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1、Unit 2 Nobel Prize Winners contributed & programmed by：许 峰，吴之昕，刘晓妍，于辉华，刘丹， 余爱霞，李 涛，夏振邦,In this unit, students will: 1. Learn about Nobel Prizes; 2. Listen to and then talk about Nobel Prize Winners; 3. Discuss what leads to success academically; 4. Read about the secrets of Einsteins and Zewails suc
2、cess. 5. write about a Nobel Prize Winner,TEACHING OBJECTIVES,Before Reading,Warm-up questions,Alfred Nobel,Nobel Prizes,The Nobel Prize Awarders,The Medals,Award Ceremony,Albert Einstein,Listening,Euclid,1. How much do you know about Alfred Nobel and Nobel Prizes? 2. Could you name some Nobel Prize
3、 winners and their stories? 3. What do you think is important for one to win the Nobel Prize?,WARM-UP QUESTIONS,Before Reading,ALFRED NOBLE,A Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite In his will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Pri
4、zes to reward other innovators “contributing most materially to the benefit of mankind.”,(1833.10.21- 1896.12.10),Alfred Bernhard Nobel,Before Reading,NOBLE PRIZES,The most prestigious awards in each of these fields granted to individuals or institutions for outstanding contributions in the fields o
5、f: physics chemistry physiology or medicine literature international peace economic sciences, created in 1968 to commemorate the banks 300th anniversary. The first Nobel prizes were awarded on December 10, 1901, the fifth anniversary of Nobels death.,Before Reading,NOBLE PRIZES,In addition to a cash
6、 award, each prizewinner also receives: a gold medal a diploma bearing the winners name and field of achievement. Prizewinners are known as Nobel laureates.,Before Reading,Physics and Chemistry : The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Physiology or Medicine: Karolinska Institute,THE NOBLE PRIZE AWARD
7、ERS,Literature: the Swedish Academy Peace: a Committee of five persons to be elected by the Norwegian Parliament Economics: In 1968, the Sveriges Riksbank established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Memory of Alfred Nobel.,Before Reading,THE MEDALS,The front side of four medals (Physics, Chemistry, P
8、hysiology or Medicine, and Literature) is the same. 1. a portrait of Alfred Nobel 2. the years of his birth and death in Latin. Alfred Nobels face on the Peace medal and on the medal for the Economics Prize has different designs.,Front Side,Before Reading,THE MEDALS,The Medals for Science,The medal
9、represents Nature in the form of a goddess resembling Isis, emerging from the clouds and holding in her arms a cornucopia. The veil which covers her cold and austere face is held up by the Genius of Science.,Before Reading,THE MEDALS,The Medals for Medicine,The medal represents the Genius of Medicin
10、e holding an open book in her lap, collecting the water pouring out from a rock in order to quench a sick girls thirst.,Before Reading,THE MEDALS,The Medals for Literature,The medal of the Swedish Academy represents a young man sitting under a laurel tree who, enchanted, listens to and writes down t
11、he song of the Muse.,Before Reading,THE MEDALS,The Back represents a group of three men forming a fraternal bond.,The Front shows Alfred Nobel in a pose slightly different from that of the other medals,Before Reading,AWARD CEREMONOY,Time: December 10, the anniversary of Nobels death Place: in Stockh
12、olm, Sweden,The king of Sweden presents the awards in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and economic sciences.,Before Reading,In Oslo, Norway, the peace prize ceremony takes place at the University of Oslo in the presence of the King of Norway. After the ceremonies, Nobel Prize
13、 winners give a lecture on a subject connected with their prize-winning work.,AWARD CEREMONOY,Before Reading,ALBERT EINSTEIN,Born: 14 March 1879 Birthplace: Ulm, Germany Died: 18 April 1955 (heart failure) Best Known As: Creator of the theory of relativity Honor: Won the Nobel Prize in 1921 not for
14、relativity but for his 1905 work on the photoelectric effect,(1879.3.141955.4.18),Before Reading,ALBERT EINSTEIN,How did Einstein work out his famous formula?,E=mc2,E equals M C squared,“C” stands for “ ”.,career,Before Reading,ALBERT EINSTEIN,Einstein: A king of lothario,Vocabulary Lothario 勾引女人的男人
15、 a man who seduces women grapple 努力 to struggle, in or as if in wrestling a batch of 一批；一组；大量 limelight a focus of public attention. 众人注目的中心 archive 档案,Watch the video clip and judge whether the following statements are true or false.,Before Reading,ALBERT EINSTEIN,1. The hundreds of letters written
16、 by Einstein to his second wife and step-daughter were released on his own instruction 20 years after his death. ( ) 2. Albert Einstein had affairs with a dozen mistresses in his two married lives. ( ) 3. Einstein himself wanted all his affairs exposed to the public gaze. ( ) 4. His secretary first kept a lot of letters hidden from public and wanted to be published only letters of scientific content. ( ) 5. It is apparent that more and more letters written by Einstein will come to light. ( ),
