Unit 1 Living well

Look at the pictures below. What are their problems?

lose their legs

Warming up

lose her hearing

lose her sight

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?

Do you know these people below and what disease theyhave? How do they face their life with disabilities?

Beethoven

He is a famous composerand he is half-deaf.

Helen KellerBlind, deaf and dumb

Steven Hawking

physicist / mathematician

famous scientist known for his theory about black holes and big bangs:A Brief History of 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 )

Ma Li Zhai Xiaowei( 马丽 翟孝伟 ) dancers“ 他们的舞蹈完美的让人忘记了身体的残缺。”舞台

上翟孝伟永远扮演着马丽的右臂，而马丽则是他的左腿。

though named “ 杨光” ,he has lived in a worldof darkness since he was8 months old.

Yang Guang ( 杨光 )

singer

He impressed the audience at 2008 Spring Festival Gala Evening.

Tai Lihuadeaf dancer

the disabled people

confidence

What spirits and characteristics make the disabled successful?

belief

will

determination

confident

optimism

independence

Discussion

They’re broken in body but firm in spirit. （身残志坚）

There is a website called “Family Village” on the internet. Let’s see what can we see in it.

1. To give ordinary young people with a disability a chance to share their stories with others.2 ． To inspire other disabled people.3 ． To get non － disabled people to understand more about how challenging life can be for people with disabilities.

Marty’s Story

Para 1:

Para 2:

Match the main idea to each paragraph.The problems he has to deal with.

How his life has become easier.

An introduction to Marty and his muscle disease.

How his disability developed.The advantages of his disease.

Para 3:

Para 4:

Para 5:

Skimming

difficulties

____ ______ _________ that makes

him very weak.

_________and can’t ____ or ______

stairs as quickly as other people.

A muscle diseasedisease

Clumsy run climb

motto To live one day ___ _____ ______.at a time

Scanning:

What does “live one day at a time” mean?Live a rich and full life every day.

Para1

Para 2-3: True or false 1. Marty looks the same as others.

2. Marty had at least a billion medical tests.

3. The doctors cut out a piece of muscle from his leg to find out the cause of the disease.

4. Marty’s dream was to play football at college.

5. He lost his breath even after running a short way.

6. He didn’t feel sorry to fall behind the others.

TF

T

F

T

F

Marty thinks he

professional football

felt stupid

Para 4What are Marty’s

ambition,achievement and hobby?1.ambition

2. achievement

3. hobby

To work for a firm that develops computer software when he grows up.

invented a computer football game and a big companyhas decided to buy it from him

Going to the movies and football matches and keeping pets .

Marty’s advice :

Para 5

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.

Further understanding (1):

hopeful

the change of Marty’s feelings:

hopeless stupid

not get annoyedgood/busy

Further understanding (2):

We can see that Marty is a ____ person.

optimistic, brave, stupid, pessimistic, independent, strong-minded…

optimisticbraveindependentstrong-minded

Let me try!

1.Do you think disabled people can live a happy life as normal people now?

Group discussion

For: Disabled people can live a happy life as normal people now

Against: Disabled people may not live a happy life as normal people now

A free debate

( Quoted from the website of China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe: http://www.cdppat.org.cn/)

“Even for a withered flower, it longs to contribute all of its fragrance.

Even it is a broken tree, it longs to contribute all of its shade.”

哪怕是一朵残缺的花，也想献出全部芬芳；哪怕是一棵受伤的树，也要献出一片绿荫。

To all of us, some things are given and some withheld, over which we have no choice. But one can always choose ones outlook on life, look more on the positive side, and face life’s disappointments with a cheerful and grateful heart.

Dance is the visible, colourful embodiment of music. Dance gives beautiful expression to the world within my heart.

--- Tai Lihua

所有人的人生，都有圆有缺有满有空，这是你不能选择的。但你可以选择看人生的角度，多看人生的圆满，然后带着一颗快乐的心去面对人生的不圆满。舞蹈，是我看得见的彩色音乐，也是我表达内心世界的美丽语言。

--- 邰丽华

Homework Retell Marty’s story with about 30

words or translate the following passage

into English:

马蒂是一个残疾的孩子，但是他有着积极的生活态度。他从来不为他的残疾而感到羞愧，相反，他努力使自己和别人一样独立。他过着充实的生活。

Thank you ！