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A Ball to Roll Around

By Liu yong hua Teaching Aims 1.

Students can talk about the blind. 2. Students can understand the difficult sentences and get the main idea of the article.

Important points 1.

Reading abilities: skimming & scanning. 2.

Sentence structure: attributive clause, the more …… the more ……

Difficult point Reading abilities: skimming & scanning. Teaching methods Expository method, discussion method, direct method, import method, co-operative method, task-based teaching method Teaching aids Multi-media

Teaching procedure Step 1 Leading-in If you were blind one day, how do you feel? What will you do to face the reality?

Step 2 Pre-reading

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Activity 2 Vocabulary Learning 1.freight: goods carried by a large vehicle. 货物

2. bewildered: puzzled 困惑的

3. potential: the inherent capacity for coming into being 能力

4. collapse: break down, literally or mentally 崩溃

5. imperfection: disadvantage; fault 缺陷

6. elementary: easy 简单的

7. mock: laugh at 嘲笑

Step 3 While reading Activity 2 Reading Comprehension 1.

What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Believe yourself, never give up!

B. The blind find ways to play baseball.

C. Practice makes perfect.

D. A friend in need is a friend indeed. 2. According to the passage, the author ______.

A. never made progress

B. made progress although he failed sometimes

C. lost confidence to live

D. didn’t know how to play baseball 3. Which word can replace “bewildered”

in paragraph 3?

A. happy

B. anger

C. puzzled

D. eager

Activity 3 Translation

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1. It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn't been blind. 有一天我突然想到，倘若我不是盲人，我或许不会变得像现在这样热爱生活。

2. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. 人愈能及时地进行调整，他的个人世界便愈有意义。

3. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections a real, positive person and that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit. 我指的是大事：是坚信自己虽然有缺陷，却是一个真正的有进取心的人；坚信在芸芸众生错综复杂的格局当中，自有我可以安身立命的一席之地。

Activity 4: Detailed Information. 1. What happened when the author was four? He lost his sight. 2. What was the hardest lesson for the author?

Believe in himself. 3. One day, one thing changed the author's life, what is it? A baseball. 4. What was the author's attitude toward something which was wildly out of reach? He thought it was no good to try, because that only invited the bitterness of failure. 5. Main ideas of each paragraph.

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Para. 1

I lost my sight. Para. 4

I learned to believe in myself. Para. 2 The loss of sight made me appreciate more what I had left. Para. 6

I made progress although I failed sometimes. Para. 5

A baseball changed my life. Para. 3

I realized the adjustments to live a new life.

Step 4 Post reading Classroom Test 1. From the passage, we can learn that the author has the following characteristics EXCEPT ________.

A. self-confident

B. positive

C. hard-working

D. passive 2. Fill in the blanks. I lost my ______ when I was four. At first, I was ________ and _______. Then, with the help of parents and teachers, I found ways to live a new life. It was the loss of sight that made me believe in _____ and _______. I became confident and ________. I got a new idea how to play ________ after I receive it from a man. And I invented a successful game-- __________. All my life, I tried my best to reach the ______ I set. I knew it was no good to try something

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which was wildly ____________. I learned my _________. Generally speaking, I made ________ although I failed sometimes.

Step 5 After-class Assignment Appreciate Hellen Keller’s work: Three Days to See, and write down your feeling of about 150 words.

Teaching reflection

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