Warmingup

Florence Nightingale “The lady of the lamp” (1820 – 1910) was an English nurse, writer and statistician. The annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday.
the People’s Republic. She busied herself with various welfare activities, ranging from heading the Women’s Federation to a number of committees involving children.
She is the only woman scientist who was awarded Nobel Prize for two times.
In the year 1903, she and another scientist were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of radium.
In 1933, she studied in Vienna and then returned to China to work for women and children’s diseases.
Lin Qiaozhi (1901-1983)
China
A doctor who became a specialist in women’s illnesses. She devoted all her life to medical work for Chinese women and children. Her work encouraged many other women to become doctors.
Ada E. Yonath (born 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer. In 2009, she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with two men scientists.
Ada E. Yonath
--- Madame Curie
Mother Teresa
• Mother Teresa changed many people's lives. Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in Macedonia. Her father was a builder. When she was young, Mother Teresa studied religion and loved everyone .She became a nun in Ireland and left for India in 1929.She taught Geography for many years in India .She spent her life caring for the poor. Mother Teresa was awarded the Noble Peace Prize in 1979.She died in 1997 when she was 87.
In 1818, she and 11 other Quakers talked to the leaders of Britain about life in Prison. By the 1820s she and her work had become well known .
Soong Chingling (1893-1981), China
Deng Yingchao (1904 -1992), participated as a team leader in the May Fourth Movement. She promoted the abolition(取消， 废除） of foot binding imposed on women.
Elizabeth Fry was a Quaker. She helped improve prison condition and gave prisoners work and education. Her work helped the Quakers get the Nobel Elizabeth Fry Peace Prize in 1947. (1780-1845), Britain
A Chinese saying goes:
Women can hold up half of the sky.
Who are they?
A girl from the
countryside and went to fight for
the French and to drive the
Joan of Arc English out of France. She
(1412-1432) was caught and put to
France
death by the English.
She was born in the small village in France. She lived at the time when there was a war between England and France called “The Hundred Years War”. She showed the French army how to win battles and inspired them with the confidence
Wu Zetian was the only
woman who ever ruled
the Chinese empire in
her own right,her actions
have been a subject for
debate for more ten
centuries. She was the most remarkable(非凡的), influential (有影响的)and mysterious(神秘的) woman in Chinese history.
In 1915, She married Dr Sun Yet-sen, founder of the Republic of China. After her Soong husband died in 1925, she Qingling supported the Communist Party even though most of her family were members of the Kuomintang. She was made an honorary vice-president of
She was the only
female monarch (君主 )
of China.
She lived in Tang Dynasty.
Empress Wu Zetian (624 - 705)
She ruled the empire
(帝国 ) for over half a
century.
Unit 4
Unit 1 Women of achievement
What do you want to do after you grow up? Do you want to be a great person?
?
What do you think is needed in order to be a great woman?
Intelligent wise responsible
great woman
modest Determined
energetic
Do you know some great and successful women around the world or in the history?
Guess who they are….
On July 4,1934, she died in Paris, killed by her own experiments. She died of radiation poisoning.
Life is not easy for any of us. We must work, and above all we must believe in ourselves. We must believe that each one of us is able to do something well. When we discover what this something is, we must work hard at it until we succeed.
She was born in Xiamen . Her parents were Christians and her father believed in the education of women. At elementary school one of her teachers encouraged her to become a doctor . In 1929, She graduated from the University with a PhD degree in gynecology.
enough to defeat the English and send them back to England for good.(永远地）
AT that time it was considered wrong for women to fight in the army.