综合英语教程第五册_课后答案_备课教案Unit-04-Force_of_Nature.ppt

Contents page Learning Objectives Rhetorical skill: features of English descriptive narration Key language grammar points Writing strategies: metaphorical language Theme: icon and real person Pre-R: picture activation Who do you admire most? Why? Pre-R: Q1 Great scientists like Edison, Einstein, etc. are big icons in our mind’s eye. We seem to know more about their miraculous accomplishments than the strenuous efforts they took to achieve them. Tell what you know about some great scientists of the 19th and 20th centuries, both their life and their work. Pre-R: Q2 G-R: text introduction-1 Great lives in science are all about passion and curiosity. Marie Curie, the Polish-born discoverer of radium, had both in grand measure. But down the road she helped open-up nuclear energy, which meant atomic bombs, and put Curie center stage during one of the great turning points in scientific history. Barbara Goldsmith has uniquely captured the woman and her science. G-R: text introduction-2 Using original research (diaries, letters, and family interviews) to peel away the layers of myth and reveal the woman behind the icon, the acclaimed author and historian Barbara Goldsmith offers a dazzling portrait of Curie, her amazing discoveries, and the price she paid for fame. G-R: culture notes-Marie Curie Marie Curie (Paragraph 1) (1867-1934), Polish-born French chemist who, with her husband Pierre Curie, was an early investigator of radioactivity. The Curies shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel for fundamental research on radioactivity. Marie Curie went on to study the chemistry and medical applications of radium. She was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in chemistry in recognition of her work in discovering radium and polonium and in isolating radium. G-R: culture notes- Sorbonne Sorbonne (Paragraph 5) the name of one of the buildings of the University of Paris, popularly used to designate the entire university.