Teaching Aims:

1.Learn and master the following words and expressions:get around(=get about),fair,guidance,gifted,assist,cooperate,recognition,sympathy,encouragement,productive,visual,impair,motivate,disappointing,adjust to,get used to

2.Train the students’ reading ability.

Teaching Important Points:

1.Improve the students’ reading ability.

2.Enable the students to understand the text better.

3.How to get the students to master the useful expressions.

Teaching Difficult Points:

Master the following sentence structures:

1.…studying together with their disabled classmates is both challenging and rewarding. Living with disability is frustrating and challenging.

2.I am and get used to the fact that while I may not be…

Teaching Methods:

1.Discussion to help the students know something about the disabled.

2.Fast reading to get the general idea of the text.

3.Questioning-and-answering activity to help the students go through the whole passage.

4.Pair work or individual work to make every student work in class.

Teaching Aids:

1.a tape recorder

2.a multimedia

Teaching Procedures:

Step Ⅰ Greetings and Revision

(Greet the whole class as usual.)

T:Yesterday we learned what difficulties and dangers the disabled might face and how to help them in our daily life.Imagine you are disabled.Who’d like to describe the situation(If you were blind/deaf etc.)and tell us how you would deal with them.

S:I’ll try.…

(All the others listen carefully.)

T:Well done.No matter what difficulties he may meet with,we all hope he can enjoy himself.

Step Ⅱ Lead-in and Pre-reading

T:Yeah.We know people with disabilities may have lots of difficulties in their lives,but many of them are determined.They can overcome any difficulty.Please look at the three questions on the screen and discuss them in groups.

(Show the following on the screen.)

1.Do you know anyone who is disabled?

How does he or she deal with the disability?

2.Do you know of any famous people who are disabled?What do they do?

3.Should disabled students be allowed to go to college?Should they get any extra help?Why or why not?

(Teacher gives students five minutes to discuss and collects their answers.)

Suggested answers:

1.Yes.I know a person with disability.He has learnt to do many things without help.He can take care of himself at home,but getting around in the city in a wheelchair is often frustrated.He loves reading stories of young disabled people who have overcome great difficulties.

2.Yes,I do.Beethoven was a great musician,Helen Keller was a great American writer,and Zhang Haidi is also a writer.

3.Yes,they should.Because there are many gifted disabled students,they can make a contribution to the society.

They should get some extra help in their everyday activities.

No,they shouldn’t.Because they need recognition,more than sympathy and help.

Step Ⅲ Reading

T:OK.Today we’ll read a text “Disabled?Not me!”and know something more about it.I think you are interested in it.Please turn to Page 17.Read the passage quickly to get the general idea and answer the questions on the screen.

(Teacher shows the questions on the screen.)

1.What’s the trouble of Zhong Xiaowen?

2.How does she get around?

3.What’s the teachers’ aim in the special college?

4.What do the articles in Literature of Chinese Blind Children talk about?

5.How does Zijie like the magazine?

(Teacher gives students enough time to read the text and collects their answers.)

Suggested answers:

1.Xiaowen was born without the ability to use her legs and she has no feeling below the waist.

2.She uses a wheelchair to get around.

3.Their aim is to help disabled students understand that they can play a valuable role within society.

4.The articles are often about disabled people who have overcome challenges and difficulties and learnt to live a meaningful and productive life.

5.He loves the magazine very much.He thinks it is very important for them to know that someone far away is also struggling as they are.

T:Now read the passage again and try to get as much information as you can.

Step Ⅳ Study for Language Points

T:Now you’ve known the general idea of the passage.Please look at the screen.I’ll explain something to you.

(Show the following on the screen.)

a.treat vt. treat sb. well(badly)

e.g.Don’t treat me as a child.

Which doctors are treating her for her illness?

b.ability n. the ability to do,a man of ability

e.g.Man has the ability to speak.

c.make a contribution to

e.g.We must do something useful and make a contribution to our country.

d.launch vt.

①launch a man-made satellite

②launch a new enterprise

③launch threats against sb.

e.play a …role(in,within)

e.g.He played a leading role in a film.

f.both…and…

e.g.Both you and I are students.

He both fears and hates at once.

g.…studying together with their disabled classmates is both challenging and rewarding.

Living with disability is frustrating and challenging.

In these two sentences,gerundial phrases are used as subject.

e.g.Working with him is a great pleasure.

h.…I am and get used to the fact that while…Here that-clause is used as appositive clause,expressing the fact.

e.g.The fact that he came here was known to us all.

(Write important phrases and difficult sentences on the blackboard.)

T:(After explaining the language points.)

Do you have anything you don’t understand?If you have,please tell me,I’ll be glad to have a discussion with you.

(The teacher answers the questions raised by the students.)

Step Ⅴ Listening and Consolidation

T:Let’s listen to the tape.I’ll play the tape twice.When I first play it,just listen.When I play it for the second time,listen and repeat it.Are you clear about it?

(The teacher plays the tape for the students to listen and repeat.While the students read,the teacher goes among the students to correct the students’ mistakes in pronunciation,intonation and stress.)

T:Now turn to Page 52.There are five questions for you to answer in Post-reading.Try to find the answers in the text.Discuss in groups of four,and then I’ll ask some of you to read your answers.

(A few minutes later.)

T:Are you ready?

Ss:Yes.

T:Now let’s begin.

S1:They have to use wheelchairs to get around and it often takes them a little longer to do everyday things,such as getting out of bed,getting dressed and going to class.

S2:They not only learn how to assist disabled people,but also learn the importance of cooperating to reach their goals in life.

S3:They help disabled students to understand that they can play a valuable role within society,and inspire many of them to believe that they can realize their dreams.

S4:Today there are more opportunities like the special Olympics for disabled people to develop their potential,live a richer life and make a contribution to society.

Because people understand that they can play a valuable role within society,and that they need recognition,more than sympathy and help.

S5:People must make sure that all of us should have equal access to all areas and facilities.People should treat me fairly.

Step Ⅵ Summary and Homework

T:Today we have learned the passage-Disabled?Not me!From the success of the disabled student-Zhong Xiaowen,we learn something important.There is nothing difficult in the world if you stick to it.When you meet with difficulty in your life and study,please don’t lose heart.On the other hand,we should help the students to know how to help the disabled in our daily life.

And we also learn some phrases.After class,you should work hard and master them.

Step Ⅶ The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard

Unit 17 Disabilities

The Second Period

1.Important Phrases:

treat sb.,the ability to do,make a contribution to launch,play a …role,both…and…,get used to

2.Difficult Sentences:

…I am and get used to the fact that while…

I may not be able to walk,there are many other great things I can do.

Step Ⅷ Record after Teaching