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2. Let’s play a guessing game! Get together with a classmate and follow these instructions: • Write down a list of six scientists, electronic devices, movies or other things related to science and technology. • Don’t show it to your classmate. • Explain each item on your list to your classmate. You have fi ve minutes to do that. • Tick off the ones he/she guesses. How many words from the list was your classmate able to guess? Writing Getting Ready to Write 1. What do you know about the Nobel Prize? Get together with a classmate and discuss the questions below. a. How many categories of Nobel Prize do you know? b. Do you know any people who have won the Nobel Prize? Who are they? O prêmio Nobel é uma premiação mundial de reconhecimento de pessoas ou instituições que trabalham em benefício da sociedade. É ofertado pela Fundação Nobel todos os anos, na data de 10 de dezembro, nas cidades de Oslo (Noruega) e Estocolmo (Suécia), atualmente nas categorias de Física, Química, Medicina, Literatura, Paz e Ciências Econômicas. Para saber mais sobre o prêmio, visite o site ofi cial: www.nobelprize.org/. Acesso em: 7 maio 2020. SUGGESTION WritingWriting Getting Ready to WriteGetting Ready to Write W Getting Ready to WGetting Ready to W EM13LGG104 EM13LGG403 EM13LGG701 1. Peça aos estudantes que dis- cutam brevemente as pergun- tas e, então, escolha alguns para relatar o que discutiram com os colegas. Em seguida, peça que leiam o quadro com informa- ções sobre o prêmio. Algumas pessoas que receberam o prê- mio foram citadas anteriormen- te na Unidade: Marie Curie (prê- mio Nobel de Física, 1903, e de Química, 1911) e Albert Einstein (prêmio Nobel de Física, 1921). Outras pessoas que receberam o prêmio, e que talvez sejam co- nhecidas pelos estudantes, são: Madre Teresa (prêmio Nobel da Paz, 1979), José Saramago (prê- mio Nobel de Literatura, 1998), Malala Yousafzai (prêmio Nobel da Paz, 2014) e Bob Dylan (prê- mio Nobel de Literatura, 2016). Respostas pessoais Yeah, bingo! He is a young scientist from Malawi who found a solution for the dry fi elds on his family’s farm. q u a v o n d o /E + /G e tt y I m a g e s Is that William Kamkwamba? 189 VU_INGLES_Amadeu_g21Sa_179a192_U12_LA.indd 189VU_INGLES_Amadeu_g21Sa_179a192_U12_LA.indd 189 16/09/2020 19:3216/09/2020 19:32 2. Scan the text and answer the following questions in your notebook. Then compare your answers with a classmate. Gertrude B. Elion The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988 Born: 23 January 1918, New York, NY, USA Died: 21 February 1999, Chapel Hill, NC, USA [...] Prize motivation: “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.” [...] Life Gertrude Elion was born in New York. When, as a teenager, she watched her maternal grandfather die of cancer, she decided to devote her life to fi ghting the disease. She studied chemistry at Hunter College and New York University, but, as a woman, had diffi culty fi nding work as a chemist. During World War II a lack of chemists arose because many men had joined the war, which led Gertrude Elion to fi nd work at a laboratory. In the mid-1940s she moved to Burroughs Wellcome’s research laboratory, where she remained until her death. Work Gertrude Elion’s research revolutionized both the development of new pharmaceuticals and the fi eld of medicine in general. [...] During the 1950s, Gertrude Elion, together with George Hitchings, developed a systematic method for producing drugs based on knowledge of biochemistry and diseases. One of the fi rst drugs produced by the pair was for leukemia and helped many children with the disease to survive. [...] GERTRUDE B. Elion Facts. NobelPrize.org. Available at: https:// www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1988/elion/facts/. Accessed on: May 7, 2020. B a n c o d e i m a g e n s /A rq u iv o d a e d it o ra W e llc o m e I m a g e s /S c ie n c e S o u rc e /F o to a re n a Gertrude B. Elion, 1988. 190 VU_INGLES_Amadeu_g21Sa_179a192_U12_LA.indd 190VU_INGLES_Amadeu_g21Sa_179a192_U12_LA.indd 190 01/09/2020 11:5501/09/2020 11:55
