1、Onwards&upwardsOnwards&upwardsB4U2B4U2Developing ideasActivity 1 1 Are the numbers different from what you expected?In what way?2 What special assistance can people with disabilities make use of in thier daily lives?People with limited mobility problems could usewheelchairs,walking sticks,handrails.
2、People who have reduced vision could usespecial pavements for the blind,Braille signs.Helen Keller(1880 1968)was an American writer,lecturer and social activist.Aged just 19 months old,she became ill and lost both her hearing and sight.With the help of her teacher,Anne Sullivan,she overcame her disa
3、bilities and went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.Background Information 1.Read the passage and find out what the author would do if she could see.the first day the second day the third dayActivity 2Activity 2the first dayOn the first day,she would want to see the kind people who have helped he
4、r and accompanied her through life.Then she would like to see the books which have opened her mind.In the afternoon,she would take a long walk in the woods and appreciate the beauty of nature.the second day On the second day,she would like to see a display of the progress of civilisation.She would g
5、o to the museums and spend the evening at a theater or at the movies.Activity 2 the third dayOn the third day,she would again greet the dawn,anxious to discover new delights,new revelations of beauty.She would spend the thirdday observing people in their day-to-day life.Activity 2Activity 31 To help
6、 readers understand what it is like to be blind.2 To make readers without disabilities appreciate what they have.3 To persuade readers to care about the blind.Choose the authors purpose and give your reasons.At the start of the passage,the author said it would be a blessing if each human being were
7、stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life.Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight;silence would teach him the joys of sound.1.What are the main wishes of the author?Give an example.think&The author would like to be able to see for three days.She woul
8、d like to be able to see the people who have helped her and with whom she spends her time.She would like to see the books which have been read to her.Think&Sharethink&Think&Share2.Do you know of any stories about people with disabilities?Share one with the class.3.How should we interact with people
9、with disabilities?4.What qualities do both reading passages in this unit convey?Facing difficulties and setbacks in life with a positive attitude.Activity 4 Activity 4 Read the sentences and answer the questions.1.What sentence structure is used repeatedly?What figure of speech is?2.How does this te
10、chnique help to express the authors emtions?“Use.as if.Hear.as if.Touch.as if.”.It is parallelism(排比修辞排比修辞).The use of parallelism in speech or writing allows speakers or writers to maintain a consistency within their work and creates a balanced flow of ideas.Moreover,parallelism can be used as a to
11、ol for persuasion.2.How does this technique help to express the authors emtions?Activity 4 Activity 4 Parallelism（排比修辞）as a literary device is the use of expressions,clauses or sentences that are similar in their structure.It can make the content more rhythmic(有节奏的),engaging and easier to remember.I
12、t is commonly used in literary works and speeches.Learning to learnLearning to learnA Tale of Two Cities -Charles DickensActivity 5 Activity 5 Give a talk.Orgnise your talk and make notes.Do you agree?Activity 6Activity 6Read the passage and answer the questions.1.Why did the author go to the“dark r
13、estaurant”?Because the author wanted to understand the experience of being blind,thinking eating would be the most difficult activity.Activity 6Activity 6Read the passage and answer the questions.2.What difficulties did the author have during the meal?1)The author knocked over glasses and dropped fo
14、od.2)The author ate much more slowly,trying to guess what was being eaten.3)Pouring water was very difficult.Activity 6Activity 6Read the passage and answer the questions.2.What difficulties did the author have during the meal?4)After failing to pick up any food with a fork for five minutes,the auth
15、or decided to use hands,but stuck one hand into a bowl of warm,thick soup.5)Even using a spoon,most of the soup ended up on the authors shirt.Activity 6Activity 6Read the passage and answer the questions.3.How did the author feel after finishing the meal?The author left the restaurant feeling hungry
16、,though much more aware of the challenges that blind people face.Activities 7-8Activities 7-8Experience the lives of the disabled.Write a short passage to describe your experience.Setting the SceneDescribe the time,place.Say what the main character was doing.Development of the experienceDescribe the
17、 main actions.ConclusionDescribe the scene at the end andthe main characters feelings.Part 3Part 1 Part 2LayoutLayout1.Set the scene:Today/One Saturday afternoon,I/We.2.Describe the beginning and development of the experience:At first,I/We Then,3.Describe the end and the feeling:In the end,I/We Writ
18、e the experience in three paragraphs.Make an outlinePost-writing:Reference textToday in class,we played a game called“the blind traveller”,in which one has to walk through some barriers with their eyes blindfolded.It is through this experience that I started to realise how inconvenient life could be
19、 for a blind person.Not being able to see where I was going,I kept going off the path and Post-writing:Reference textturning in the wrong direction.Whats more,without the ability to accurately locate the position of the barriers,I often fell over them,even though I was moving at an extremely slow sp
20、eed.And a loss of balance increased the difficulty of this short journey.After falling over more than ten times,I finally reachedmy destination on hands and knees.Without sight,I couldnt even complete this short journey of no more than 15 metres smoothly,let alone overcome all the other various difficulties in daily life.I do realise that life must be much more challenging for the blind people.Post-writing:Reference textHomework
