Unit1 Living Well Warming up & Reading

How many different types of disabilities do you know?

Types of Disabilities blind deaf mute Physically lame disabled can’t see deaf can’t hear mute can’t speak Physically disabled lame can’t walk normally paralytic have no feeling in a certain part of the body armless legless lose a certain part of the body handless dwarf a very short and small person hunchback have a hump(驼峰) on the back Mentally disabled can’t behave properly or normally

Goddess of Mercy of a thousand hands

中国残疾人艺术团的经典节目《千手观音》

Can you name some great disabled people? And what have they tried to do to overcome these difficulties?

肌萎缩性侧索硬化症 (Black holes theory) Steven Hawking 1942 England 肌萎缩性侧索硬化症 (Black holes theory)

Helen Keller 1882—1968 United Kingdom blind, dumb and deaf. a famous writer --- “Three days To See.”

Zhang Haidi: paralytic, in a wheelchair writer ,translator

Beethoven Deaf Composed Symphony of Fate

Sanglan（桑兰） 1981 --, China. a famous gymnast (体操运动员).She hurt herself seriously in a competition and can’t stand. She helped to bid投标，申办 2008 Olympic Games and helped organize the Paralympics （残疾人运动会）

What do you learn from these disabled? They’re broken in body but firm in spirit. （身残志坚）

Pre-reading

The purpose of the website： 1. To give ordinary young people with a disability the chance to share their stories with others. 2. To inspire other disabled people. 3. To get non-disabled people to understand more about how challenging life can be for people with disabilities.

Reading Marty’s Story Let’s read Marty’s Story which is from the family village website. Then do the following exercises.

Marty’s Story

Skimming Match the main idea of each paragraph. Para.1: A. How his life has become easier B. The advantages of his disease Para.2: C. An introduction to Marty and his muscle disease. Para.3: Para.4: D. How his disability developed E. Marty met a lot of difficulties at school. Para.5:

Live a rich and full life every day. Para1: Scanning: A muscle disease ____ ____ _________ that makes him very weak. disease Clumsy _________and can’t ____ or ______stairs as quickly as other people. run climb difficulties at a time motto To live one day ___ _____ ______. What does “live one day at a time” mean? Live a rich and full life every day.

Para 2-3: Why did the doctors cut out a piece of muscle from Marty’s leg? Because they could cure the disease by cutting it out. Because they wanted to use it as a specimen(标本). Because they would transplant(移植) the new muscle. Because they wanted to find out the cause of the disease. 2. What difficulties did Marty meet with at school?

Work for a film that develops computer software when he grew up. Para 4 What are the Marty’s ambition, achievement and hobby? Marty’s ambition ______________________________________________________ 2. Marty’s achievement _________________________ 3.Marty’s hobby________________ Work for a film that develops computer software when he grew up. Invented a computer football game and a big company has decided to buy it. Movies,football matches;look after pets

1. Don’t feel sorry for them. 2. Don’t make fun of them. Para 5 Marty’s advice : 1. Don’t feel sorry for them. 2. Don’t make fun of them. 3. Don’t ignore them. 4. Accept them for who they are. 5. Encourage them to live as rich and full a life as you do.

We can see that Marty is a ____ person. Further understanding (2): optimistic optimistic, brave, stupid, pessimistic, independent, strong-minded… brave independent strong-minded

Choose the right answer. 1). Marty has ____ disease. A. a mental B. a muscle C. a brain D. a hand B.

2). When Marty says “I am one in a million”, he really means _____. A 2). When Marty says “I am one in a million”, he really means _____. A. he is unique B. he has a rare disease C. he has a muscle disease D. he lives a hard but happy life B

3). Which of the following is TRUE according to the text. _______ A 3). Which of the following is TRUE according to the text? _______ A. While at high school, not all Marty’s classmates accept him. B. A big company bought the computer game from Marty. C. The doctors know Marty’s disease well but they hide the truth. D. Marty looks quite different from others because of his disease. A

4). Why did the doctors cut out a piece of muscle from Marty’s leg. A 4). Why did the doctors cut out a piece of muscle from Marty’s leg? A. Because they could cure the disease by cutting it out. B. Because they wanted to use it as a specimen (标本). C. Because they would transplant the new muscle. D. Because they wanted to find out the cause of the disease. D.

5). From the passage we can infer that ____. A. Marty asks others to feel sorry for him. B. Marty never loses heart. C. Marty is afraid of being made fun of. D. Marty will not accept any encouragement because he has grown stronger. B.

6). What’s Marty’s dream? A. Being a famous football player and representing his country in the World Cup. B. Being a doctor. C. Being a college student. D. Being a basketball player. A.

8). What is the tone of the text. A. sad. B. happy. C. positive. D 8). What is the tone of the text? A. sad. B. happy. C. positive. D. negative. C

1.What kind of person do you think Marty is? Marty seems to be a fairly positive person who considers he has a good life. He is realistic about his disability, but does not let this stop him doing as much as he can. He is psychologically strong, independent boy.

2. What do you think is the most difficult thing that Marty has to deal with in his life? Missing lots of school, not being able to run around and play sports like other boys at his age, people not understanding that he has a disability.

3. What kind of thing does Marty do in order to make his life happy and satisfying? Marty keeps busy doing things that do not require physical strength, like computer programming. He has friends with whom he can go to movies and football matches and he has lots of pets. He also studies hard.

4. What can other people do to help Marty and others like him live a good life? They can accept people with disabilities like Marty for who they are rather than focus on their disability. They can encourage them to live rich and full lives.

5. Why has his fellow students’ conduct changed towards Marty? Because they found that Marty was able to live as rich and full a life as everyone else.

6.How would your life change if you were to develop a muscle disease like Marty's?

What’s the main idea of the text? Though he is a ________ person, Marty never feels sorry for himself and he enjoys his life. disabled

1.Do you think disabled people can live Let me try! After-reading: 1.Do you think disabled people can live a happy life as normal people now?

A free debate For: Disabled people can live a happy life as normal people now Against: Disabled people may not live a happy life as normal people now

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