【精品】高中英语(人教大纲)第三册：Unit9-Health-care(第一课时).doc

Unit 9　Health careⅠ.Brief Statements Based on the UnitHealth care,the topic of this unit,is connected with our daily life closely.The improvement of health care is not only an assurance of people’s health,but also a sign of the society’s development,so the students’ interest in it can easily be aroused.Thus,their integrating skills to use language can be well developed.By finishing the tasks of Warming up,Speaking,Writing and Grammar,the students not only practise expressing opinions,but also practise using the Subjunctive Mood to talk about things that are imaginary or unreal events and situations.By listening,the students learn something about the WHO and the outbreaking and controlling of the SARS.By reading one passage,the students learn that the government and some international organizations are making efforts to improve the weakest members’ health care situations in order to reduce poverty.By reading another passage,the students learn something about Fleming—the penicillin discoverer and the great contributions made by him to health care.At the same time,the students learn some useful words and expressions for health care.Ⅱ.Teaching Goals1.Talk about health care.2.Practise talking about society and values.3.Practise expressing opinions.4.Review the Subjunctive Mood(2).5.Write an article for a journal.Ⅲ.Background InformationSir Alexander FlemingSir Alexander Fleming was born at Lochfield near Darvel in Ayrshire,Scotland on August 6th,1881.He attended Louden Moor School,Darvel School,and Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London where he attended the Polytechnic.He spent four years in a shipping office before entering St.Mary’s Medical School,London University.He qualified with distinction in 1906 and began research at St.Mary’s under Sir Almroth Wright,a pioneer in vaccine therapy.He gained M.B.,B.S.,(London),with Gold Medal in 1908,and became a lecturer at St.Mary’s until 1914.He served throughout World War Ⅰ as a captain in the Army Medical Corps,being mentioned in dispatches,and in 1918 he returned to St.Mary’s.He was elected Professor of the School in 1928 and Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology,University of London in 1948.He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1943 and knighted in 1944.Sir Alexander wrote numerous papers on bacteriology,immunology and chemotherapy,including original descriptions of lysozyme and penicillion.They have been published in medical and scientific journals.Early in his medical life,Fleming became interested in the natural bacterial action of the blood and in antiseptics.He was able to continue his studies throughout his military career and on demobilization he settled to work on antibacterial substances which would not be toxic to animal tissues.In 1921,he discovered in tissues and secretions an important bacteriolytic substance which he named Lysozyme.About this time,he devised sensitivity titration methods and assays in human blood and other body fluids,which he subsequently used for the titration of penicillin.In 1928,while working on influenza virus,he observed that mould had developed accidently on a staphylococcus culture plate and that the mould had created a bacteria-free circle around itself.He was inspired to further experiment and he found that a mould culture prevented growth of staphylococci,even when diluted 800 times.He named the cative substance penicillin.Fleming,a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons(England),1909,and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians(London),1944,has gained many awards.They include Hunterian Professor (1919),Arris and Gale Lecturer(1929) and Honorary Gold Medal(1946) of the Royal College of Surgeons;Williams Julius Mickle Fellowship,University of London(1942);Charles Mickle Fellowship,University of Toronto(1944);John Scott Medal,City Guild of Philadelphia(1944);Cameron Prize,University of Edinburgh(1945);Moxon Medal,Royal College of Physicians(1945);Cutter Lecturer,Harvard University(1945);Albert Gold Medal,Royal Society of Arts(1946);Gold Medal,Royal Society of Medicine(1947);Medal for Merit,U.S.A.(1947);and the Grand Cross of Alphonse X the Wise,Spain(1948).He served as President of the Society for General Microbiology.He was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Science and Honorary Member of almost all the medical and scientific societies of the world.He was Rector of Edinburgh University during 1951-1954,Freeman of many boroughs and cities and Honorary Chief Doy-gei-tau of the Kiowa tribe.He was also awarded doctorate,honoris cause,degrees of almost thirty European and American Universities.In 1915,Fleming married Sarah Marion McElroy of Killala,Ireland,who died in 1949.Their son is a general medical practitioner.Fleming married again in 1953,his bride was Dr.Amalia Koutsouri-Voureka,a Greek colleague at St.Mary’s.In his younger days he was a keen member of the Territorial Army and he served from 1900 to 1914 as a private in the London Scottish Regiment。