蓝皮社会与文化B1_U9TC

1、page 1 of 5lesson plan of unit 9 text c period (45mins) procedures contents time (min) period 1lead in homework checking 5language & knowledge building prereading preparations 10 reading & language focus 15 drills & exercises 10 q & a 5 period 2 knowledge & competency building vi

2、deo or films 5 discussion 5 preparation 20 classroom activities extension reading & discussion 10 q & a 5 remarks: the above-mentioned class process is subject to the progress of each individual class. if any variation is necessary, this form will be altered accordingly for your preference.

3、page 2 of 5teaching objectives: students will be able to practice reading skills ：preview reading through title and prereading questions fact finding and reading analysis using context clues to understand and use vocabulary using an outline to organize information information summary fast reading co

4、ntent ：prereading preparation1. if you were ill, which kind of medicine would you like to choose, chinese herbal medicine or western medicine? why? language focus content words acupuncture n. 针灸i had acupuncture in my lower back. 我在后腰上做了针灸。diagnosis n 诊断 diagnoses (pl.) i need to have a second test

5、to confirm the diagnosis. 我需要复查来确诊。ailment n. 小病the pharmacist can assist you with the treatment of common ailments. 药剂师能帮助你治疗平常小病。pharmacopoeia,f rm?k?pi? n. 药典well-being n. 福祉，幸福感，康乐singing can create a sense of well-being. page 3 of 5唱歌能产生一种幸福感。expressions clinical strategy 临床策略siberian ginseng 西

6、洋参hormone disturbances 荷尔蒙失调breathing disorders 呼吸障碍state board 国家管理局place great emphasis on 着重强调low/high dose 小/大剂量by and large 大体上，总的来说sentences also see notes 1. chinese herbal medicine uses a variety of herbs to restore balance of energy to the body. 2. by and large, chinese traditional medicine

7、 as a whole places great emphasis on lifestyle management in order to prevent disease before it occurs. 3. chinese medicine recognizes that health is more than just the absence of disease. communicative tasks questions can be based on details in the text. ?what is chinese herbal medicine based on? ?

8、what does it aim to do? ?can you name some kinds of herbs which can prevent and treat hormone disturbances, infections, breathing disorders and other diseases? what are they? ?why many herbs are no longer produced or used as they were in the past? ?do you think chinese herbs are very safe? why? ?do

9、you think chinese medicine is reliable? why? page 4 of 5discussion topics 1. do you think the traditional chinese medicine will have a bright future or will be replaced even disappear with modernization? related knowledge chinese herbal medicine has been widely used to prevent, diagnose and treat di

10、seases. it largely consists of natural medicines and produced ones, namely medicines made from herbal, animal, mineral, some chemical substance and biological substance. the invention and application of chinese medicine has a history of thousand of years. yet the word chinese medicine appeared only

11、after western medicine was introduced into china, which aimed to make a difference between the two. history of chinese herbal medicine chinese history once told a fiction of a person named shen nong who tasted many herbs at the same time and was then poisoned. it told us what difficult times that an

12、cient chinese people had when discovering the medicines. dating back to the period around 22 century b.c. to 256 b.c (in which china was in xia, shang and zhou dynasty), there appeared alcohol medicine and soup medicine. a book, the book of songs (or shi jing) in the zhou dynasty (11 century b.c. to

13、 771 b.c.), wrote something about medicine. this is the earliest existing book bearing records of ancient chinese medicine. another book, nei jing, which is the earliest existing book on chinese medicine theory, proposed the theories like cooling the patient if one had high temperature and vice vers

14、a, adding the five flavors into the medicine and one would feel bitter inside and have diarrhea. these formed the basis of chinese medicine theory. the earliest existing book on chinese herbal medicine, shen nong ben cao jing (ben means root and cao means shoot), was written in the qin and han dynas

15、ty (221 b.c.-220a.d.) based on the work of medical experts who collected lots of materials before the qin dynasty. the book recorded 365 types of medicine, some of which is still used in contemporary clinics. this book set up a beginning of the establishment of eastern medicine. page 5 of 5homework:

16、 review text c exercise on p128 part iii-translation in the tang dynasty (618 a.d.-907 a.d.), economy prospered, which boosted the eastern medicine. the tang government wrote the book, tang ben cao, which is the earliest existing book in the world on pharmacopeia. this book included 850 types of med

17、ical herbs and their pictures, which further improved the scale of eastern medicine. in the ming dynasty (1368 a.d.- 1644 a.d.), an expert of herbal medicine li shizhen spent 27 years accomplishing the book, ben cao gang mu. the book recorded 1,892 types of herbal medicine, making it the greatest bo

18、ok in chinese history, which included the most type of herbal medicines. after the founding of new china in 1949, plenty of researches have been done in various fields such as botany, identification science, chemistry, pharmacology and clinical medicine. these researches provide scientific basis to identify the source and authenticity of herbal medicines as well as their function scheme. later, a nationwide survey was done on the source of the medicine, which helped produced the book, zhong yao zhi in 1961. in 1977, the book, herbal medicin