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Unit 17 Great Women Speaking

Unit 17 Great Women Speaking. Lead-in. Wu Yi She played an important part in leading people to fight against SARS. Queen Diana She always helped the people who have AIDS. The Chinese Women ’ s Volleyball team.

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Unit 17 Great Women Speaking

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  1. Unit 17Great Women Speaking

  2. Lead-in Wu Yi She played an important part in leading people to fight against SARS.

  3. Queen Diana She always helped the people who have AIDS.

  4. The Chinese Women’s Volleyball team

  5. Anita Mei is a well-known pop star in Asia. Besides her entertainment(娱乐）activities, she often held concerts to collect money for the charity foundations (慈善机构）.

  6. Secretary of the United States Condoleezza Rice

  7. Thatcher, Margaret Hilda 撒切尔夫人 President of HaierYang Mianmian

  8. Zhang Haidi

  9. Warming up Song Qingling 宋庆龄(1893-1981)

  10. Song Qingling is a famous Chinese woman revolutionist. She was born in 1893. She married Dr Sun Zhongshan in 1915. She was the vice-president of the People’s Republic for many years. She busied herself with various welfare

  11. activities (福利事业), ranging from heading the Women’s Federation to a number of committees involving children.

  12. Madame Curie(1867-1934)

  13. Madame Curie is the greatest woman scientist. She played an important role in the development of modern physics. Her discovery of radium opened the treasure-house of atomic energy. In 1903 Madame Curie and her husband Pierre Curie shared the Nobel Prize for

  14. physics. After her husband’s death Curie became the first woman professor in France. In 1911 she was awarded a second Nobel Prize. This is for her discovery of radium and polonium. Later she worked on the application of radioactivity to medicine.

  15. Pearl S. Buck(1892-1973)

  16. Pearl S. Buck is a famous American woman writer. She was born in the USA but grew up in Zhejiang Province after her parents moved to China in 1895. She first learnt Chinese and was in America and then returned to China. In 1931

  17. she wrote her best-known novel, The Good Earth. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.

  18. Mother Teresa(1910-1997)

  19. She was a world-famous Catholic nun. From the age of 18 she worked in India to help the poor. For more than 30 years she took care of people who were often mentally or physically disabled. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in

  20. 1979. In 2003, she was honoured with the name of Blessed Teresa.

  21. Homework Describe a person, using the following words.

  22. Negative Positive strong smart honest friendly warm kind cheerful popular generous hard-working helpful serious loyal quiet pretty weak stupid lazy mean dishonest tense cold unkind unfriendly miserable dull

  23. Useful expressions • She sees to me to be the kind of woman who … • The impression she makes on me is … • I think she is the kind of person who …

  24. She could be … • She might … • People like her … • She looks as if … • You can see that … • She doesn’t seem …

  25. Homework 1. Describe a person whom you are familiar with. 2. Remember the useful expressions on P30. 3. Recite new words and expressions of this unit.

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