LESSON 78

DISSABILITY(1)

DIRECTED BY HUANG LI PING2004.4.12

Lesson 78 Disabilities (1)

How many types of disabilities can you name?

What problems may disabled have?

Can you name some of the famous disabled people and some successful disabled people?

Vision, hearing, body, limbs, sense, intelligence, mentality

Blindness, deaf and mute, movement, speech, smell, performance of everyday life

President Franklin Roosevelt, Ludwig van Beethoven, Stephen Hawking, Helen Keller , Zhang Haidi , Hong ZhiGong …

President Roosevelt Franklin

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( 1933- 1945)

Beethoven began to lose his hearing in the 1790s and was completely deaf by 1818. His best-known composition is the Ninth Symphony, the Ode to Joy.

Helen keller

Look at this picture, do you know anything about him?

Physicist Stephen Hawking, author of the best-selling book A Brief History of Time. His discoveries about gravitation are regarded as some of the most important contributions to that area of physics since Albert Einstein introduced the general theory of relativity in 1915.

Watch the video and answer the following: 1）What is the professor talking

about in the lecture hall ? 2）When did he begin to notice

that it was difficult for him to move around without falling over ?

1 ） The professor is talking

about his special subject: the beginning of space ,matter ， and time.2 ） By the time he was 21 years old ， he had begun to notice that it was difficult for him to move around without falling over.

Say Yes or No.

1. Professor Stephen Hawking who gives a talk in a lecture hall of a university uses a very strange voice because the sound he makes is produced by a computer and a voice box.2. He first has to type out the answer on a computer and then gets the computer to translate it into sounds. So he can answer each question very quickly. 3. Many people come to his lecture only because Stephen Hawking is one of the top three physics experts in his particular field.4. Professor Stephen Hawking became disabled because he had a disease of the brain.

5. “On History of Time”is about the beginning of space ， matter ， and time.

6. The passage lists many examples of successful people with disabilities, saying that the disabled people can be successful in many ways except in the fields of sports.

Answer the following questions

1. Who is the Professor ?

2. How does Professor Stephen Hawking communicate with other people ?

The Professor is a world-famous physicist in Cambridge University.

He communicates with others by a computer and a voice box3.Why is he famous for ?

He is famous for his special subject :the beginning of the space,matter, and time. 4. Do you think many disabled people can enjoy their lives as much as we do ? Yes , they do.They also brighten the world with their lives.

Discussion1. What can we learn from Professo

r Stephen Hawking ? 2.Talk about Hong Zhigong in Hai N

an , and what can we learn from him?

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