E 10 Unit 3 Reading

Reading for general ideas and specific information 2.. - Improve background knowledge about famous scientists especially about Marie Curie.. Ss may lack of information about Marie Curie.

Unit 3 : PEOPLE’S BACKGROUNDS

READING

1 Aim Reading for general ideas and specific information

2 Objectives By the end of the lesson, Ss will be ale to :

- Read better through Matching and True or False exercises.

- Improve background knowledge about famous scientists especially about Marie Curie.

3 Materials

Textbook, whiteboard markers,…

Pictures of some famous scientists,…

4 Anticipated problems

Ss may lack of information about Marie Curie.

Can you name these famous persons?

• Isaac Newton

Charlie Chapin

Who is he ?

William Shakespeare

Match the people with their job :

2 Pham Van Dong b Singer

3 Isaac Newton c Scientist

5 Charles Chaplin e Playwright / writer

Marie Curie ( 1867 – 1934 )

VOCABULARY

+ brilliant (adj) / 'briljənt/

+ mature (adj) /mə'tjuə/

+ harbour the dream of :

+ tutor (n,v) /'tju:tə/ :

+ flying colours :

+ PhD :

+ tragic death :

+ atomic weight /ə'tɔmik 'weit/

clever , intelligent (thông minh)

fully-grown in character and power

(trưởng thành)

keep in mind the dream of doing something (nuôi dưỡng ước mơ)

bằng xuất sắc Doctor of Philosophy ( Tiến sỹ triết học )

die painfully ( cái chết bi thảm)

Trọng lượng nguyên tử

Gia sư

• Ex: She was a brilliant student

She is a private tutor

She is tutoring

Match the word or phrases in A with their meaning in B

B Keep in the mind

C Very well With a very high mark / grade

D Make less severe

E Find out exactly by making calculations.

Decide whether the statement are True (T) or False (F)

tutor

the Sorbonne

T F

T F T

Her dream was to become a scientist

She married Pierre Curie in 1895

Complete the table below

Answer the questions

1 Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on November 7 th ,1867

2 She was a brilliant and mature student

3 She worked as a private tutor to save money for a study tour abroad

4 She was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the atomic weight of radium

5 No , it wasn’t Her real joy was “ easing human

suffering ”

RADIUM & POLONIUM

SORBONNE UNIVERSITY

MARIE CURIE & PIERRE CURIE

Homework

1 Write a short paragraph about Marie Curie.

2 Prepare the next part : Speaking