课件25张PPT。Lesson Three
Life Stories Helen Keller
writer & educator1. We can do anything we want
to do if we stick to it long enough.
Although the world is full of
suffering, it is full also of the
overcoming of it. Appreciate Some Quotes?Helen Keller wrote:2. Keep your face to the sunshine
and you will not see the shadows.
3. I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. 4. The best and most beautiful things
in the world cannot be seen nor
touched but are felt in the heart.
5. When one door of happiness closes,
another opens; but often we look
so long at the closed door that we
do not see the one which has been
opened for us. Before reading, look at the title, pictures and the first couples of lines of the text.
Look for clues to help you predict what kind of text it is and what it is about.Reading Strategies Reading Strategy Read the text to get the general idea. Ignore words you don’t know.
Read the text again. Try to work out the meaning of important new words. PredictionLook at the title and the picture and read the first two sentences. Then make a prediction:
What may the passage talk about?Fast Reading1.How was Helen Keller different from other children?
2. Why Miss Sullivan could understand Helen’s difficulties?
3. How did Miss Sullivan teach Hellen learn new words?
4. When was the first time Helen realized what words were and connected them with the object in her other hand?
5. Why were the words “love” and ”think” so difficult for Helen to understand?1.How was Helen Keller different from
other children?Helen couldn’t see or hear and her behaviour was often unbearable. She was stubborn and angry and often broke things when she wasn’t understood.2. Why Miss Sullivan could understand
Helen’s difficulties?Because she had had eyesight problems early in life as well. 3. How did Miss Sullivan teach Hellen
learn new words?She would put an object into one of Helen’s hands and spell the word into her other hand.4. When was the first time Helen realized
what words were and connected them with
the object in her other hand?When Helen learned the word “water”.5. Why were the words “love” and ”think”
so difficult for Helen to understand?Because they were both abstract words rather than objects that Helen could touch. Discussion:
What kind of teacher do you think
Miss Sullivan is? Try to use as
many adjective words as you can:Pay attention to the synonyms and antonyms in this text.
Try to finish exercise 3 and 4 by yourself.Helen needed a superb teacher because she couldn’t speak , read and write. And Sullivan, who had eyesight problem, was a teacher and had the same experience with Helen.Retell All Sullivan got to do first is to stop Helen’s unbearable behaviors, and when they first met, she gave Helen a big hug. Sullivan’ s way of teaching is simple and straightforward. She taught Helen the word “doll” by spelling it on her hand.Anne put Helen’s hand under the water. As the water flowed over one hand , Sullivan spelled “water” into the other hand. Now that Helen understood the key to language, she was very eager to learn more and use it as much as she could.When Anne taught her the word “love” , she got confused about it. She mistook it for sun and the sweetness of flower.When Anne noticed that she had made a mistake when making a necklace of beads, she taught her the word “think”.She came to understand “think” and “love”-these 2 abstract words, which can not be touched.She realized that Anne deeply loved me.