Module 7 unit2 Fit for life
aspirin
penicillin
❖What are the two medicines mentioned in the article?
❖When was one of the medicines first sold as a tablet?
❖What did Fleming, Florey and Chain share?
➢When did people find that drinking a special
tea could reduce fever and pain?
➢When was ASA first made from other chemicals?➢What other things can ASA help with besides reducing fever and pain?
➢Where did Alexander Fleming find penicillin?
➢What illnesses can penicillin be used to treat?➢Why were Fleming, Florey and Chain given the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945?
Fill in the boxes. Sold in shops
as a tablet 1900
1928
Discovered by Alexander Fleming World
War II
Found new
chemical
techniques
to purify it
All the scientists
shared the Nobel
Prize
1945
As the best-
selling painkiller
recorded in the
Guinness Book
1950
1971
1977
2003
19001928
World
War II1945
19501971
1977
2003 Proved to be a
blood-thinning
medicine
Used to prevent a
stroke
Used to reduce
blood sugar levels
Fill in the boxes.
1. physician
2. bark
3. painkiller
4. thinning
5. contemporary
6. transparent
7. purify
8. quantities
9. widespread a.modern, of present time
b.happening in a lot of places
c.a medical doctor who does not perform operations
d.amounts of something
e.the skin of a tree
f.to make pure
g.a type of medicine used to reduce pain
h.clear and able to be seen through
i.making a liquid less thick
aspirin a medicine that was __________in
1897. It has saved and brought relief to millions of people ’s lives. It is made from a chemical
called _____and was first sole as a tablet in
1900. This was the first medicine to be sold as a standardized ______. It works by reducing fever and pain. It is now______________for reducing
potential heart attacks, strokes and cancer.
Many reports have been___________about
how aspirin can improve people ’s health.
published; recommended; ASA; tablet ; invented invented ASA tablet
recommended published
contemporary; discovered; available
penicillin a chemical in mould that was first __________in 1928, but it was not until World War II that penicillin was purified to be used as a medicine. It was needed as soon as it was ________because there were many people injured in the war. It was fundamental to saving many thousands of lives and is one of the most important medicines of _____________society.
discovered available contemporary
Discussion
What do you think the world would be like if
there were no medicines?
Retell the text.
Finish EX. D1&D2 on page113。