Pearson Longman Keystone C Unit 2 Reading 4
- 1. Unit 2 Reading 4 The Great Fever
- 2. Big Question What are the benefits of facing challenges?
- 3. Build Background • Spanish-American War 1898 • Yellow Fever
- 9. Yellow Fever
- 10. Key Words • Disease • Experiment • Fever • Hypothesis • Mosquitoes • Virus
- 11. Disease
- 12. Experiment
- 13. Fever
- 14. Hypothesis
- 15. Mosquitoes
- 16. Virus
- 17. Key Words • Disease (Noun): an illness with specific symptoms. • Experiment (Noun): a scientific test to try out a theory or see the effect of something. • Fever (Noun): a higher-than-normal body temperature.
- 18. Key Words • Hypothesis (Noun): an unproven explanation. • Mosquitoes (Noun): small flying insects; the females bite and suck blood from people or animals. • Virus (Noun): a tiny living thing that grows in living cells and causes some illnesses.
- 19. Key Words Let’s do Workbook page 65
- 21. Academic Words • Objective • Theory • Transmit • Volunteers
- 22. Academic Words Let’s do Workbook page 66
- 23. Words from the Text • Vaccine (N): substance that is injected into a person’s body to protect him or her from a disease.
- 24. Words from the Text • Proof (N): facts or information that shows something is true.
- 25. Words from the Text • Flyswatter (N): an instrument for killing flies.
- 26. Words from the Text • Fierce (Adj): angry, aggressive and frightening.
- 27. Words from the Text • Commission (N): group of people with the official job of getting information about something.
- 28. Reading Strategy
- 29. Cause - Effect Many people think that they can get sick by going into cold weather improperly dressed; however, illnesses are not caused by temperature, they are caused by germs. So while shivering outside in the cold probably won’t help your immune system, you’re more likely to contract an illness indoors because you will have a greater exposure to germs.
- 30. Cause - Effect
- 31. Reading Strategy Let’s do Workbook page 68
- 32. Now, let’s complete the Graphic Organizer!!!