Teaching Plan For Unit 17 Reading
一、I Teaching Aims:
1.Learn and master the following words and expressions: get around(=get about),fair,guidance,gifted,assist,cooperate,recognition,sympathy,encouragement,productive,visual,impair,motivate,disappointing,adjust to,get used to
2.Train the students’ reading ability.
II Teaching Important Points:
1.Improve the students’ reading ability.
2.Enable the students to understand the text better.
3.How to get the students to master the useful expressions.
III Teaching Difficult Points:
Master the following sentence structures:
1.…studying together with their disabled classmates is both challenging and rewarding. Living with disability is frustrating and challenging.
2.I am and get used to the fact that while I may not be…
IV Teaching Methods:
1.Discussion to help the students know something about the disabled.
2.Fast reading to get the general idea of the text.
3.Questioning-and-answering activity to help the students go through the whole passage.
4.Pair work or individual work to make every student work in class.
V Teaching Aids:
1.a tape recorder
2.a multimedia
二、Teaching Procedures:
CStep Ⅰ Greetings and Revision
(Greet the whole class as usual.)
T: Yesterday we learned what difficulties and dangers the disabled might face and how to help them in our daily life. Imagine you are disabled. Who’d like to describe the situation(If you were blind/deaf etc.)and tell us how you would deal with them.
S: I’ll try.…
(All the others listen carefully.)
T: Well done. No matter what difficulties he may meet with, we all hope he can enjoy himself.
CStep Ⅱ Lead-in and Pre-reading
T: Yeah. We know people with disabilities may have lots of difficulties in their lives, but many of them are determined. They can overcome any difficulty. Please look at the three questions on the screen and discuss them in groups.
(Teacher gives students five minutes to discuss and collects their answers.)
1.Do you know anyone who is disabled?
How does he or she deal with the disability?
2.Do you know of any famous people who are disabled? What do they do?
3.Should disabled students be allowed to go to college? Should they get any extra help? Why or why not?
Suggested answers:
1.Yes.I know a person with disability. He has learnt to do many things without help. He can take care of himself at home, but getting around in the city in a wheelchair is often frustrated. He loves reading stories of young disabled people who have overcome great difficulties.
2.Yes,I do. Beethoven was a great musician, Helen Keller was a great American writer, and Zhang Haidi is also a writer.
3.Yes,they should. Because there are many gifted disabled students, they can make a contribution to the society.
They should get some extra help in their everyday activities.
No, they shouldn’t. Because they need recognition, more than sympathy and help.
Step III Reading Tasks:
1. Choose the best answers according to the text
1).The disabled ,in the author’s opinion , need all EXCEPT________.
A. recognition B. sympathy and help
C. discrimination D. inspiration and encouragement
2). The articles in Literature of Chinese Blind Children are often about _______.
A. ordinary people B. famous writers C. science and technology D. Disabled people
3). In order to help the disabled ,we should ________.
A. do everything for them B. give them money, food and clothing
C. Help them understand their valuable role in society
D. ;earn how to teach them knowledge
4). The disabled people mentioned in the text are all _________.
A. hardworking and clever B. lazy and poor
C. optimistic (乐观）and pessimistic(悲观） D. foolish and doing nothing at all
5). We can infer from the text that ___________.
A. The disabled are useless B. We should look down upon the disabled
C. The disabled can do something as well as or better than normal people if they are helped
D. There is no opportunity for the disabled to make a contribution to society
2. Answer the following questions.
1).What’s the trouble of Zhong Xiaowen?
2).How does she get around?
3).What’s the teachers’ aim in the special college?
4).What do the articles in Literature of Chinese Blind Children talk about?
5).How does Zijie like the magazine?
Suggested answers:
1.Xiaowen was born without the ability to use her legs and she has no feeling below the waist.
2.She uses a wheelchair to get around.
3.Their aim is to help disabled students understand that they can play a valuable role within society.
4.The articles are often about disabled people who have overcome challenges and difficulties and learnt to live a meaningful and productive life.
5.He loves the magazine very much.He thinks it is very important for them to know that someone far away is also struggling as they are.
Step III Post- reading
Questions in text
Step IV language points in the text
1. award & reward
award n. 奖，奖品，奖金；赔偿费
This year the award for best actress went to a foreigner.今年的最佳女主角奖颁给了一位外国人
Those who were injured in the explosion were given an award of $6000.那些在爆炸事故中受伤的人被裁定给予6000美元的赔偿费
She received a bike as an award. 他得到了一辆自行车作为奖品。
Reward n. 酬金、报偿、报答
I don’t expect anything in reward; I did it because I enjoyed it. 我不指望得到什么报答，我做这件事只是因为我喜欢干。
一般有功劳功绩才能得到award; 而reward则通常指对所提供的服务或所做的好事给予的酬劳或报答
v. award 判给、授予、颁发 指经过评审鉴定之后颁奖给某人或裁定判给谁什么。
reward 酬报、报答、回报 指对所提供的服务或所做的好事给予的酬劳或报答。
How can I __________ your kindness. reward
He __________ the boy with ten pounds for bringing back the lost dog. rewarded
The chairman _________ LiNing the highest prize. awarded
The referee [7refE5ri:] ________ a free kick. 裁判员裁定罚一个任意球。 awarded
present award 颁奖 win/ gain/ obtain/ receive a award for ….得…的奖
2. launch vt. 使(船)下水, 掷(标枪等), 发射(导弹、火箭等), 开办, 发动, 发起
①launch a man-made satellite
②launch a new enterprise(企业, 事业, 计划, 事业心)
③launch attack 发起攻击
4) launch a ship 使船下水 / launch one’s son into the world 把儿子送到社会上
3. get around 四处走动；消息传开；回避，绕过困难
Bad news gets round quickly.
Some people try to get round the tax laws. 有人想逃避税法
A little girl usually gets round her father. 小女孩往往会逃避自己的父亲
4. while
Their country has plenty of oil, while ours has none. but
While I was out, my son began to make trouble. when
While I admit his good points, I can see his bad ones. though
While there is life, there is hope. So long as/ since
While I like the colour of the hat, I don’t like its shape. though
Some people waste food while others haven’t enough. But
The WTO can not live up to its name ________ it does not include a country that is home to one fifth of mankind.
A as long as B while C if D even though
While/ as long as 只要强调唯一条件，此处欠妥
5. a matter of 大约， 实际上
It is a matter of ten li from here to there.
A matter of course 理所当然的事
A matter of minutes 仅仅几分钟就
Step Ⅵ Summary and Homework
T: Today we have learned the passage-Disabled? Not me! From the success of the disabled student-Zhong Xiaowen,we learn something important. There is nothing difficult in the world if you stick to it. When you meet with difficulty in your life and study, please don’t lose heart. On the other hand, we should help the students to know how to help the disabled in our daily life.
And we also learn some phrases. After class, you should work hard and master them.
高考真题：
(2004上海春)We need to consider what__________we will be using for language training.
A.abilities B.appliances
C.facilities D.qualities
简析：选C。进行语言训练，就需要有设施或设备，因此选facilities(设施、设备)，其他选项不合适。
(2004上海春)Words__________me when I wanted to express my thanks to him for having saved my son from the burning house.
A.failed B.left
C.discouraged D.disappointed
简析：选A。表示“不知说什么来表达自己的想法”时，常用句型“words fail sb.”来表达。根据本题句意，应选A。