Unit 1 living well Reading Marty’s story

Unit 1 living well Reading Marty’s story
1. Ability goals
Help students to learn about disabilities and life of the disabled. Enable students to realize people with disabilities can also live well
2. Learning ability goals
By talking about disabilities and life of the disabled, students will learn some positive stories of the disabled. This will help students understand more about how challenging life can be for the disabled.
Teaching important points
How positive stories about the people with disabilities inspire others.
Teaching difficult points
How to help student understand the difficulties the disable have to overcome. Teaching methods
explaining, reading and practising, pair work or group discussion
Teaching aids
Multimedia computer
Teaching procedures & ways
Lead-in list some great disabled people and their achieves.
1. Listening What kind of disease does Marty have?
2. Fast-reading The main ideas of each paragraph
Para 1: The advantages of his disease
Para 2: Marty met a lot of difficulties at school
Para 3: An introduction to Marty and his muscle disease
Para 4:How his life has become easier
Para5: How his disability developed
3.Careful reading Read the whole passage one paragraph after another and collect the information about Marty.
Para 1 : Marty has a __ which makes him very weak, so he can’t
or as quickly as other people. In addition, sometimes he is very
and or furniture
Para 2:
1. What’s Marty’s dream?
A. Being a famous football player and representing his country in the World Cup.
B. Being a doctor.
C. Being a college student.
D. Being a basketball player.
2. Why did the doctors cut out a piece of musc le from Marty’s leg?
A.Because they could cure the disease by cutting it out.
B.Because they wanted to use it as a specimen(标本).
C.Because they would transplant(移植) the new muscle.
D.Because they wanted to find out the cause of the disease
Para3 & Para 4
T or F
1.The few who cannot see the real person inside my body do make me annoyed, and I just
hate them.
2.I have a very busy life with no time to sit around feeling sorry for myself.
Para 5
a. Don’t feel __ for them.
b. Don’t __ __ __ them.
c. Don’t __ them.
d. __ them for who they ar
e.
e. Give them encouragement to _________________________________
4. summary
5. Discussion
What kind of person do you think Marty is?
As normal people, what can we do in our daily life to help the disabled lead a happy life?
6. Homework
Retell Marty’s story according to the mini biography.。