第2/632期初三教案

Isabella

 

 

Cute cure for virus (P6)

 

 

I. Warm up

·What is it?

1. What’s the name of this animal in English?

 

2. Do you like it? Why or why not?

 

    If you’ve ever seen an alpaca (羊驼), you might just think they’re fuzzy and cute.

       They are gentle and curious and with training can become great pets. Alpacas spit when they are upset or feel threatened (威胁). They will sometimes spit at each other when they are competing for food.

 

3. What are these two things?

 

4. Is there any connection between them?

 

 

II. While reading

Fast reading

·5. Why are scientists studying alpacas?

A. To help with research on

    HIV.

B. To develop a vaccine for  

    COVID-19.

C. To invent effective medicines

     for HIV.

D. To test new medicines for

     COVID-19.

 

B.

 

6. What do alpacas look like?

 

7. Why are scientists interested in them?

 

They look like sheep or camels.

 

Because they can create nanobodies that can fight COVID-19.

 

 

Careful reading

 

·8. What is the role of nanobodies?

A. Protecting cells from infection.

B. Producing viral spike proteins.

C. Infecting body cells.

D. Killing viruses.

 

A

9. What does the word “infection” mean?

 

________________________________________

 

 

· 10. What are Paragraphs 3-4 about?

A. How animals create

    antibodies.

B. How alpacas’ bodies

    react to viruses.

C. How alpacas get infected

    with COVID-19.

D. How animals protect 

    themselves from danger.

 

B.

· 11. What does the phrase “plug up” mean?

A. add

B. connect

C. fill

D. start

 

C.

· 12. What do we know from the story?

A. The research on nanobodies  

    uses a special method.

B. The research on nanobodies

    hasn’t gone well.

C. The nanobodies have been

    tried on humans.

D. The nanobodies will continue

    to be tested

D.

 

III. Words in use

Complete the sentences using the words provided.

 

actually    require    unique    effective    infection

 

1. It would _____ more than a lifetime to complete the research.

2. This medicine is ________ if used within three years.

3. What did she ______ say?

4. A cold is caused by an _______ of the upper respiratory tract (上呼吸道).

5. Everyone's fingerprints are ______.

 

require

effective

Rap

actually

infection

unique

 

IV. Further thinking

·Some animals can make us sick. But scientists have also used animals to do research in order to find cures for diseases.

What do you think about the relationship between humans and animals?