1、Unit 1Living well Period 1Warming Up，Prereading and Reading .Teaching aims (教学目标)1Get students to learn the useful words and expressions in this unit. 2Help students to learn about disabilities and life of the disabled. 3Let students read the passage Martys Story to develop their reading ability. 4E
2、nable students to know that people with disabilities can also live well. 5Help them understand more about how challenging life can be for the disabled. . Teaching important and difficult points (教学重难点) 1. Get students inspired by positive stories of the people with disabilities. 2Develop students re
3、ading ability. 3Help students understand the difficulties the disabled have to overcome. . Teaching methods (教学方法) 1Taskbased teaching and learning. 2Cooperative learning. . Teaching aids (教学工具)Computer Multi-media. Teaching procedures (教学过程) Step 1Revision Review some important words and expression
4、s.Step 2 Warming up1Different types of disabilities. How many different types of disabilities do you kow? ( show some pictures) blind lame deaf-mute paralytic handless armless legless hunchbacked2. A guessing gameWho is he/ she? ( Each team can get one point if any of your team can guess the great d
5、isabled people!) Steven Hawking ( physicist; unable to speak or move; Black holes theory; his pictures) Beethoven ( famous musician; deaf; Germany; composed Symphony of Fate; his pictures) Helen Keller ( United Kingdom; blind, deaf and dumb; learn to read Braille盲文; female educator and writer; her p
6、ictures) Vincent van Gogh ( impressionist paiter; epilepsy癫痫症; his pictures) Zhang Haidi ( Chinese; famous female writer and translator; paralytic; her picture)3. Discussion What can you learn from these disabled? (show pictures)Suggested answer: They are broken in body but firm in spirit.(身残志坚)Step
7、 3Pre-reading Ask students to read the short paragraph in Pre-reading carefully and find out the purpose of the website “Family Village” Suggested answers： 1To give ordinary young people with a disability a chance to share their stories with others. 2To inspire other disabled people. 3To get non-dis
8、abled people to understand more about the challenging life the disabled people lead. Step 4Reading 1Listen and answerListen to the radio and try to answer the two qustions.Q1: Whats wrong with Marty?Q2: How is his life now?Suggested answers： He has a muscle disease.He has a good and busy life now .2
9、. Skimming Give students 5 minutes, ask them to read the passage fast to sum up the main idea of each paragraph. Matching exercises:Paragraph 1 Marty met a lot of difficulties at school.Paragraph 2 How his life has become easier.Paragraph 3 An introduction to Marty and his muscle disease.Paragraph 4
10、 The advantages of his disease.Paragraph 5 How his disease developed.Suggested answers： Paragraph 1 Marty met a lot of difficulties at school.Paragraph 2 How his life has become easier.Paragraph 3 An introduction to Marty and his muscle disease.Paragraph 4 The advantages of his disease.Paragraph 5 H
11、ow his disease developed.2Scanning for detailed information Ask students to read the passage carefully to locate the detailed information. (1)First ask students to read paragraph 1 and complete the chart below. Disease: makes him very weak. Difficulties: and cant or stairs as quickly as other people
12、. Motto: Live one day . What does “live one day at a time” mean?Suggested answers： A muscle disease; clumsy; run; climb; at a time. Live a rich and full life every day.(2)Next read paragraphs 2 &3 and choose the best answer. Why did the doctors cut out a piece of muscle from Martys leg? ABecause the
13、y could cure the disease by cutting it out. BBecause they wanted to use it as a specimen(标本) CBecause they would transplant(移植) the new muscle. DBecause they wanted to find out the cause of the disease. Key：D (3)Read paragraph 4 and answer the following questions： What is Martys ambition? What is Ma
14、rtys achievement? What is Martys hobby? Suggested answers： Martys ambition is to work for a firm that develops computer software when he grows up. Marty invented a computer football game and a big company hasdecided to buy it. As well as going to the movies and football matches with his friends，he s
15、pends a lot of time with his pets.(4)Ask students to find Martys advice in paragraph 5. Suggested answers： Dont feel sorry for them. Dont make fun of them. Dont ignore them. Accept them for who they are. Encourage them to live as rich and full a life as you do.Step 5Summary (1) We can see that Marty
16、 is a/an _ person.Suggested answers：optimistic brave positive active independent strong-minded(2)Fill in the blanksMarty Fielding suffered from muscle _ when he was 10, which sometimes made him _ and drop things or bump into furniture. The doctors dont know exactly what is wrong with him, so they do
17、nt know _ to make him better. But he has to learn to _ to his disability. When some people cannot accept him for who he is, he doesnt get _ . He just _ them.All _all, he has a good life. His _is to work in the computer _when he grows up. He has a very happy life and doesnt have time to sit around _
18、sorry for himself. He is _to have found many things he can do really well.In many ways, his disability has made him grow stronger and more _. He has to work hard to live a _ life, but it has been _ it. From him, we can learn more: Just having a _ doesnt mean your life is not _.So dont feel sorry for
19、 the _ or make _ of them and dont ignore them either. Just accept them for who they are, and give them _to live as rich and full a life _ you do.Suggested answers：disease; clumsy; how; adapt; annoyed; ignores; in; ambition; industry; feeling; happy; independent; normal; worth; disability; satisfying
20、; disabled; fun; encouragement; asStep 6Discussion Do you think disabled people can live a happy life as normal people now?For: Disabled people can live a happy life as normal people now.Against: Disabled people may not live a happy life as normal people now.Step 7Homework 1Retell Martys Story. 2Surf the Internet to learn more about the life of disabled people.5 / 5
