1. Module 4 Great Scientists
NSE 4 Module 4
Period Two

2. 阿基米德 (Archimedes, 287～212BC)
Ancient Greek Physicist, mathematician
The law of Archimedes
Father of Integral Calculus(微积分)
Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I will move the world.

3. 居里夫人 (Marie Curie, )
Polish scientist
Discovered Radium (镭) and Polonium(钋)
Won Nobel Prize twice
Science is beyond nationalities, classes and races.

4. 牛顿 (Newton , )
English scientist
The law of gravity
The laws of motion
If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

5. 爱因斯坦 (Albert Einstein, 1879—1955) German-born American physicist
Creator of theories of relativity
Won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921
The Secret of Success: A=X+Y+Z X stands for hard work, Y for good methods, and Z means stop talking and get down to work.

6. Qian Xuesen Zhang Heng Father of hybrid rice Yuan Longping
Father of China’s aerospace
King of rockets
Father of hybrid rice
Yuan Longping

7. The Student Who Asked Questions

8. Which country is the world’s largest rice producer ?
What nickname was he given ?
3. According to Yuan Longping , what
was the key to feeding people ?
4. What is the only way to do it ?
5. What was the breakthrough in 1970 ?
6. What did his discoveries result in ?
7. Why were the rice fields converted to
growing vegetables and other cash
crops ?
8. What’s the feature of the new hybrid
rice ?

9. Fill in the blanks with proper words in the text:
Yuan Longping , born and _________ in China, was interested in plants when young. Because he liked asking questions, he was given the ________ “the student who asks questions”. He studied __________ in college and later he began ___________ in crop ________.
brought up
nickname
agriculture
experiments
breeding

10. In order to get a ______ yield of rice, he experimented with different types of rice. In 1970 a _________ sterile male rice plant was ________. As a result of Yuan Longping’s discoveries Chinese rice production rose ___47.5 percent in the 1990’s.
higher
naturally
discovered by

11. And 50 thousand square kilometers of fields were _________ to growing vegetables and other __________. Also Yuan Longping’s rice was _________to other countries. He is a leading ______ in the rice-growing world and has helped China to be the largest rice _________.
converted
cash crops
exported
figure
producer

12. Reading &Writing
Speaking

13. Stephen Hawking

14. to discover the cause of an illness or a problem
Reading &Writing–2. Vocabulary(3ms) Match the words in the box with the definitions.
a person who has been attacked, injured or killed as a result of a crime, an accident, etc.
to discover the cause of an illness or a problem
a book that sells in very large numbers
an illness
the study of the origin and development of the universe
the act of creating
the state of being disabled
victim
diagnose
best-seller
disease
cosmology
creation
disability

15. Answers: 2-------3------1 Reading &Writing–3. Numbering(5ms)
Read the passage about Stephen Hawking and number the paragraphs in the correct order.
Answers:

16. Do you know how to write a biography(传记) of a famous person?
Reading &Writing–5. Discussion (4ms)
Discuss with your group members .
Do you know how to write a biography(传记) of a famous person?
Para. 1: the general evaluation (评价 ) of the
person
Para. 2: his or her childhood, education,
earlier life
Para. 3: his or her research, or important
position in a certain field.

17. Reading &Writing–6. Writing (15ms)
Write three short paragraph about Albert
Einstein using the notes in Activity 4.
You may begin like this:
Albert Einstein was probably the most
brilliant scientists of the twentieth century…

18. Reading &Writing – 7. Peer checking and rewriting (10ms)
Read your writing to your partner. Check and rewrite your writing according to the following. Then share it with the whole class.

19. Homework
Go to the library or surf the Internet to collect more information about the life of a famous scientist. Then complete a poster introducing him/ her to your classmates. Play attention to the questions like these:
When and where was he born?
Why was he famous?
Where did he live and work?
When did he discover/invent---?
作业项目一定要。可让学生单独做的作业，也可以是一个project，几个人一起做的，只要设计就行。
可多往探究性题目想。不要细到课本上的练习。