Louis Pasteur
Isaac Newton
Famous
Scientists
Albert Einstein
Marie Curie
Louis Pasteur developed the
vaccine for preventing rabies.
bệnh dại
Isaac Newton is famous for his
discovery of gravity.
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Albert Einstein is famous for his
special and general theories of
relativity.
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Marie Curie determined the
atomic weight of radium.
Nguyên tố
phóng xạ
Marie
Curie’s
Backgrou
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Thursday, September 24th , 2009
Lesson: Reading
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3. At the Sorbonne, she
studied very well.
4. She married Pierre 189
Curie in
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5. She was the first
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III. Answer the questions:
1. When and where was Marie Curie
born?
2. What kind of student was she?
3. Why did she work as a private
tutor?
4. For what service was she awarded
a Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
5. Was the prize her real joy? Why?
Why not?
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1. When and where was Marie Curie bor
She was born in Warsaw on November
2. What kind of student was she?
She was a brilliant and
mature student.
3. Why did she work as a private
tutor?
She worked as a private tutor to save
money for a study abroad.
4. For what service was she
awarded a Nobel Prize in
Chemistry?
She was awarded a Nobel Prize in
Chemistry for determining the
atomic weight of radium.
5. Was the prize her real joy? Why?
Why not?
No, it wasn’t. Her real joy was
“easing human suffering”.
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Answer keys:
1. When and where was Marie Curie born?
→ She was born in Warsaw on November 7,
1867
2. What kind of student was she?
→ She was a brilliant and mature student.
3. Why did she work as a private tutor?
→ She worked as a private tutor to save
money for a study abroad.
4. For what service was she awarded a
Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
→ She was awarded a Nobel Prize in
Chemistry for determining the atomic
weight of radium.
5. Was the prize her real joy? Why? Why
IV. Retell:
- Marie Curie/born/Warsaw/Nov 7, 1867.
She/go/school/Warsaw/but/studies/interrupted.
- In 1891/she/go/Sorbonne School.
- She/marry/Pierre Curie/1895.
- In 1903/she/become/first
woman/receive/PhD /Sorbonne.
- In 1906/she/become/first woman/be/university
professor/France.
- She/awarded/Nobel
Prize/Chemistry/determining/atomic
V. Homework:
Write the summary in your notebooks.
Prepare for section B - Speaking.