(共27张PPT)
Unit 2
Three Days to See
Read and answer:
What percentage of population in the US has a disability
What percentage of population in the US has mobility disabilities\ cognitive disabilities\ vision disabilities
What special assistance can people with disabilities make use of in their daily lives
People with limited mobility
problems could use
wheelchairs, walking sticks,
handrails... People who have
reduced vision could use
special pavements for the
blind, Braille signs...
If you had to give up one of the 5 senses, which would you choose
Background information
Helen Keller (1880-1968 ) was an American writer, lecturer and social activist. She was born with the ability to see and hear. Aged just 19 months old, she lost her hearing and sight as the result of an illness. With the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, she overcame her disabilities and went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
On the first day, she would want to see the kind people who have helped her 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.
On the second day, she would like to see a display of the progress of civilisation. She would go to the museums and spend the evening at a theater or at the movies.
On the third day, she would again greet the dawn anxious to discover new delights, new revelations of beauty. She would spend the third day observing people in their day-to-day life.
Read and find out what the author would do if she could see.
Choose the author's purpose in writing the passage and give your reasons.
1 To help 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.
I have often thought it ________ be a blessing if each human being ________________(strike) blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more ______________ (appreciate) _______ sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.
_____________(有时)I have tested my seeing friends to discover what they see. Recently, I asked a friend _____ had just returned from a long walk in the woods what she _______________(observe). “Nothing _______ particular,”she replied.
would
were stricken
appreciative
of
Now and then
who
had observed
in
How was ________ possible, I asked myself, _____ walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing ________________ (值得注意) I _______ cannot see find hundreds of things to interest me _______________(仅仅通过触摸) . If I can get so much pleasure from touch, how much more beauty must_____________(reveal) by sight And I have imagined what I _______ most like to see if I _____________(give) the use of my eyes, ________ for just three days.
it
to
worthy of note
who
through mere touch
be revealed
should
were given
say
______ the first day, I _______ want to see the people ________ kindness and gentleness and _______________(companion) have made my life _____________(值得活). I do not know what ______ is to see into the heart of a friend __________ that“window of the soul”, the eye, I can only“see”__________ my fingertips the outline of a face. I should like to see the books ______ have been read to me, and _______have revealed to me the deepest channels of human life and the human spirit. In the afternoon I should take a long walk in the woods and __________(make drunk,excite) my eyes on the beauties of the world of nature. That night, I should not be able to sleep.
On
should
whose
companionship
worth living
it
through
through
which
which
intoxicate
On my second day, I should like to see the pageant of man's progress, and I should go to the museums, I should try to ____________(探究)the soul of man through his art. The things I knew through touch I should now see. The evening of my second day I should spend at a theatre or at the movies.
The following morning, I should again _______________________ (迎接黎明), anxious __________________(discover) new delights, new ________________(reveal) of beauty. Today I shall spend in the _____________(ordinary) world, __________ the haunts of men ___________(go) about the business of life.
probe into
greet the dawn
to discover
revelations
workaday
amid
going
______ midnight the permanent night would close in on me again. _______ when darkness had again descended _____ me should I realize how much I had left __________(see).
I who ______ blind can give one hint to those _______ see: Use your eyes _________ tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can ____________(apply) ______ the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, ______ you would be stricken deaf tomorrow.
At
Only
upon
unseen
am
who
as if
be applied
to
as if
Only when darkness had again descended upon me should I realize how much I had left unseen.
“only+状语”位于句首,其后用部分倒装
到那时他才意识到他错了。
Only then did he realize that he was wrong.
你只有用这种方法才能把它做好。
Only in this way can you do it well.
Touch each object you want to touch _______ tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, ______ tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. But _____ all the senses, I am sure that sight must be the most ___________ (delight).
(Excerpts from“Three Days to See”by Helen Keller)
as if
as if
of
delightful
失明的我可以给那些看得见的人们一个提示——对那些能够充分利用天赋视觉的人们一个忠告:善用你的眼睛吧,犹如明天你将遭到失明的灾难。同样的方法也可以应用于其它感官。聆听乐曲的妙音,鸟儿的歌唱,管弦乐队的雄浑而铿锵有力的曲调吧,犹如明天你将遭到耳聋的厄运。抚摸每一件你想要抚摸的物品吧,犹如明天你的触觉将会衰退。嗅闻所有鲜花的芳香,品尝每一口佳肴吧,犹如明天你再不能嗅闻品尝。充分利用每一个感官,通过自然给予你的几种接触手段,为世界向你显示的所有愉快而美好的细节而自豪吧!不过,在所有感官中,我相信,视觉一定是最令人赏心悦目的。
Read the sentences from the passage and answer the questions.
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail.
1 What sentence structure is used repeatedly
What figure of speech is it
2 How does this technique help to express
the author’s emotions
What you see is what you get.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . ."
1 What sentence structure is used repeatedly What figure of speech is it
A similar structure is used repeatedly.
Namely, “Use... as if... Hear... as if... Touch... as if...". It's parallelism.
2 How does this technique help to express the author’s emotions
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 tool for persuasion.
Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.
黑暗使人更加珍惜视力;静默能教人享受声音的美妙。
appreciative adj. grateful for sth. 感激的
appreciate v. 感激、赏识
appreciation n. 欣赏、感激
I would _________ any comments you might have.
He was sincerely __________ of their support.
Max has no ___________ of the finer things in life.
appreciate
appreciative
appreciation
How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worthy of note
我自问,在林子里散步一小时之久,怎么可能没看到任何值得注意的东西呢?
他觉得这是一个值得注意的现象。
He thinks it is a phenomenon _____________.
worthy of note: 值得注意的
worthy of note
The following morning, I should again greet the dawn, anxious to discover new delights, new revelations of beauty.
第三天清晨,我要再次迎接黎明,迫切地去探索更多愉悦,发现更多美好。
delight: n. sth that makes you feel very happy or satisfied
使人高兴的事
v. 使…… (非常) 欢喜,使……高兴
delighted: adj.感到欢喜的、高兴的
delightful: adj.令人愉快的、可喜的
She won the game easily, to the ________ of all her fans.
delight
Today I shall spend in the workaday world, amid the haunts of men going about the business of life.
今天我要过平凡的生活,到那些为生活忙碌的人常去的地方。
特里处理经营商店的日常琐事。
Terry deals with the ________ details of running a store.
workaday: adj.ordinary or common, and not special or unusual 平凡的,平淡的
workaday
go about: to do something that you usually do 从事;着手做;四处走动;传开
天气转好,人们四处走动的更多了。
People are going about more now that the weather's better.
他将全心全意地从事这项工作。
He will go about this work with his whole heart.
村民们像往常一样忙着自己的事。
The villagers were going about their business as usual.
An midnight the permanent night would close in on me again.
到了午夜,永夜将再次把我笼罩。
她因事故而遭受永久性的脑损伤。
She suffered __________ brain damage as a
result of the accident.
敌人的士兵从四面八方包围了他们。
Enermy soldiers __________ them from all sides.
permanent: adj.continuing to exist for a long time or for all the time in the future 长久的,永久的
close in on: to move closer to sb. or sth., especially in order to attack them 逼近,围住
permanent
closed in on
Only when darkness had again descended upon me should I realize how much I had left unseen.
“only+状语”位于句首,其后用部分倒装
到那时他才意识到他错了。
Only then did he realize that he was wrong.
你只有用这种方法才能把它做好。
Only in this way can you do it well.
be stricken blind and deaf
make him more appreciative of sight
now and then/occassionally/from time to time
return from a long walk in the woods
be worthy of note
be revealed by
make my life worth living
see into the heart of a friend
window of the soul
probe into the soul of man
失明/失聪
让他更感激光明
有时
在树林里散步许久回来
值得注意
由……揭露
让我的生命变得有价值
看透朋友的内心
心灵的窗户
探究人类的灵魂
greet the dawn
discover new delights
in the workaday world
night closes in on me
darkness descends upon me
be applied to
persuade sb to do
interact with
迎接黎明
探索新的快乐
平凡的生活
夜幕把我笼罩
黑暗降临
被应用于
劝说
和...互动