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Unit 1 Living Well

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Period 1: Warming up and Reading

Teaching Aims

To learn something about disabilities and life of disabled people

To read about disabilities and life of disabled people. The students should know that people with disabilities can also live well

Teaching Procedures

Step I. Warming up

Warming up by defining:

Before we read about disabilities let’s try to define it first.

● What is disability? How many different types of disabilities do you know?

● disability: the state of being disabled / unable to use his body properly

A. physical disability

deaf, dumb/mute, blind, lame, near-sighted, six fingers, color blindness, paralyzed

B. mental disability

depression, learning difficulty, brain injury, phobias (恐惧症) …

Warming up by talking:

In groups of four talt what you know about disabilities. Use these words in the above box to support your talk.

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, even achieve great success.

Talking about disabilities

1. Do you know anyone who is disabled around you? How does he or she deal with the disabilities?

2. Do you know any famous people who are disabled? What do they do? Have a discussion about what the disabilities are and what difficulties they have to overcome in daily life.

Talking about famous people with disabilities

Reference One

Professor Steven Hawking is one of the disabled who has achieved success in his chosen field of work. In spite of his brain disease, he decides to continue with his research and writing, and his famous book “On History of Time” used to be a best seller. When he speaks, he has to use a computer and a voice box. When he answers questions, it tat two minutes. Not only does he have to type out the answer on a computer but he also gets the computer to translate it into sounds.

Reference Two

Helen Keller (1882—1968), blind and dumb, was a famous American writer. When she was only nineteen months old, she had a terrible disease. Then she became deaf and blind. In the next five years, she struggled in the dark and silent world. With the help of Anne Sullivan, she learnt to write and speak. She overcame the great difficulties and wrote a famous book “My life”, which became a best seller and she became a very well-known writer in the world.

Reference Three

Zhang Haidi was born in September 1955 in Jinan, Shandong Province. When she was five years old, she got a serious disease and the lower part of her body lost the feeling and the functions. Since then, she has been confined to wheelchair but she has never stopped her pursue for knowledge and a happy life.

She studied by herself all the courses from primary school to college and learned several foreign languages such as English and Japanese. In 1983, she began her career as a writer and a translator and her works have reached the total number of more than one million words. She has been active in social activities for public interests and she shows great care for the education of disabled children and village children. In 2001 she was entitled one of “the 20 most influencing women of the century around the world”.

Her idea that true happiness lies in the hard pursue encourages people to work harder for the society.

Look at the pictures and read what these people have achieved even though they each have a disability. The following list might help you.

mental disability learning difficulty hearing problem

difficulty with eyesight brain injury loss of an arm or leg

Down's Syndrome infantile paralysis walking difficulty

Picture One

Rosalyn loves sports. She is proud to have taken part in competitions and to have broken a record by running two laps (800 metres) this year. Her ambition is to

become part of the national team for the next Paralympic Games.

Picture Two

Richard has just passed his university entrance exams. He had the questions read to him and used dictation to give his answers into a special machine. He hopes to become a teacher.

Picture Three

Sally leads a busy life. She likes writing stories and playing basketball. When she'sfree, she goes to the movies because the sound is 'always very loud. Although some

may think the cinema is noisy, it is suitable for Sally's condition.

Picture Four

Gao Qiang loves acting. Last year he played a major part in the school play. Now his

ambition is to become an actor. He takes singing and dancing lessons after school.

Step II. Pre-reading

Asdents to read the pre-reading carefully and find out the purpose of the website. Discuss with a partner what kind of things you think people write about.