ disease of its day. Neither its _, nor its _ was _.What caused cholera?Details 1. Find a problemdeadlycausecureunderstoodWhich theory is correct? Cholera_ in the air without re

10、ason. A cloud of dangerous gas would _ around until it found its _.People _ it with their meals.2.make up a questionmultipliedfloatvictimsabsorbed3. think of a methodA map of Broad StreetWhat method did he use?Broad StreetMany deaths happened here.No death happened here.The water from the pump was t

11、o blame.Public house4. collect resultsanalyze the results: What happened to the pump water?The water was from the _ which had been _ by the _ from London.5. analyse the resultsriverpolluteddirty waterWhat extra evidence did he find? A woman and her daughter who lived far away but drank the water als

12、o died.7. draw a conclusion with certaintyThe polluted water carried the disease.6. find supporting evidenceCareful Careful ReadingReading Task1: What happened in 1854? How many people died in 10 days? Why is there no death at No. 20 and 21 Broad Street as well as at No. 8 and 9 Cambridge Street?Cho

13、lera outbreak hit London.500These families had not drunk the water from the Broad Street pump.1 Why couldnt the cholera be under control at first?2 Which theory did John Snow believe in?Neither its cause, not its cure was understood.People absorbed cholera into their bodies with their meals.Task 2:

14、Read and answer3 John Snow finally proved the theory he believed by _. A. gathering information with the help of a map B. looking into the source of the water for Broad Street and Cambridge Street C. separating those who suffered cholera from those who didnt D. both A and B 4 What s the extra eviden

15、ce? 5 To prevent the cholera from spreading again, what did John Snow do?He suggested that the source of all water supplies be examined and instructed the water companies not to expose people to the polluted water anymore.A woman and her daughter who lived far away but drank the water also died.1. D

16、o you think John Snow would have solved this problem without the map? No. The map helped John Snow organize his ideas. He was able to identify those households that had had many deaths and check their water-drinking habits. He identified those houses that had had no deaths and surveyed their drinking habits. The evidence clearly pointed to the polluted water being