Unit1 Living Well

Warming up Look at the following pictures. What’s wrong with them?

blind armless

deaf Beethoven

Deaf-mute

paralytic lame ！ legless hunchback dwarf

Can you use a word to describe them ? Disability !

How many different types of disabilities do you know?

Types of Disabilities can’t see blind deaf can’t hear mute can’t speak Physically disabled lame can’t walk normally have no feeling in a certain part of the body paralytic 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

Can you name some other great disabled people?

Hawking (Black holes theory)

Speech impaired, can only move one of his fingers Steven Hawking 1942 England Speech impaired, can only move one of his fingers Physicist / mathematician made a research in the beginning of space, matter and time.

Helen Keller Blind, deaf and dumb

Zhang Haidi: writer , paralytic, in a wheelchair

Thomas Edison: scientist and inventor, slightly deaf Do you know him?

Zheng Zhihua: singer, lame Do you know him?

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 2008 Olympic Games and helped organize the Paralympics （残疾人运动会） ！

1. Look at the pictures, then guess what disability each of them has. 2. Read the text under them on Page 1 and to test your answers.

1. Rosalyn is in a wheelchair. 2. Richard has very poor eyesight and so could not read the questions or write the answers for his college entrance exams. 3. Sally is hearing impaired though not deaf. 4. Gao Qiang was born with Down’s Syndrome.

Discussion the disabled people optimism belief will patience What spirits and characteristics make the disabled successful? optimism belief the disabled people will patience confidence independence determination

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

Look at the pictures, read the text under them on Page 1 and say what disability each of them has.

1. Rosalyn is in a wheelchair. 2. Richard has very poor eyesight and so could not read the questions or write the answers for his college entrance exams. 3. Sally is hearing impaired though not deaf. 4. Gao Qiang was born with Down’s Syndrome.

Discussion the disabled people optimism belief will patience What spirits and characteristics make the disabled successful? optimism belief the disabled people will patience confidence independence determination

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

Homework Finish the following phrases and recite them.

使做某事对某人而言成为可能。 做某事感到骄傲 3. 打破记录 4.大学入学考试 生活忙碌 6. 适合…… 7. 起重要作用 8. 上课 9. 浏览 10. 看电影