Welcome to the unit & Reading comprehension 高 二 英 语 Module 7 Unit 2 Reading Welcome to the unit & Reading comprehension

Different jobs: A _______ is a person who prepares and sells medicine. A _______ is a person who takes care of people’s teeth. An __________ is a person who examines people’s eyes to see if they need to wear glasses. chemist dentist eye doctor

What is the girl doing? She is having her eyesight examined. The eye doctor tests her eyes to see if she needs glasses.

Different jobs: physician A _________ is a person who has general skill to treat physical problems. A ________ is a person who performs medical operations. surgeon

Diseases: A common disease for middle-aged and older people. A blood vessel to the brain is blocked so patients feel a sudden loss of brain function. stroke 中风

Diseases: A disease where sugar levels in the blood are too high. Patients are unable to produce insulin (胰岛素). 糖尿病 colon cancer pneumonia diabetes 结肠癌 肺炎

Other items: The room where an operation is done is called _________________. ____________ is the use of needles to treat people’s health problems. an operating theatre Acupuncture

The person is receiving an acupuncture treatment on an ear The person is receiving an acupuncture treatment on an ear. Acupuncture has its origin in China beginning before 1000 BC. Traditional acupuncture always requires doctors to insert such needles into various body areas.

What can acupuncture do? Acupuncture can __________________. relieve body pains help lose weight help quit smoking …

Questions to answer: 1. Have you ever seen a doctor? 2. Have you ever received medical treatments? 3. Would you like to do any of the jobs in the picture? Why or why not?

4. What do people do when they feel ill? They may take medicines. 5. What will happen if they don’t take the right or the wrong medicine? They may not get better or even get worse.

6. Do you know what they are? aspirin penicillin

Do you know this man with glasses? Alexander Fleming

7. What illness can the two medicines cure? 8. What else do you know about these two medicines?

In 1900. The Nobel Prize. 9. When was one of the medicines first sold as a tablet? 10. What did Fleming, Florey and Chain share? In 1900. The Nobel Prize.

Answer the question in C1 on page 20. 1. About 2500 years ago. 2. In 1987. 3. It can also help reduce the risk of heart attacks by thinning blood, prevent a stroke, reduce the risk of colon cancer, increase the length of people’s lives and help with diabetes.

4. In the mould that killed bacteria. 5. It can be used to treat bacterial illnesses and other illnesses including pneumonia. 6. Because Fleming discovered penicillin and the others turned it into the great drug which save millions of lives.

C2 on page 20 Development of Aspirin: In 1900: In 1950: sold in shops as a tablet as the best-selling painkiller recorded in the Guinness Book In 1971: proved to be a blood-thinning medicine used to prevent a stroke used to reduce blood sugar levels

Development of Penicillin: World War II: In 1945: discovered by Alexander Fleming found new chemical techniques to purify it all the scientists shared the Nobel Prize

Effects of aspirin Reduce f_____ fever Help stop body p_____ Reduce the r_____ of heart attacks Prevent a s_____ Reduce the risk of colon c_____ Increase the l_____ of people’s lives Help with d______ fever pains risk stroke cancer length diabetes

Effects of penicillin Help in treating wounds and i________ infections Treat other illnesses including p__________ infections pneumonia

Reading strategy How can we understand medical terms? Words coming from the same stem Words that are compound words Words with irregular plural forms Words composed of chemical names

Words coming from the same stem: medicine, medical, medicinal; pure, purify chemical, chemist; bacterium, bacterial

Words that are compound words painkiller blood-thinning heart attack Words with irregular plural forms: bacteria bacterium acetyl + salicylic Words composed of chemical names

c e g i a h f d b physician (line 9) _________ bark (line 10) _________ painkiller (line 19) _________ thinning (line 24) _________ contemporary (line 37) _________ transparent (line 39) _________ purify (line 48) _________ quantities (line 49) _________ widespread (line 50) _________ c e g i a h f d b

Aspirin Aspirin has saved many people’s lives by reducing fever and helping stop p____. Lawrence Craven introduced the idea that aspirin could reduce the r____ of heart attacks by thinning blood. In 1971, Smith and Willis p_____ that aspirin was a blood-thinning medicine and a study showed that a chemical in aspirin could prevent a s____. In 2003, a Chinese doctor found that this chemical could reduce blood s____ levels and help people with diabetes. pain risk proved stroke sugar

Penicillin Penicillin, discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, is c_________ to be one of the most important medicines in contemporary s_____. Howard Florey and Ernst Chain managed to use new chemical t_________ o purify it to be a medicine. Due to its widespread use, many lives were saved during World War II. Penicillin is also used to treat other illnesses i______ pneumonia. In 1945, Fleming, Florey and Chain s_____ the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work. considered society techniques including shared

Summarize (E,P21) 1. invented 2. ASA 3. tablet 4. recommended 5. published 6. discovered 7. available 8. contemporary

Homework Workbook: A1-B2