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1、学海无涯 语言积累语言积累 交际用语交际用语 描述他人情况 Describing people What does she look like Why do you admire her What did she do to impress you most How would you describe her Why did she choose to What are her strengths weakness Can you give an example to show She is hardworking energetic active determine intelligent
2、 fair generous kind helpful mdest confident brave honest considerate unselfish devoted educated warm hearted 话题词句话题词句 高清课堂 高清课堂 Get to know some women of achievement in the world 学海无涯 Name Ambition Problems Sacrifices Elizabeth Fry To help improve prison conditions She was criticized for neglecting
3、her family and enjoying fame Less time was spent with her husband and family Song Chingling To work for civil rights democracy and peace Her relatives held political opinions completely different from hers After her husband died she lived alone Jody Williams To prevent the making and use of landmine
4、s It isn t easy to work with groups in different countries and persuade government to stop the making and use of landmines She has lost her own personal time because of the demands of the job Jane Goodall To work with animals in the wild She lived a hard life in the wild She gave up the comforts of
5、life to study the 学海无涯 chimps Joan of Arc To drive the English from France Women were not allowed to fight like a man She lost her life What do these great women have in common 1 Work hard at their chosen careers 2 Stick to their idea without any withdrawal 3 Overcome all sorts of difficulties 4 Giv
6、e up things like families or life to achieve their ambition 5 Make great contributions to the society 拓展阅读拓展阅读 Madame Curie Madame Curie was born Maria Sklodowski in Warsaw Poland in 1867 the youngest of five children When she was born Poland was controlled by Russia Her parents were teachers and sh
7、e learned at an early age the importance of education Her mother died when she was young and when her father was caught teaching Polish which had been made illegal under the Russian government Manya as she was called and her sisters had to get jobs After a couple of failed jobs Manya became a tutor
8、to a family in the countryside outside Warsaw She enjoyed her time there and was able to send her father money to help support him and also send some money to her sister Bronya in Paris who was studying medicine Bronya eventually married another medical student and they set up practice in Paris The
9、couple invited Manya to live with them and study at the Sorbonne a famous Parisian University In order to fit in better at the school Manya changed her name to the French Marie Marie studied physics and mathematics and quickly received her masters degrees in both subjects She remained in Paris after
10、 graduation and started research on magnetism For the research she wanted to do she needed more space than her small lab A friend introduced her to another young scientist Pierre Curie who had some extra room Not only did Marie move her equipment into his lab Marie and Pierre fell in love and marrie
11、d A friend of the Curies A Henri Becquerel had been playing with recently discovered properties of the element uranium He talked to Pierre and Marie about those properties and they became interested in them too Marie Curie set about investigating the effect which she named radio activity for her Doc
12、torate research Marie Curie checked many other elements to determine whether they too were radioactive She found one thorium and also came across a source of radiation in a mixture called pitch blend which was much more powerful than either thorium or uranium Working together it took Marie and Pierr
13、e four years to isolate the radioactive source in the pitch blend Marie named it radium For the discovery of radium Marie and Pierre won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 which they shared with their friend A Henri Becquerel Shortly Marie found that what she had discovered was not pure radium but she
14、 was able to isolate the element itself after quite a struggle For this work she was given the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911 During her work Marie discovered radiation could kill human cells She reasoned that if it 学海无涯 could kill healthy human cells it could kill diseased human cells and went a
15、bout isolating radium for use in killing tumors In 1906 Pierre Curie was offered the position of director of the Physics Laboratory at the Sorbonne Before he could take the position however he was run over by a carriage and killed After her husband died Marie was offered and took the position the fi
16、rst woman to become director of a research laboratory During the first World War Marie Curie went to work for the French building and designing X ray machines Knowing that moving soldiers to a hospital before they needed surgery was not always possible she designed the first mobile X ray machine and traveled with it along the front lines during the war On July 4 1934 Marie Curie died in Paris killed by her own experiments She died of radiation poisoning and may have been the first person to do s
