Unit1Livingwell

Unit 1 Living well 单元教学目标单元教学目标 技能目标技能目标 Skill Goals Talk about disability and life of disabled people Express wishes i e not part of a mountain range To scale Mount Kilimanjaro is the ambition of many visitors to Africa Mount Kilimanjaro the highest mountain in Africa now attracts many thousands of walkers each year Step Listening T Do you think it easy to climb Kilimanjaro Ss Of course not T It is not easy to climb it It is more difficult for people with disabilities But Barry Minto made it And he became famous He is being interviewed on the radio Now let s listen to the interview Deal with Exx 1 4 on Pages 6 7 Play the recording several times if necessary Step Speaking Students are asked to work in pairs to practice offering congratulations and best wishes Show the useful expressions on Page 7 on the PowerPoint congratulate to tell someone that you are happy because they have achieved something or because something nice has happened to them He never even stopped to congratulate me congratulate somebody on something She congratulated me warmly on my exam results congratulate somebody for doing something All three are to be congratulated for doing so well congratulations a used when you want to congratulate someone I ve just passed my driving test Congratulations b words saying you are happy that someone has achieved something Give Tom my congratulations all the best used to express good wishes to someone for the future We d just like to wish him all the best in his new job all the best for All the best for the New Year Demonstrate a dialogue with a student A sample of offering wishes and congratulations B Congratulations on your graduation certificate A Thanks And I was told you ve invented a new computer game B Yes a company has decided to buy it from me A That s amazing Good luck to you B Thanks After students have finished the exercises in the textbook show the following situations on the PowerPoint Give the following two situations for students to practice offering congratulations and best wishes Situation 1 Your friend is going to take part in the 2005 CCTV Cup English Speaking Contest Situation 2 Your friend has won the first prize in the 2005 CCTV Cup English Speaking Contest Step Reading speaking and writing Show pictures of a cinema including inside and outside facilities Ask students to discuss what problems that people with disabilities sometimes have in a cinema Divide students into different groups They are given several minutes to discuss Each member is encouraged to think actively and participate in the discussion Make sure all students have their own opinions After the discussion T Now please stop discussing Alice is a warm hearted girl She cares for the disabled very much When she learned a new cinema is going to be built she wrote a letter to make suggestions Here is the letter that gives suggestions to an architect who is to design the new Bankstown cinema Let s find out what suggestions Alice gives Skimming Students can find the answers quickly because they are printed in the pink color Careful reading Help students to analyze the letter so that they will learn how to write a letter of suggestion T Now please read the text carefully and think about the questions in Ex3on Page 8 After students read the text carefully they will discuss the questions in Ex3 in groups Several minutes later check the answers with the whole class Suggested answers 1 To tell the reader the purpose of the letter 2 The writer has used numbers and a title in italics for each paragraph to organize the ideas and to make it easier for the reader to understand and remember the five suggestions 3 To finish the letter in a polite way and to put forward some reasons why the architect should consider the writer s suggestions T After you read Alice s suggestion letter do you know how to write a letter of suggestion Please discuss in groups Then we will work together to write a format of a suggestion letter After the discussion show the following on the PowerPoint or print it out A letter of suggestion A letter of suggestion normally has five parts 1 The heading This includes the address line by line with the last line being the date Skip a line after the heading 2 The greeting The greeting always ends with a comma The greeting should be formal beginning with the word dear 3 The body Also known as the main text Generally speaking the body includes three parts The first part usually the first paragraph tells the receiver that you are writing this letter to make suggestions on something and the main part tells clearly what your suggestions are The last part usually the last paragraph asks the receiver to consider your suggestions Don t forget to encourage the receiver to take your suggestions Skipping a line between paragraphs especially in typed or printed copy also helps the reader 4 The complimentary close This short expression is always a few words on a single line The complimentary close begins with a capital letter and ends with a comma 5 The signature line Type or print your name The handwritten signature goes above this line and below the close The signature line and the handwritten signature are indented to the same column as the close The signature should be written in blue or black ink Skip from one to three spaces two on a typewriter and type in the signature line the printed name of the person signing the letter Sign the name in the space between the close and the signature line starting at the left edge of the signature line Step Practice Deal with Ex 4 6 on Page 9 Ask students to work in groups and discuss how accessible their community is for people with disabilities Then discuss ways in which their community could be made more accessible for disabled people This discussion will lay a good foundation for the writing After the discussion students are asked to write a letter of suggestion to the architect of a new building to be constructed in their area In the letter they will suggest ways to make it more accessible for people with disabilities While writing the letter they should pay attention to the format of a letter If time is limited in class they can finish the letter out of class Step Homework Write a letter of suggestion to the architect A sample letter Dear Mr Smith I read in the newspaper that you are the architect who is to design the new supermarket in our suburb I am writing to ask if you have considered the matter of easy use of the supermarket by people in wheelchairs In particular I wonder if you have considered the following things 1 Width of aisles Can you please make sure that the aisles are wide enough to allow wheelchairs to pass through In some supermarkets the aisles are so narrow that a person in a wheelchair cannot move along them easily 2 Height of shelves Can you please design shelves that can be reached by people in wheelchairs In some supermarkets people in wheelchairs have to ask other shoopers to help them This takes away their independence 3 Lifts to other floors Lifts could be in a places that people in wheelchairs can get to easily It is very difficult if lifts are right at the back of the shop and people have to go up and down the shelves before they get to it 4 Car parks I hope you will leave some car spaces close to the front of the shop for people in wheelchairs It is very difficult if they have to park a long way away from the shop and wheel themselves over tough ground to the entrance Thank you for reading my letter I hope you will consider my suggestions Disabled people should have the same opportunities as able bodied people to shop independently and they should be able to do so with dignity I am sure many people will admire your supermarket if you design it with good access for disabled people The supermarket owners will also be happy as more people will be able to shop there Yours sincerely The Fourth Period Listening and speaking Teaching goals 教学目标 1 Target language 目标语言 功能句式 Patterns used to make introductions I d like to introduce you to I d like you to meet May I introduce Pleased to meet you It s nice to meet you 2 Ability goals 能力目标 Help students learn how guide dogs are trained and how they improve the quality of life for people who are blind visually impaired or with other special needs Enable students to use proper English as well as body language to make introductions 3 Learning ability goals 学能目标 By listening and reading students will learn guide dogs play an important role in the life of the disabled By practicing students will learn how to make an elegant introduction Teaching important and difficult points 教学重难点 How to make an elegant introduction Teaching methods 教学方法 Reading listening explaining and practicing Teaching aids 教具准备 Multi media computer Teaching procedures very weak can hardly pick up a pen School education one day Interests and hobbies reading and writing Ambition to write and publish a book Dream to live a better life Careful reading Deal with Ex1 on P52 Ask students to write a short text of 150 words about Zhang Yuncheng First they should read the text carefully and then pick out 7 8 important facts from the text in preparation for writing Writing Students are asked to write the opening 1 or 2 sentences of the text They should say something about who Zhang Yuncheng is how old he is what his disability is and what he has achieved When students have finished the opening sentences they will be asked to write the rest of the text Sample writing Although Zhang Yuncheng 25 is unable to walk or even get out of bed without help he has achieved his ambition to write a book Because of his disability Yuncheng went to school for only one day However when he was 12 years old he taught himself to write When he was 17 Yuncheng wrote to a newspaper about his life and his ambition to write a book Zhang Danuo an editor at the newspaper helped him by setting him writing assignments every week These assignments have now been turned into a book which many people have bought Yuncheng says that because his life will not be a long one he must do as much as he can within the time he has left Step Speaking If time allows deal with SPEAKING TASK on Page 52 Sample talk Hello my name is Liu Hui I have been deaf since I was 12 years old I go to a special school where some lessons are in sign language and some lessons are in spoken language which I must lip read As well as ordinary school subjects I also go to speech classes to make sure my speech remains easy to understand You see when you cant hear yourself speaking you can t correct your speech This is why it is hard to understand some deaf people My favourite subjects at school are art and sewing and I hope to go to design school when I am older so that I can become a fashion designer My life is very much the same as any other teenager I go out with both hearing and deaf friends My hearing friends just have to remember to touch my arm to get my attention and to make sure I can see their mouth when they talk I play table tennis and I m in the school swimming team I like watching foreign movies because they have Chinese subtitles which can read Being deaf doesn t stop me enjoying life There are a few things I can t do like talking with my friends on the telephone and some things that are more difficult for me than for non deaf people but there are still plenty of other things I can do Step Homework Finish PROJECT on Page 53 Sample project We are going to design a school where disabled students can get the same education as their fellow able bodied students The school will employ extra assistants and teachers who have been trained to work with disabled people The school will not discriminate against disabled pupils for a reason relating to their disability The school will promote the inclusion of disabled children in all aspects of school life The school will make an accessibility plan which shows how to improve accessibility for disabled pupils It will outline how the school will improve the physical environment increase access to the curriculum make improvements in the provision of information The school will also increase access for individual pupils by making reasonable adjustments These can be simple changes such as making sure that all lessons take place in ground floor classrooms for a class where one of the pupils uses a wheelchair or the school should have a lift wide enough for a wheelchair Improvements to the physical environment Changes to the physical environment that the school could make to increase access might include lighting and paint schemes to help visually impaired children lifts and ramps to help physically impaired children carpeting and acoustic tiling of classrooms to help hearing impaired pupils Improve the way information is delivered to disabled pupils Information that is normally provided in writing such as handouts timetables and textbooks can be made more accessible by providing it in Braille in large print on audio tape through sign language using a symbol system Increase access to the curriculum Adjustments that would help disabled children have better access to the curriculum might include changes to teaching and learning arrangements classroom organization timetabling support from other pupils Accessible technology Technology suited to disabled children s needs can help them learn faster and more easily This can increase their access to the curriculum Examples of technology that can help include software that connects words with pictures touch screen computers joysticks and trackerballs easy to use keyboards text to speech software Braille translation software 附附 件件 I 课文注释与疑难解析课文注释与疑难解析 1 but I am very outgoing and have learned to adapt to my disability 但是我很开朗乐观 学会了适应身体的残疾 adapt to to make suitable to or fit for a specific use or situation 使适应 使 适合 He adapted himself to the cold weather 他适应了寒冷的天气 He tried hard to adapt himself to the new conditions 他努力使自己适应新的情况 When he moved to Canada the children adapted to the change very well 他移居加拿大后孩子们很能适应变化 2 Every time I returned after an absence I felt stupid because I was behind the others 每次缺课后之后 我就觉得自己很笨 因为我比别人落后了 every time 每次 每当 引导时间状语从句 Every time I catch a cold I have pain in my back 我每次感冒背就痛 absence 不在 缺席 U C from She never speaks ill of anyone in his or her absence 她从不乘人不在时说别人 的坏话 He has many absences from class 他经常缺课 3 In particular I wonder if you have considered the following things 尤其是以下几点不知您是否考虑到了 particular adj 1 值得注意的 特别的 不寻常的 There was nothing in the letter of particular importance 这封信里没什么特别 重要的内容 The story happened on that particular day 故事就发生在那一天 The teacher showed particular concern for the disabled child 老师特别关心那 个残疾儿童 2 独特的 单独的 某一种的 Her particular way of smiling left a good impression on me 她特有的微笑给我留下了美好的印象 I don t like this particular scarf but the others are quite nice 我不喜欢的就是这一种围巾 其他的都很好 3 难以取悦的 考究的 挑剔的 about over wh I m not particular about my clothes I don t mind what I wear 我不怎么讲究我的衣服 我不在乎我穿什么 He is very particular about his food 他吃东西很讲究 挑剔 special especial specific particular exceptional extraordinary peculiar 这些形 容词均含 特殊的 特别的 之意 special 普通用词 指不同于一般 与众不同 着重事物的专门性 突出与 一般不同 especial 和 special 含义很接近 较正式 但侧重有特殊的意义或重要性 specific 着重指某种 某类事物具有的特殊或特定的属性 也可指专门提出 作特别考虑的事物 particular 侧重不同于普遍性的个性或特殊性 exceptional 指不同于一般 本身是特别的或异常的事物 extraordinary 语气比 exceptional 强 指极大地超过一般或正常情况 peculiar 强调指与众不同或独特的意思 古怪的 不寻常的 specially especially particularly 这些副词均可表示 特别地 之意 specially 着重为做某事而 专门地 特意地 相当于 on purpose especially 较多地用于正式文体 侧重超过其它全部 突出到 特别地 的 程度 相当于 in particular particularly 用来指同类中特别突出的一个 文化背景知识文化背景知识 Understanding the World s Differences There are over 750 million people in the world today with some type of disability Think about that number for a minute the population of the state of California is 30 million people The population of the United States is 250 million people The population of the United States would only equal one third of the number of disabled people in the world There are two categories of disabilities some disabilities are visible such as a person in a wheelchair But other disabilities are invisible like an individual with a learning disability Even though you can not see a person s disability does not mean they do not have one So when you are thinking of asking a person to carry something heavy remember if they say No don t think of them as not wanting to help This person might just have a bad case of asthma or a muscular disorder which limits them from carrying heavy objects I think that at one time or another everyone has been curious about some type of disability especially kids We have tried to understand these mysterious disabilities by pretend play or being curious and asking questions of people we see in wheelchairs Then our parents say Honey don t point SHHHHHH Why is it so hard to accept other s differences After all we are unique Some people feel it s the adults and others around us who teach us by example that prejudice and fear or lack of understanding on their part are the way in which we must all believe Even though as kids we try to understand and are curious enough to pretend what it s like to be different we also grow up in a society where differences mean fear rather than understanding Maybe if we attempted to simulate life or one of life s challenges as a person with a disability we can help ourselves and others to understand and respect these differences Let s join in speaking out to all those that lead our countries in promoting greater tolerance and understanding of all the world s differences by talking and developing respect and tolerance for all the world s people including those with disabilities Here are some interesting people with different disabilities We keep moving forward opening up new doors and doing new things because we re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths Walt Disney Hans Christian Anderson Famous Author Dyslexia Ludwig van Beethoven Famous Musician Deaf Alexander Graham Bell Great Inventor Lear