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Unit 1 Teenage Life
Reading and Thinking
Warming-up
No goal is too big.
No dream is too far fetched.
It’s as big as you can dream it!
Nick Vujicic
How many different types of disabilities do you know?
Warming-up
blind
lame
deaf-mute(聋哑人)
paralytic (瘫痪的)
Physically disabled
Roger
5
armless
legless
handless
hunchbacked(驼背的)
Physically disabled
dwarf (侏儒)
Roger
6
Do you know any famous people who are disabled? What do they do?
Warming-up
Steven Hawking
physicist; paralytic
known for his theory about
black holes and big bangs
A Brief History of Time
Warming-up
Zhang Haidi
writer; paralytic
Helen Keller(1880—1968)
writer; educator
blind and dumb
Warming-up
Beethoven(1770—1827) musician; deaf
Zhouzhou
conductor
born mentally disabled with an IQ of a child
They’re broken in body but firm in spirit, disabled but strong-willed. To know more about disability, let’s get online to http://www.familyvillage.wise.edu.
Reading
Marty’s Story
Skimming
1) Main idea: _______as Marty is , he never feels _______ for himself and enjoys his life.
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3
Para 4
Para 5
An introduction to Marty and his muscle disease
The advantages of his disease
Marty met a lot of difficulties at school
How his life become easier
How his disability developed
2) Match each paragraph with its main idea.
3) What is the tone of the text?
A. Negative B. Positive
Disabled
sorry
difficulties
___ ______ _________ that 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 ___ _____ ______.
at a time
What does “live one day at a time” mean?
Live a rich and full life every day.
Para.1
Careful Reading
Careful Reading
1. Why did the doctors cut out a piece of muscle from Marty’s leg?
A. To cure the disease.
B. To use it as a specimen(标本).
C. To transplant the new muscle.
D. to find out the cause of the dise