Teaching Plan for “Unit17 Disability”
Class: _____ Room: _____ Time: ______
Contents: Disabled Not me!
Teaching goals:
1. Target language:
Fair guidance gifted assist sympathy adjust get around
2. Ability goals:
I. Enable students to understand the text better.
II. Enable students to describe some the possible difficulties that the disabled have to overcome.
III. Enable students to know what still waits for us to do for the disabled.
3. The goals of moral education:
i. Enable students to know that they should respect the disabled and help them warmly, because the disabled can do something as well as or better than normal people if they are helped.
ii. Enable students to get something from Zhong Xiaowen and other disabled people’s success. That is, there is nothing difficult in the world, if you stick to it.
Teaching important points:
1. Help students to describe the difficulties the disabled are faced with with the target language in this unit.
2. Help students to understand the text better.
Teaching difficult points:
1. How to help students to describe the difficulties and the needs of the disabled.
2. How to help students achieve the goals of moral education.
Teaching methods:
Skipping Task-based questions Interview
Teaching aids:
Tape-recorder computer blackboard
Teaching procedures:
Step1: Lead-in (4 minutes)
Lead the text in by the introduction of the program Kwan-yin of the
1,000 Hands.
T: Did you see the program Kwan-yin of the 1,000 Hands.
Ss: Yes/ No.
T: If no, it doesn’t matter. Now let’s enjoy it together. Before enjoying it,
Make sure what your tasks are:
Task1: Who is the lead actress
___Tai Lihua.
Task2: How do you like the program
____Excellent./Beautiful.
(Play the program and deal with the tasks)
T: Can you say something about the program
Ss: Deaf-mute dancers, in CCTV’s 2005 Spring Festival Gala, performed
it.
T: Right. You know, they are deaf-mute. How can they catch the rhythm
of the music
Ss: To help the dancers catch the rhythm of the music, sign language
coaches were at the four corners of the stage. So they performed so
well.
T: In a way, we can say: Despite the disability, they can perform as well
as or even better than the normal people if they are helped. Do you
agree.
Ss: Yes.
T: So we can say : Disabled Not them! I have found another person says:
Disabled Not me! Ok. Please open your books and turn to P51. Today
We are going to learn the passage: Disabled Not me! (write it on the
Bb.)
Step2. Skipping
Skip the text and then complete the task on the screen/Bb.
Task1: Skip the text, find 4 or 5 high frequency words, then according to the high frequency words and the title, guess the main idea of the whole text,
High frequency words: Zhong Xiaowen disabled difficulty life
Main idea: The disabled like Zhong Xiaowen have some difficulties to live a normal life, but they try their best to live a meaningful and
productive life.
Step3. Fast reading
Read the text quickly. Then complete the tasks on the sceen/Bb.
Task1: Answer the following QS:
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. Who started the magazine Literature of Chinese Blind Children
5. How does Zijie like the magazine
Keys:
1. Xiaowen was born without the ability to use her legs and she has
no feeling below her waist.
2. By using a wheelchair.
3. To help disabled students understand that they can play a valuable role without society.
4. Xu Bailun.
5. “It is very important for us to know that someone also struggling as we are.
Task2: Choose the best answers to the QS.
1. The disabled, the author’s opinion, need all EXCEPT_____.
A. recognition B. sympathy and help
C. discrimination D. inspiration and encouragement
2. The article 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 some money, food and clothing
C. help them understand their valuable role in society
D. learn 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 sth 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
Step4. Listening
Listen to the tape, then try to get more information about the text and
pay attention to your pronunciation, the fill in the blanks in the short passage.
Zhong
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