(共35张PPT)
Living well
Unit 1
As a normal person/ able-bodied person, I live well; so do you.
Look at the pictures below.
What are their problems?
lose their left legs
lose her hearing----deaf
lose her sight---blind
paralyzed
(瘫痪)
Disability is a lack of ability relative to
a personal or group standard. Disability
may involve various impairments (缺陷),
mental disorder and different types of
chronic (慢性) diseases. A disability may
occur during a person's lifetime or may
be present from birth.
What is Disability?
How many different types of disabilities do you know?
blind
lame
deaf-mute
paralytic
disabled people
armless
legless
handless
disabled people
hunchbacked
The following list might help you.
mental disability learning difficulty
hearing problem difficulty with eyesight
brain injury loss of an arm or a leg
=armless/legless
walking difficulty
Do you know these people
below and what disease they
have? How do they face their
life with disabilities?
Steven Hawking
physicist /
mathematician
famous scientist known
for his theory about
black holes
A Brief History of Time
Steven Hawking
England
肌萎缩性侧索硬化症 amyotrophic
speech impaired/can only move one of his fingers
research into the beginning of space, matter and time.
born mentally
disabled with an
IQ of a child
famous conductor
Zhouzhou (舟舟)
became disabled at the
age of 5, taught herself
English and took up
writing in 1983
writer
Zhang Haidi (张海迪)
though named “杨光”,
he has lived in a world
of darkness since he was
8 months old.
Yang Guang (杨光)
singer
He impressed the audience at 2008 Spring Festival Gala Evening.
Beethoven
musician
Let’s enjoy his well-known work Symphony(交响乐) No. 5. also named The Destiny Symphony.
Beethoven's hearing gradually worsened
in his twenties, yet he continued to compose, and to conduct and perform, even after he was completely deaf.
deaf, a great inventor, more than 1000 inventions in his life
Thomas Edison
Helen Keller
American educator/writer
Helen Keller became
blind when she was
less than 2 years old.
She was deaf soon after
that. He grew into a
highly intelligent
woman with her teacher’s
help. Her most famous article Three Days
to See.
Pair Work
What inspire them to live well?
What does these people’s stories tell us?
As long as they don’t lose heart, the disabled can also make great contributions with their efforts. Some are even better than normal people.
Do you want to know more about disability? Let’s get online to
http://www.familyvillage.wise.edu
Please read the family village website.
The “Family Village” is a _______.
To give ordinary young people with a disability a chance to share their stories with others.
website
The purpose of the website:
difficulties
__ ______ _______
makes him very weak.
______ and can’t ___ or _____ stairs as quickly as other people.
A muscle disease
disease
Clumsy
run
climb
motto
live one day __ _ ____.
What does “live one day at a time” mean?
Live a rich and full life every day.
Para.1
at a time
When Marty says “ I am one in a
million”, he really means he ________.
A. is unique
B. has a rare disease
C. has a muscle disease
D. lives a hard but happy life
Para 2
How his disability developed?
used to started to went into
stayed had tests
Para 3
Marty met a lot of difficulties at school.
1. laugh , out of breath
2.too weak to
3.absence , stupid
What are the Marty’s ambition,
achievement and hobby?
1) Marty’s ambition _________________________________________________________________
2) Marty’s achievement
__________________________________
__________________________________
3) Marty’s hobby
__________________________________
work for a firm that develops computer
software when he grows up.
invented a computer football game and a big company has decided to buy it.
movies, football matches; look after pets.
Para.4
Marty’s advice :
1. Don’t feel sorry for them.
2. Don’t make fun of them.
3. Don’t ignore them.
4. Accept them for who they are.
5. Encourage them to live as
rich and full a life as you do.
Para.5
We can see that
Marty is a/an ____ person.
optimistic, brave, positive, active,
independent, strong-minded…