To get some ideas about five senses: sight, hearing, tastes, smell and touchTo learn how some people live, communicate each other and make great achievements even if they lose the ability to use one of their senses

1. With what do we see and hear?We see with our eyes and hear with our ears.

2. How do we know whether a dish is delicious?

We taste it with our tongues.

3. How do we know that a flower has a pleasant smell?

We smell it with our noses.

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4. What do we do when we want to know whether the water in the basin is hot or cold?

We put our hands in the water to feel it.

5. How do we know about the world around us?

We usually use our five senses. They are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

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We With… The sense

see

hear

taste

smell

eyes sight

ears hearing

tongue/taste buds

taste

nose smell

touch/feel hands/feet/skin touch

Sometimes our senses affect one another. Can you give some examples?

Remember holding your nose when your mother was about to give you a spoonful of medicine?

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The senses of taste and smell are linked to one another. Often the loss of one will result in the loss of the other.

If your nose is blocked from a cold, you may find the food is tasteless.

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Can blind people read? And how?

The blind can read by touching raised dots which represent numbers and letters. This system is called Braille.

When one of the senses fails, other senses become stronger.

How do the deaf communicate with each other?

The deaf can communicate by body language or sign language.

1. What can you see in picture one? 2. Are the two lines of the same length in picture 2? 3. Can you prove that the two lines in picture 3 are straight? 4. How can you read line b in picture 4?

1. When looking at the white part, we can see a vase, but

two faces when looking at the black part.

2. We can measure the two lines with a ruler or use two pieces of paper to cover both ends of the two lines. The answer is the two lines are the same length.

3. Place a ruler next to the lines or use a ruler to draw more straight lines which run parallel to the two lines. Then we’ll know the answer.

4. For line b in picture 4 we can read them as the letters K, B, R and M, or K, 13, R and M.

Some other interesting pictures for you to enjoy and talk about.

How many black dots can you see?

How many people can you see in the picture?

What can you see in the picture?

如果从你座位前的电脑上看上面的图片 左边的图形是生气的脸 而右边的图形是平静的脸 然后请你起立 往后走几步 突然间他们交换位置了 !!!

Move or not?

Why are people misled ( 误导 ) by their own eyes?

Because the background or other lines confuse the eyes. Also, what we expect to see can change what we see. Actually, the brain is confused and not the eyes.

Moonlight Reflected On The Er-Quan Spring

What do they have in common?

They all made great achievements even if they lost some of their senses.

Beethoven 张海迪

To be thankful, to dream big and never give up!

学会感恩，敢于梦想，永不放弃！

If I fail, I try again, and again, and again. Because the moment I give up, is the moment I fail.

就算失败了，我会一次又一次的尝试。因为决定放弃的那一刻，我才是真正的失败。

God is always fair, he closed the door but he will open a window for you ！ 上帝永远是公平的。他关上了一扇门，但会为你打开一扇窗。

Preview the wordlist in Unit 1

Think about how to read a story

Preview the Reading on Pages 2-3

Write a short passage according to the questions on page 1.