Living well
What do you think of the life of the people with a disability?
Full of difficulties?
Boring?
Hopeless?
MARTY’S STORY
Unit 1 Reading
Part I
Part II
Para.2
Para.3
Para.4
Part III
Para. 5
Marty’s illness and life
Para.1
Introduction
Marty’s advice
Scanning for specific information
Part I Para.1 Introduction
difficulties
_________ _________ __________ that makes him very weak.
can’t ______ or _______stairs as quickly as other people.
_________ and _________ things or ______ ______ furniture.
A muscle disease
run
climb
clumsy
drop
bump into
Live one day at a time.
Live a rich and full life every day.
①
②
③
Marty’s illness
Life at high school
Difficulties in primary school
Part II
Para. 2 Marty’s illness
the same as
swim
play
get weaker
weaker
medical tests
I
Until I was ten I was _________ __________ ________ everyone else.
I used to climb, ________ and________.
Then
I started to ______ ______and _________.
In the end
I went into hospital for ________ _______.
①
②
③
Para. 3 Difficulties in primary school
Some children would laugh at me.
I was too weak to go to school.
I felt stupid because I was behind
the others.
II
sometimes
sometimes
every time
①
②
③
Para. 4 Life at high school
have
accepted
annoyed
ignore
work for a firm that develops
computer software when he grows up.
Watching movies & football matches, keeping pets.
III
life at
high school My fellow students _________ ___________me.
Others didn’t make me __________, and I just ________ them.
ambition
hobbies
③
④
What Marty does in spite of his disability:
①
②
③
1. Don’t feel sorry for the disabled.
2. Don’t make fun of them.
3. Don’t ignore them.
4. Accept them for who they are.
5. Give them encouragement to live as rich and full a life as you do.
Part III Para. 5 Marty’s advice
To retell the story of Marty.
before 10
after 10
at high school
now
1. Surf the Internet to find more information about the life of the disabled.
2. Write down your advice on how to help the disabled.
Homework
4 What can other people do to help Marty and others like him live a good life?
They can accept people with disabilities
like Marty for who they are rather than
focus on their disability. They can
encourage them to live rich and full lives.
Because they found that Marty was
able to live as rich and full a life as
everyone else.
5 Why has his fellow students’ conduct
changed towards Marty?
Don’t feel sorry for the disabled or make fun
of them, and don’t ignore them either. Just
accept them for who they are, and give them
encouragement to live as rich and full a life as
you do.
Careful reading
重难点句式分析
1. I think I had at least a billion tests, including one in which they cut out a piece of muscle from my leg and looked at it under a microscope.
宾语从句
定语从句
including sth.
cut sth. out: to remove sth. from sth. larger by?cutting, usually with scissors(通常用剪刀)剪掉,去掉
e.g.: The cancerous cells (癌细胞) had to be cut out.
我认为我至少(被别人)做了10亿次试验,其中一次他们在我腿上割下一片肌肉,然后放在显微镜下观察。
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1. We get three days off, including New Year's Day.
2. Our car journey took three hours, including a couple of stops to stretch our legs.
3. Many topics are covered in the course, including travel and hotels, food and drink, and shopping etc.
4. It's $10.95, not including tax.
including: prep.
including: prep. having sth as part of a group or set
我们放三天假,包括元旦在内。
我们开三个小时车,包括中途停了一两次伸伸腿。
这个课程中涉及很多话题,包括旅行和住宿,餐饮,购物等。
这个是10.95美元,不含税。
5. Eight people, including two children, were injured in the explosion.
6. Including weekends, there are only twelve more shopping days until Christmas.
八人在爆炸中受伤,其中包括两名儿童。
算上周末,到圣诞节可购物的时间也就再只有12天了。
including引导的介词短语在句中做补充说明或解释,可位于句子逗号后;或句中;句首。
根据其位置及补充说明的对象,可看作是定语、补语、插入语等。
Translation.
Six people were killed in the riot, including a policeman.
1. 暴乱中有六人死亡,包括一名警察。
She cut out his picture from the magazine.
2. 她从杂志上剪下他的照片。
2. The few who cannot see the real person inside my body do not make me annoyed, and I just ignore them.
定语从句
“make+宾语+宾补” 这一结构中,宾语补足语可以由名词、形容词、v-ed、不定式等来充当。
A?good?friend?is?someone?who?makes?you?happy.
那些看不到我内心世界的人,不会让我感到生气,我只是不理会他们。
annoy v. to make sb. slightly angry 使恼怒,使生气
annoyed adj. slightly angry 恼怒的,生气的
annoyance n. the feeling of being slightly angry 恼怒,生气
Translation.
She had to?shout?to make herself heard?above the?sound?of the?music.
1. 她必须大声喊,才能盖过音乐的声
音,让别人听见。
At that time I often did wrong things which made my parents very angry.
2. 那时我经常做错事,令我父母很生气。
Post-reading activities
* his personality
* problems caused by his disability
* his ways to live a good life
* how would your life change if you were to develop a muscle disease like Marty’s
Work with your partner and make a dialogue about Marty, including the information below:
same
climb
clumsy
bumps into
weaker and weaker
for
out of breath
suffered
stupid
absence
make
accepted
found
sit around
psychologically
independent
Fill in the blanks and try to retell the passage according to it.
I’m Marty Fielding. I have a muscle disease which makes me ______ weak ____ run or climb stairs. But I want to tell all healthy children: don’t feel sorry for me or ____________ me. Just accept me.
Until I was ten I was the same as everyone else. Then I started to __________________: I got ___________ after running a short way, I couldn’t play football, and I even couldn’t go to school. And every time I returned after an _________, I felt stupid because I was behind the others.
But I have a happier life at high school. My fellow students ___________ me. And I found many things I can do, like writing and ___________________. __________ going to the movies and football matches with my friends, I spend a lot of time looking after my pets.
____________ my disability has helped me grow stronger psychologically and become more independent. I believe I can live ____________________ you do.
too to
out of breath
computer programming
make fun of
get weaker and weaker
absence
as rich and full a life as
In many ways
have accepted
As well as
Fill in the blanks to finish the Summary of the text and then try to retell it.
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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.?
当通往幸福的一扇门关闭时,另一扇会打开,但是我们往往太久注视着关上的那扇门而看不到已经为我们打开的那扇门。
How does this woman want to be treated? Watch the video clip and fill in the blanks.
I want to live in a world where disability is not the _________, but the _____.
I want to live in a world where we don’t ______
___________________ of disabled people.
I want to live in a world where we ______
___________________ for disabled people.
exception
norm
have such low expectations
value genuine achievement
Now 2 minutes to test your spelling.
English-Chinese
bench, microscope, fellow, firm, software,
parrot, tank, tortoise, psychology
取笑,改编,惹恼,颇为生气的,
外向的,适应,鼓励,心理(学)地
Chinese-English
When finishing, exchange your papers to see who does the best.
课时短语回顾
cut out
all in all
in other words
sit around
out of breath
in many ways
adapt to
make fun of
as well as
1. 切去;省略;停止
2. 总而言之
3. 换句话说
4. 闲坐着
5. 上气不接下气
6. 在很多方面
7. 适合
8. 取笑
9. 和;也
Homework
1. Read the passage again and review
the new words and expressions.
2. 发挥想象,连词成文(50-100字).
clumsy, in other words, adapt, annoyed, make fun of, all in all, encouragement, in many ways,
as well as.