Warming up & Reading Unit 1 Living well

How many different types of disabilities do you know?

blind lame deaf-mute paralytic disabled people

armless legless handless disabled people hunchbacked

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

Steven Hawking England 肌萎缩性侧索硬化症 amyotrophic Speech impaired, can only move one of his fingers physicist / mathematician, research into the beginning of space, matter and time. (Black holes theory)

Composed Beethoven ( ) deaf

Helen Keller 1882—1968 United Kingdom blind, deaf and dumb learn to read Braille ( 盲文 ), to speak and write. Finished the studies in Radcliff College. educator and writer “Three days To See.”

Zhang Haidi: paralytic, in a wheelchair writer, translator

Sanglan ( 桑兰 ) 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 ).

mental disability learning difficulty hearing problem difficulty with eyesight brain injury loss of an arm or a leg Down’s Syndrome infantile paralysis walking difficulty Look at the pictures on Page 1, and discuss what their disability might be. The following list might help you.

The “Family Village” is a _______. To give ordinary young people with a disability a chance to share their stories with others. website The purpose of the website ：

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

Try to understand the text. 1. What is the main idea of Martin’s story? A.His disease is a mystery to doctors. B.The disabled should live a full life instead of giving up the hope. C.People around should not make fun of the disabled ones. D.Doctors should work hard to treat the unknown diseases. 2. When was Martin a patient of the unknown disease? A. Not until he was ten. B. Shortly after he was born. C. When he was in high school. D. After he invented the football computer game. B A

3. Martin’s life was easier at high school because __________. A. he got better with the help of the doctors B. he found more things enjoyable in life C. some students just ignored them D. he invented a computer program to help him 4. What does Martin often do in his life now? A. He sits around feeling sorry for himself. B. He works in the computer industry. C. He makes up the lessons he has missed. D. He keeps a pet and works hard to live a normal life. 5. What can we infer from the last paragraph? A. The disabled have to work to support themselves as people don’t like to take care of them. B. Healthy kids should have a chance to feel what disability is. C. Healthy people should give money to the disabled to make them happy. D. With determination and encouragement, the disabled can live a rich life. B D D

How his disability developed. Para. 1 Para. 2 Match the main idea of each paragraph.P3 Marty met a lot of difficulties at school. Para. 3 Para. 4 Para. 5 An introduction to Marty and his muscle disease. How his life has become easier. The benefits from his disease.

difficulties __ ______ _______ makes him very weak. ______ and can’t ___ or _____ stairs as quickly as other people. A muscle disease disease Clumsyrun climb motto live one day __ _ ____. What does “live one day at a time” mean? Live a rich and full life every day. Para.1 at a time

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( 移植 ) the new muscle. D. Because they wanted to find out the cause of the disease. Paras.2&3

What are the Marty’s ambition, achievement and hobby? 1) Marty’s ambition __________________________________ _______________________________ 2) Marty’s achievement __________________________________ 3) Marty’s hobby __________________________________ work for a film that develops computer software when he grows up. invented a computer football game and a big company has decided to buy it. movies, football matches; look after pets. Para.4

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. Para.5

We can see that Marty is a/an ____ person. optimistic, brave, positive, active, independent, strong-minded…

Find out which sentence in the text is the closest in meaning to the following. 1. We can also say that few people are the same as me. __________________________________________ 2. At times, my studies were affected because my illness prevented me from going to school. __________________________________________ _____________________________________ In other words, there are not many people like me Sometimes,too, I was too weak to go to school so my education suffered

Try to understand the difficult sentences. 1. Unfortunately, the doctors don’t know how to make me better, but I’m very outgoing and have learned to adapt to my disability. 翻译： _____________________________________________ __________________________ 本句是一个 _______ 句，副词 unfortunately 相当于从句 ____________________ 。 2. I think I had at least a billion tests, including one in which they cut out a piece of muscle from my leg and looked at it under a microscope. 翻译： _____________________________________________ _____________________________ 本句是一个 _______ 句， including one… 是 __________ 作 ­­­­­­________ ，修饰 ______________ 。在该分词短语中 in which they cut out… 是 _______ 从句，修饰 ______ 。 不幸的是，大夫们不知道如何治好我的病，但 是我很开朗乐观，学会了适应身体的残疾 并列 我想我至少做过十亿次检查，他们从我的腿部切 下一小块肌肉，放在显微镜下观察 It`s unfortunate that 复合 定语 现在分词短语 a billion tests 定语 one

3. So sometimes some children in my primary school would laugh, when I got out of breath after running a short way or had to stop and rest halfway up the stairs. 翻译， ———————————————————————— ——————————————————————————— ——————————————————————————— 本句是一个 _______ 句， when 引导 ______________ 。句中 would 表示 _______________ 。 4. I am happy to have found many things I can do, like writing and computer programming. 翻译： _________________________________________________ 本句是一个 _______ 句， I can do 是 _______ 从句，修饰 ____________ 。 like writing and computer programming 是介 词短语作 ________ ，修饰 __________ 。. 当我跑了很短的一段路之后，我就会喘不过气来，或 者爬楼梯才爬到一半就得停下来休息。因此，上小学时有的 孩子见了我这种情况就会笑话我。 复合 时间状语从句 过去习惯性的动作 很高兴我能做很多事情，比如写作和电脑编程 复合定语 things 定语 Manmany things

5. I have a very busy life with no time to sit around feeling sorry for myself. 翻译： ______________________________________ with no time to sit around 是 with 复合结构作 ____________ ，修饰前面的句子。 feeling sorry for myself 是 ___________ 作 _________ ，修饰 sit around 。短语 sit around 意思是 ____________ Step5.Homework: Retell the text 我的生活很充实，没有时间闲坐着顾影自怜 伴随状语 现在分词短语伴随状语 闲坐着

根据课文内容用合适的单词填空。 Marty Fielding suffered from muscle ______ when he was 10, which sometimes made him ______ and drop things or bump into furniture. disease clumsy

The doctors don’t know exactly what is wrong with him, so they don’t know ___ to make him better. But he has to learn to _____ to his disability. When some people cannot accept him for who he is, he doesn’t get _______. He just ______ them. how adapt annoyed ignores

All __all, he has a good life. His ________is to work in the computer ________when he grows up. He has a very happy life and doesn’t have time to sit around ______ sorry for himself. He is ______to have found many things he can do really well. in ambition industry feeling happy

In many ways his disability has made him grow stronger and more ___________. He has had to work hard to live a _______ life, but it has been _____ it. From him, we can learn more: Just having a________ doesn’t mean your life is not ________. independent normal worth disability satisfying

So don’t feel sorry for the _______ or make ___ of them and don’t ignore them either. Just accept them for who they are, and give them ______________to live as rich and full a life __ you do. as disabled fun encouragement

Do you think disabled people can live a happy life as normal people now? After-reading

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. A free debate

Homework  Retell Marty ’ s story according to the mini bio.  Surf the internet to learn more about the life of disabled people.

Thank you for listening!