Learning about Language教学设计方案

Unit 1 Living well

(Warming Up —

Comprehending)

Warming Up is made up of two parts：discussing and talking. The purpose is to get students interested in the topic “disabilities”.

The reading passage Marty’s

Story presents a story that although Marty is a disabled boy, he never feels sorry for himself and he leads a good and busy life. This is the key part of this unit.

It is the fifth unit of the New Senior English For China Student’s

Book 7. It mainly practices the ability of reading and writing of students. The book includes a large number of new words, which are difficult for my students to understand. Therefore, it is important for them to preview the new words and the reading parts. The English of my students is poor. So it is difficult for them to get the main idea of the reading.

【知识目标】

1. Get students to learn the useful words and expressions in this unit. eyesight，ambition，disabled，beneficial，in other words，clumsy，adapt，microscope，out of breath，absence，stupid，fellow，annoyed，all in all，industry，tank，make fun of，encouragement，adapt to

2. Help students to learn about disabilities and life of the disabled.

【能力目标】

1. Let students read the passage Marty’s

Story to develop their reading ability.

2. Enable students to know that people with disabilities can also live well.

【情感目标】

1. By talking about disabilities and life of the disabled，make sure students can learn some positive stories of the disabled.

2. Help them understand more about how challenging life can be for the disabled.

3. Develop students’

sense of cooperative learning.

【教学重点】

Get students inspired by positive stories of the people with disabilities.

【教学难点】

1. Develop students’

reading ability.

2. Help students understand the difficulties the disabled have to overcome.

Part 1 Reading

Step 1 Warming up With a partner, discuss what their disability might be.

Q1: What are disabilities? Disabilities can be visible or invisible. People

with invisible disabilities don’t

look disabled. Depression, sleep disorders and learning difficulty are invisible disabilities. No matter what disability one has, life is not easy. They have many difficulties to overcome, but please keep in mind they can also live well, and even achieve great success. Q2:Do you know of any famous people who are disabled? What do they do? Ask them to answer the questions. Give a conclusion:

“Even

as he sits helpless in his wheelchair, his mind seems to soar ever more brilliantly across the vastness of space and time to unlock the secrets of the universe.”

Q3:Introduce Ludwig Von Beethoven

Step 2 Pre-reading The purpose of the website：

1. To give ordinary young people with a disability the chance to share their stories with others.

2. To inspire other disabled people.

3. To get non-disabled people to understand more about how challenging life can be for people with disabilities.

Step 3 Reading

While reading

Skimming: Sum up the main idea of each paragraph. Para1:

A ____________to Marty and his muscle disease. Para 2:

How the disease______________. Para3: Marty met a lot of _________at school.

Para 4: How his life has become_______. Para 5: The __________of his disease.

Scanning:

Para1:

Disease

____ ____ _________

that makes him very weak.

Difficulties

_________and can’t

____

or ______ stairs as quickly as other people. Motto

To live one day ___ _____ ______. What does “live

one day at a time”

mean? Live a rich and full life every day. Para 2-3:

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.

Para 4

What are the Marty’s

ambition, achievement and hobby? 1.Marty’s

ambition ______________ 2. Marty’s

achievement__________ 3.Marty’s

hobby________________ Para 5 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.

Further understanding (1):

the change of Marty’s

feelings:

hopeful

hopeless

stupid

not get annoyed

good/busy

Further understanding (2):

We can see that Marty is a ____ person Step 4 Comprehending.

1. Read Marty’s

story and fill in the table.

Problems caused by his disability

1. ____ and can’t

run or climb stairs as quickly as others 2.

_____ and often drop things or bump into furniture

3. can’t

play football and can only enjoy

football matches from a bench at a stadium 4. has missed a lot of school

5. feels stupid because of being behind the others What Marty does in spite of his disability 1. enjoys ______ and computer programming 2. invented a computer football game 3. looks after pets

4. disability has helped him grow psychologically and become more independent

Others’

attitude

◆

At primary school, sometimes kids _________ me.

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At high school, my fellow students have begun to ______ me for who I am. His own attitude

◆

I used to feel ______ because of being behind the others.

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Now I have no time to sit around feeling _____ for myself.

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My disability has made me grow stronger and more.