Unit 17

Reading

Disabled? Not me?

Teaching Aims:

1 Learn and master the following words and expressions: disability, guidance , gifted, assist, cooperate, etc.

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 master the useful expressions.

Teaching difficult points:

Let the students understand the real meaning of “disability”.

Teaching Methods:

1 Use multi-media to help the teaching.

2 Fast reading to get the general idea.

3 Competitive activity to get the detailed information.

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

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Lead –in

Show the students the programme“Qian Shouguanyin”(a video) 3 minutes before class.

Enjoy and ask: * Are they dancing well?

* Can they hear people’s warm welcome?

(transition) They are disabled, “Disabled people” mean the people who can’t see/hear/speak/walk. etc.

Step 2 Pre-reading

Two simple questions to lead them.

Q1: Do you know of any famous people who are disabled?

( show the students a video about Zhouzhou and Steven Hawking )

Q2: How many kinds of disabilities do you know in your daily life?

( transition ) Now let’s move on to the next picture-a girl sitting in a wheelchair. Ask the students to guess who she is.

Step3 While-reading

① Questions to get the general idea.

Q1: What’s the trouble of Zhong Xiaowen?

Q2: How does she get around?

Q3: What’s the teacher’s aim in the special college?

Q4: How does Ye Zijie like the magazine?

② Games-playing

In this part, there are 3 rounds. Give each group his name and let them have a competition.

Round 1 Word-guessing

Show clues ( the explanations and paragraph numbers ) about the words.

* that may happen , possible ( para 2 ).

* guiding or being guided ( para 3 ).

* feeling of pity ( para 3 ).

* having a talent / an ability ( para 3).

* damaged or weakened ( para 5 ).

* inspire , lead to do sth ( para 5 ).

Round 2 Listening and note-making ( para 4-5 ).

A magazine

name

inspiration

content

writer

best-known reader

Round 3 Choice-making

There are 5 exercises in this part.

( transition ) Give congratulations to the winner and go on to the next period- Post-reading.

Step 4 Post reading ( pair work ).

Read again and discuss in pairs about the following questions.

Q1: What are some of the difficulties Xiaowen and other disabled students have to overcome?

Xiaowen and others

people’s attitudes

their bodies

?

?

Q2: Compare Xiaowen’s case with the other two pictures. What do you think of them?

( transition ) Anyhow, we should show our love and care to the disabled people. Since they have so many difficulties, let’s move on to the designing part.

Step 5 Designing

& Ask them to design products for helping disabled people and show them their love to them.

& Show the students one example.

Step 6 Doing gestures together.

Students can show their love to disabled people.

Step 7 End with quotations.

① We should love our body, love our life.

② It is not frightening if you are disabled in body, but it is so if you are not healthy in mind.