高二英语选修七教案
Unit 1 Living well
Period 1 Word study &Warming up
Teaching Aims:
1. To present the topic of this unit —— disabilities
2. To heighten students’ awareness of the challenges facing people with disabilities. 3. To learn some words and useful expressions in order to express their own feelings. 4. To promote the notion that students with disabilities have similar wishes and desires to non-disabled students. Teaching Important Points:
How to improve the students’ speaking ability. Teaching Difficult Points:
How to make the students gain enough information to express themselves. Teaching Methods:
1. Pair work or group work to make every student join in the class activities 2. Discussion to make every student express himself freely. Teaching aids:
CAI equipment with a Multi-media classroom and other normal teaching tools. Teaching Procedure: StepⅠGreetings StepⅡWord study
Learn the words and expressions. StepⅢPresentation
1. Show some pictures of the performance Qian Shou Guan Yin. Do you know them? Let’s see their performance. 2. What do the following words mean?
disabled: unable to use a certain part of one’s body disability: the state of being disabled disabled people : people with disability
( Disabled people are those who can’t use a certain part of the body . They can’t see, hear, speak, walk or behave properly.)
3. How many different types of disabilities do you know? A .physical disability
deafness, dumb/mute, blindness, lame(跛足的), near-sighted, six fingers, color blindness, paralyzation( 瘫痪）hunchback, dwarf, armless, legless, handless… B .mental disability
depression, learning difficulty, brain injury, phobias (恐惧症) StepⅣ Warming up 1. Do you know?
1).Do you know anyone who is disabled around you? How does he or she deal with the disabilities?
2).Do you know any famous people who are disabled? What do they do? (Show some pictures of some famous people who are disabled.)
Steven Hawking (1942— , England), speech impaired, can only move one of his fingers, Physicist / mathematician, made a research in the beginning of space, matter and time.In spite of his brain disease, he decides to continue with his research and
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writing, and his famous book “On History of Time” used to be a best seller.
Helen Keller(1882—1968, United Kingdom), blind and dumb, learn to read Braille (盲文), to speak and write .Finished the studies in Radcliff College. Became famous writer---“Three days To See.”
Franklin Roosevelt (1882--- 1945, America) a disease in legs and had to use wheel chair, the 32nd, 33rd and 34th president, and was selected the 35th a year before he died. The only one who was selected the president four times in American history. Beethoven (1770 – 1827, Germany) Deaf, famous musician Vincent Van Gogh(凡高), Epilepsy(癫痫症), painter Zhang Haidi: writer, paralytic, in a wheelchair
Hu yizhou (1978---, China) some problems in his brain. His IQ is only 30. A famous conductor (指挥家）in the Chinese Disabled Art Group
Sanglan（桑兰）(1981 --, China.),a famous gymnast (体操运动员).She hurt herself seriously in a competition and can’t stand. She helped to bid 2008 Olympic Games and helped organize the Paralympics（残疾人运动会）
Deng Pufang: son of Deng Xiaoping, paralytic, wheelchair, chairman of the Chinese Disabled Union.
2. Read the introduction about the students. The students in the pictures each have a disability. With a partner, discuss what their disability might be. The following list might help you.
mental disability learning difficulty hearing problem difficulty with eye sight brain injury loss of an arm or leg severe illness deafness walking difficulty Rada is mentally disabled. Barry is vision impaired.
Sally was born with spinal bifida (脊柱裂）and relies on a wheel chair to get around Gao Qiang has diabetes (糖尿病）. StepⅤDiscussion
What do you learn from these disabled?
They’re broken in body but firm in spirit. （身残志坚） StepⅥ Homework
1. Try to talk to disabled people and know more about them. 2. Preview “Marty’s story”.
Period 2 Reading
Teaching goals 1. Target language: a. 重点词汇和短语
eyesight, drum, movie, ambition, disabled, beneficial, in other words, clumsy, motto, adapt, motto, microscope, out of breath, absence, stupid, fellow, annoyed, all in all, industry, tank, independent, make fun of, encouragement b. 重点句型
1. I have to adapt to my disability. 2. All in all, I have a good life.
3. Every time after a long absence from school, I feel really stupid because I am a bit
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behind the others.
4. Just accept them for whom they are and give them encouragement to live as rich and full a life as you do. 2. Ability goals
Help students to learn about disabilities and life of the disabled. Enable students to realize people with disabilities can also live well 3. Learning ability goals
By talking about disabilities and life of the disabled, students will learn some positive stories of the disabled. This will help students understand more about how challenging life can be for the disabled. Teaching important points
How positive stories about the people with disabilities inspire others. Teaching difficult points
How to help student understand the difficulties the disable have to overcome. Teaching methods
Discussing, explaining, reading and practising Teaching aids
Multimedia computer Teaching procedures Step I Leading in
Deal with Warming up. Play some videos of people with disabilities for students to watch. Then ask them to discuss what the disabilities are and what difficulties they have to overcome in daily life. T: Good morning /afternoon, class!
Ss: Good morning/ afternoon, Mr. /Miss…
T: In this class we are going to learn about disabilities and the life of the disabled. First let’s watch some short videos. Then discuss in groups what the disabilities are and what difficulties they have to overcome in daily life.
After the discussion, Teacher will present the four pictures on Page 1 to students. T: Quite right. Disabilities can be visible or invisible. People with invisible
disabilities don’t look disabled. Depression, sleep disorders and learning difficulty are invisible disabilities. No matter what disability one has, life is not easy. They have many difficulties to overcome, but please keep in mind they can also live well, even achieve great success. Now look at the pictures, how do they look? Ss: They look happy and satisfied. They are smiling.
T: Yes, they are. But all of them are disabled. Can you guess what their disability might be? S1: … S2: … ……
T: OK, please remember there are many disabled people in the world. They are part of the world. They also have rights to enjoy life. Would you like to learn more about them and try to do something for them? Here is a website “Family village”. From here we can learn some positive stories about the disabled. Step II Pre-reading
Ask students to read the pre-reading carefully and find out the purpose of the website. Then show the suggested answer on the PowerPoint. Suggest answer:
1. To give ordinary young people with a disability the chance to share their stories with others.
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