Unit 3. People's background

FIND THE WORLD’S FAMOUS SCIENTISTS’ NAMES
GALILEO GALILEI
ALBERT EINSTEIN
ISAAC NEWTON
LOUIS PASTEUR
MENDEL
THOMAS EDISON
PYTHAGORAS
MARIE CURIE
GALILEO GALILEI
ALBERT EINSTEIN
ISAAC NEWTON
LOUIS PASTEUR
MENDEL
THOMAS EDISON
PYTHAGO
RAS
MARIE CURIE
• Husband: Pierre Curie
• Two daughters: Irene Joliot Curie and Eve Curie
• Marie Curie: 1867 - 1934
• Homeland: Warsaw, the Kingdom of Poland
• 2 Nobel Prizes: One in Physics and one in Chemistry
(67 years old)
UNIT 3:
PEOPLE’S BACKGROUND
A. READING
MARIE CURIE
- background (n)
lai lịch, tiểu sử
- Husband: Pierre Curie
- Two daughters: Irene Joliot Curie and Eve Curie
- Marie Curie: 1867 - 1934
- Homeland: Warsaw, the Kingdom of Poland
- Two Nobel Prizes: One in Physics
and one in Chemistry
(67 years old)
- brilliant (a)
thông minh, sáng dạ
= intelligent, smart, clever
- mature (a)
trưởng thành
- harbour (v)
nuôi dưỡng ước mơ, hoài bão
- private tutor (n)
gia sư
- with flying colours (a)
có số điểm xuất sắc
- PhD
Tiến Sĩ
- degree (n)
bằng cấp
(Doctor of Philosophy)
- atomic weight (n)
nguyên tử khối
H = 1
O =
Na =
Ca =
16
23
40
- radium (n)
nguyên tố phóng xạ
- determine (v)
xác định
226
Radium
- interrupt (v)
làm gián đoạn
- award (v)
trao tặng, thưởng
- obtain (v)
đạt được, có được
# possible (adj)
có thể
* impossible (adj)
không thể
- humanitarian (adj)
nhân đạo
- ease (v)
làm dịu, làm giảm
* harbour (v)
ấp ủ ước mơ, hoài bão
* mature (a)
trưởng thành
* brilliant (a)
thông minh, sáng dạ
= intelligent, smart, clever
NEW WORDS
* background (n)
lai lịch, tiểu sử
* private tutor (n)
gia sư
* with flying colours (a)
với số điểm rất cao
* degree (n)
bằng cấp
PhD
(Doctor of Philosophy)
Tiến Sĩ
* atomic weight (n)
nguyên tử khối
* radium (n)
nguyên tố phóng xạ
* determine (v)
xác định
* award (v)
trao tặng, thưởng
* humanitarian (adj)
nhân đạo
* atomic weight (n)
nguyên tử khối
* obtain (v)
đạt đươc, có được
* ease (v)
làm dịu, làm giảm
* possible (adj)
# impossible (adj)
có thể
không thể
* interrupt (v)
làm gián đoạn
Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on November 7th, 1867. She received general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father.
As a brilliant and mature student, Marie harboured the dream of scientific career, which was impossible for a woman at that time. To save money for a study tour abroad, she had to work as a private tutor, and her studies were interrupted.
Finally, in 1891, Marie, with very little money to live on , went to Paris to realise her dream at the Sorbonne. In spite of her difficult living conditions, she worked extremely hard. She earned a degree in Physics with flying colours, and went on to take another degree in Mathematics.
Read the passage and then do the tasks that follow.
She met Pierre Curie in the school of Physics in 1894 and a year later they got married. From then on, they work together on their research.
In 1903, Marie became the first woman to receive a PhD from the Sorbonne. After the tragic death of Pierre Curie in 1906, she took up the position which her husband had obtained at the Sorbonne. Thus she was the first woman in France to be at a university professor. Soon after, she was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the atomic weight of radium. But her real joy was “easing human suffering”. The founding of the Radium Institute in 1914 made her humanitarian wish come true.
Task 1: Match the English words with their Vietnamese meanings.
harbour
không thể
trưởng thành
mature
interrupt
determine
humanitarian
làm gián đoạn
nuôi dưỡng, ấp ủ
impossible
brilliant
thông minh, sáng dạ
xác định
nhân đạo
bằng cấp
degree
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Task 2: Choose the correct answer for each sentence below.
Marie Curie
Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
Charles Darwin
Mendel
Louis Pasteur
Galileo Galilei
Pythagoras
Isaac Newton
1. She received some scientific training ____________.
A. in local schools
B. from her father
C. both in local schools and from her father.
2. She had to work as__________to save money for a study tour abroad.
A. a student
B. a scientist
C. a private tutor
3. It is impossible for a woman to be _________at that time.
A. a student
B. a scientist
C. a private tutor
4. Marie went to Paris with_________to live on.
A. very little money
B. very much money
C. no money
5. She earned two degrees at the Sorbonne, one in ________and one in________.
Maths/ Chemistry
Physics/ Chemistry
C. Physics/ Maths
6. They got married only a year after they met_______.
in 1894
in 1895
in 1906
7. Marie’s real joy was_________.
a Nobel Prize in Chemistry
easing human suffering
being a university professor
Task 3: Find out what happened in the years below.
Task 3: Find out what happened in the years below.
1867
She went to Paris.
She met Pierre Curie in the School of Physics.
1895
1906
She became the first woman to receive a PhD from the Sorbonne.
The founding of the Radium Institute made her humanitarian wish come true.
ISAAC NEWTON
WHOSE INVENTION?
GRAVITY
MENDEL
MARIE CURIE
LOUIS PASTEUR
ALBERT EINSTEIN
GALILEO GALILEI
PYTHAGORAS
ISAAC NEWTON
THOMAS EDISON
6
1
7
2
5
4
8
3
B
C
D
E
F
H
G
A
ISAAC NEWTON
1.
D
2.
H
MARIE CURIE
3.
E
THOMAS EDISON
4.
G
GALILEO GALILEI
5.
A
LOUIS PASTEUR
6.
F
ALBERT EINSTEIN
7.
B
PYTHAGORAS
8.
C
MENDEL
Homework
- Learn new words
- Search for more information on Marie Curie’s life and other scientists’
- Prepare SPEAKING lesson