Reading

Pre-reading How many different types of disabilities do you know? A. physical disability B. mental disability deaf, dumb/mute, blind, lame, near-sighted, six fingers, color blindness, paralyzed

2. Do you know of any famous people who are disabled? What do they do? 3. Should disabled students be allowed to go to university? Should they get any extra help? Why or why not?

Zhang Haidi Writer Paralyzed

Beethoven a musician deaf

Professor Hawking a paralyzed physics expert

Hu Yizhou Conductor Mentally disabled

Helen Keller Educator/ writer Deaf and blind

Vincent Van Gogh Painter Epilepsy

Skimming Read the whole text quickly and try to find the topic sentence of each paragraph.

Para.1 I know people are trying to help, but I wish they wouldn’t treat me as if I were a child. Para.2 Today there are more opportunities for disabled people to develop their potential, live a richer life and make a contribution to the society.

Para.3 Disabled people need recognition more than sympathy and help. Para.4 Like all of us, disabled people also need inspiration and encouragement.

Para.5 About one third of the articles in Literature of Chinese blind children are written by disabled authors and blind children. Para.6 Living with disability is frustrating and challenging.

Listening Listening to the tape of the passage and finish the following task.

True or False Zhong Xiaowen doesn’t wish to be treated as a little child. 2. Xiaowen’s story serves as an example to show that physical disabilities can limit a person’s life. T F

3. All the students in the Beijing Union University are not disable. 4. The disabled people need both recognition and inspiration and encouragement. T T

5. Literature of Chinese Blind Children is a great help in encouraging blind children to overcome difficulties and challenges. 6. Ye Zijie’s story is mentioned to show how disabled people write articles for newspapers and magazines. T F

7. In 2000 Ye Zijie was invited to London and became the first Chinese to study abroad. 8. It might be frustrating and challenging to live with disability. F T

Scanning Read the whole text carefully and try to answer some questions.

1. Make an introduction to Zhong Xiaowen. Questions 1. Make an introduction to Zhong Xiaowen. 2. Are all the students in the Beijing Union University disabled? What do they learn? 3. What do the disabled people need?

4. Who and when started the magazine Literature of Chinese Blind Children? What are the articles in the magazine about? 5. Who is Ye Zijie? What happened to him in the year of 2000? What is his feeling about this good news?

6. Does everyone feel comfortable with the disabled people 6. Does everyone feel comfortable with the disabled people? How should we view the disabled people ?

Discussion Physically disabled and mentally disabled , which one do you think is more serious ? why?

Language points 很强烈的字眼, 用于罕见的人或其罕有的能力。 genius: 较不强烈, 用来指人天生的能力, 但不用来指人本身。 指做某事之能力, 是可以从 学习得来的。 genius: talent: skill/ability:

e.g. Einstein was a genius. She has a talent for music. She weaves with great skill /ability.

☆Helen Keller was not a born disabled person. − adj.  Nothing disabled her at birth.  She was not a person with disabilities at birth. − vt. − n.

☆ Today there are more opportunities for disabled people to develop their potential, live a richer life and make a contribution to society.

live a …life live a happy life live a meaningful and productive life He lives a dog’s life. = He lives a poor life. = He is as poor as a church mouse.

☆ make a contribution to … = contribute to … e.g. Chaplin made a great contribution to the film industry. = Chaplin contributed to the film industry. to (prep.) + n. / doing

介词to短语总结 adapt to, adjust to, be addicted to, contribute to, draw (one’s) attention to, devote oneself to, get / be used to, get down to, help oneself to, lead to, make a contribution to, pay attention to, prefer… to…, etc.

assist v. --- to help or support. e.g. She assisted (him) in building the house. Good glasses will assist you to read.

help与assist 意义常相同。 assist 常指受协助的人能做一部分工作。 aid 指援助一群人,特别是用钱。 e.g. One _____ someone who is drowning. One ______________someone who is moving a piano _____for developing countries. helps helps/assists Aid

challenge − n. e.g. He accepted his friend’s challenge to swim across the river. − v. e.g. His friend challenged him to swim across the river.

challenging 　 − adj. e.g. Snoopy is reading a challenging (有吸引力的)book, which is full of challenging (具挑战性的) ideas.

fail to do sth. = not perform or not do 无法做到; 不做 e.g. Something wrong makes the TV set fail to pick up programs. By preparing for and participating in the Special Olympics. participate in … / with … participant (in) …