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Do you know other famous persons with a mental or physical disability? Can you briefly introduce them? [disability, achievements]

Do you know other famous persons with a mental or physical disability? Can you briefly introduce them?

Zhou Zhou mentally disabled a famous conductor in China.

Beethoven Deaf World-famous composer

Tai Lihua The famous dancer in the Thousand-Hand Guanyin. Deaf and dumb

Franklin Roosevelt one of the greatest presidents of the US served up to four terms of office. paralyzed

Steven Hawking He can only move one of his fingers. He is Physicist and mathematician. He researches into the beginning of space, matter and time.

Thomas Edison deaf A great inventor More than 1000 inventions in his life including lights and phonograph

Zhang Haidi has no feeling below the waist, uses a wheel chair writer

What does the Family Village include? What is the value of this website? Pre- reading

Marty’s disease: _________________________ Marty’s motto :_______________________ Marty’s symptoms: ________________________ Marty’s achievement:_____________________ Marty’s ambition: ___________________________ Marty’s hobby: ___________________________ Marty’s advice:___________________________ ____________________________ _____________________________ A muscle disease weak, clumsy, tired To work in the computer industry Invented a computer game Watching movies\football matches, keeping pets To live one day at a time Don’t feel sorry for the disabled or make fun of them but accept them and encourage them

Problems caused by his disability What Marty does in spite of his disability 1. weak and can’t run or climb stairs as quickly as others enjoys writing and computer programming clumsy and often drop things or bump into furniture too tired to get out of bed has missed a lot of school and lessons feels stupid because of being behind the others after a long absence from school invented a computer football game looks after pets Disability has made him grow stronger and more independent.

Discussion 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 a mentally strong, independent boy.

In Paris, the disabled girl, Jinjing devoted her life to protect the Olympic Torch on April 8th. 1 23

Let me try! How should we treat the disabled persons? What can we do to help them?

Write an to the website “Family village” about your discussion! Homewor k Our discussion of what to help the disabled persons Dear Sirs: We think we should respect the disabled……

Let’s enjoy the song “Everyone is No.1”