《The Admirable》Lesson1 A Medical Pioneer PPT

《The Admirable》Lesson1 A Medical Pioneer PPT

Activity 1

What do you know about malaria?

Read the facts about malaria. Tick the ones you find most striking or interesting. 

(     ) 1. Malaria is a mosquito-borne and infectious disease.

(     ) 2. The word “malaria” comes from the Latin word for “bad air”.

(     ) 3. People suffer from high fever, serious vomiting and terrible headaches when they have the disease.

(     ) 4. Malaria kills over 1,000,000 people a year—more people than any disease apart from AIDS.

(     ) 5. The drug with artemisinin has proved to be the most effective cure.

(     ) 6. There is currently no effective vaccine against malaria.

Activity 2

Pair Work: What do you know about Tu Youyou?

Activity 3

What do you want to know about Tu Youyou?

If you are going to interview Tu Youyou, what questions do you want to ask her?

Activity 4

Read the text and find out. 

1. How many of your questions are answered in the text?

2. What else do you want to know?

Activity 5

Read, complete and introduce Tu Youyou to your partner.

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Activity 11

Join the pairs of sentences using relative pronouns.

1. We climbed to the top of the mountain. We had a beautiful view from there.

We climbed to the top of the mountain, from where we had a beautiful view.

2. David is my friend. I often play tennis with him.

David is my friend with whom I often play tennis.

3. He has 20 books. Only two of them are interesting.

He has 20 books of which only two of them are interesting.

4. This is quite an interesting job. I really want to apply for it.

This is quite an interesting job for which I really want to apply.

Activity 12

Express Yourself.

Suppose your school wants to choose three most admirable people as role models. You have one minute to persuade the committee to include Tu Youyou. Use at least three relative clauses to present your recommendation.

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