1、新课标人教版课件系列高中英语选修选修(模块）模块）7-7-1.8Reading and WritingWarming up BrailleBlinded by an accident in his early childhood,15 year old Louis Braille(1809-1852)invented a system of reading and writing by touch.A Braille cell consists of six raised dots.By arranging the dots in various combinations,64 differe
2、nt patterns cam be formed.Braille,a true alphabet,is read by moving the hand from left to right along each line.Readers average about 104-125 words per minute.Some can read 250 words by using both hands.Listening task 1.What country did Louis Braille come from?2.What disability did he have?3.What di
3、d books for the blind look like when Louie was a boy?4.What invention gave Louie the idea for his system?Year Age Event 1809 _1813 4 _1819 10 _1821 12 _1824 15 _1827 18 _1825 43 _Born Became completely blindSent to school in Pairs Heard a soldier talk about a code consisting of a raised system of do
4、ts Completed the Braille system of touch readingFirst Braille book publisheddiedListening textMY HERO:LOUIS BRAILLEPauls teacher has asked everyone in the class to prepare a talk about a great inventor.Listen to Pauls talk about Louis Braille.Good afternoon,everyone.Today I would like to tell you ab
5、out a man whose invention has benefited millions of people.His name is Louis Braille and it is mostly because of him that blind people are able to read and write and use computers.Louis was born in 1809,and when he was a little boy he had an accident while playing with his fathers shoemaking tools.B
6、y the time he was four years old,he was completely blind.At the age of 10,Louis was lucky enough to be sent to Paris to one of the first schools for the blind.At the school they had special books.They were written in ordinary French but the letters were raised up off the page so that blind people co
7、uld feel the words and so read with their fingers.But the letters had to be very big and the books were huge and difficult to read.They were also very expensive and the school library had only 14 of them.Louis,who was very clever and creative,thought that there must be a better way for blind people
8、to read.In 1821,when Louis was just 12 years old,a soldier came to visit the school.This man had invented a code for soldiers to send and receive messages in the dark.The idea was that soldiers could push a wire into a piece of paper and then read the message by feeling the raised dots on the other
9、side of the paper.However the code was too difficult for soldiers to learn.Louis took the soldiers idea and began experimenting to make the code simpler.By the time he was 15,he had invented a code that used only six dots.Over the next few years,he continued to improve his code.He also invented code
10、s for reading and writing mathematics and music.Then in 1827,the first book in braille was published.However,it took a long time before people realised what a wonderful invention it was.In fact,Louis did not live to see the success of his system because he died in 1852 when he was only 43 years old.
11、Today,the braille system has been adapted to almost every language in the world.Blind and weak-sighted people are able to read and write independently,thanks to Louise Brailles invention.从懂事那天起，我就面临只从懂事那天起，我就面临只 能活能活2828岁的无情命运。岁的无情命运。1010岁，岁，我只能举起一个枕头；我只能举起一个枕头；1212岁，岁，我只能拄着棍儿走路。我只能拄着棍儿走路。1414岁，岁，我走
12、不出院子；我走不出院子；1616岁，岁，完全不能走了，只能完全不能走了，只能 直直地站着。直直地站着。Reading and writing task假如我能行走三天假如我能行走三天 1818岁，岁，不能下地；不能下地；2020岁岁，胳膊举不过头顶。如今胳膊举不过头顶。如今,我拿不起我拿不起一杯水一杯水生活完全不能自理。行走对于生活完全不能自理。行走对于一个正常人来说是最为容易的事，而对于一个正常人来说是最为容易的事，而对于我来说比登天还难，所以，假如我能行走我来说比登天还难，所以，假如我能行走三天，我将万分珍惜三天中的每分每秒。三天，我将万分珍惜三天中的每分每秒。他因病从小到大只上他因病从小
13、到大只上过一天学。过一天学。23 23年只能天天在炕上坐着，眼中惟一的风年只能天天在炕上坐着，眼中惟一的风景是自家院子。景是自家院子。肌肉萎缩到不能自己穿肌肉萎缩到不能自己穿衣和洗脸，拿不起一本书，一杯水。衣和洗脸，拿不起一本书，一杯水。他叫他叫张云成张云成，家住黑龙江省五大连池风景，家住黑龙江省五大连池风景区青泉村。区青泉村。他写就了一部十余万字的书稿。他写就了一部十余万字的书稿。这是第一部由肌无力患者写就的、真实再这是第一部由肌无力患者写就的、真实再现肌无力患者生活以及现肌无力患者生活以及坚强的励志坚强的励志之作。之作。他说：我终于证明了一点，在这个世界他说：我终于证明了一点，在这个世界存
14、在过、奋争过存在过、奋争过 Scan the text and write a mini bio for Zhang Yuncheng.A Mini Bio Name:Sex:Health:Zhang YunchengMaledisabilities caused by a muscle disease;very weak,can hardly pick up a pen School education:Interests and hobbies:Ambition:Dream:one dayreading and writingto write and publish a bookto li
15、ve a better life Write a short text of 150 words about Zhang Yuncheng.Zhang Yuncheng,born in 1980 in Heilongjiang,is the writer of the best seller“If I can walk for three days”.He has a disease which affects out of his muscles in his body.He developed the disease at the age of 3.Because of his healt
16、h condition,he went to school for only one day.A sample of the writing So Yuncheng stayed at home and over the years,his condition got worse and worse.At 16,he could not walk at all.At 18,he could not get his bed.At 20,he could not raise his arms above his head.However,Yunchengs disease has not stop
17、ped him making most of his life.He taught himself to read and write.He loves reading and writing and wants to become a writer.With the help of Zhang Danuo,an editor,at the age of 25,Yuncheng achieved his ambition to write and publish a book.Homework 1.Speaking task on P52.2.Answer the questions on checking yourself on P53.
