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Unit 2
Onwards and Upwards
外研版选择性必修第一册
Developing ideas & Presenting ideas
Learning objectives
Master key vocabulary, parallelism and subjunctive mood in the text about Helen Keller.
Analyze the text structure and sort out Helen’s three-day plans and inner feelings.
Deliver logical speeches to share opinions on cherishing our senses and respecting the disabled.
Write personal experience passages with vivid details and proper literary devices.
Contents
1. Lead in
2. Pre-reading
3.While-reading
4.Post-reading
5.Writing
6. Summary
7. Assessment
8. Homework
01. Lead in
Lead-in
Lead in
If you were blind, how would you feel?
What difficulties would you face?
a walker/cane
blind tracks
a guide dog
Tell the importance of our sight
02. Pre-reading
Lead-in
Pre-reading
Background Information
Helen Keller (1880 —1968) was an American writer, lecturer and social activist(积极分子). Aged just 19 months old, she became ill and lost both her hearing and sight. With the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan, she overcame her disabilities and went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree(文学学士学位).
Lead-in
Pre-reading
03. While-reading
Lead-in
Skimming
1.What’s the genre of the passage?
Prose(散文) is a quite flexible literary genre. In English, the term “prose” is very broad and comprehensive in meaning. In broad sense, it refers to any writing not in verse form(和诗歌相对的文体). In a narrow sense, it is confined to the literary genre as opposed to poetry, fiction and drama, much like sanwen, suibi or xiaopinwen in Chinese literature.
2.What are the main wishes of the author?
She would like to be able to see for three days.
Lead-in
Skimming
3.What’s the structure of the passage?
para. .
para. .
para. .
1-3
4-7
8
the author’s thoughts
how to spend 3 days
the author’s advice
Lead-in
Scanning
1.Read the passage carefully. Choose the author’s purpose and give your reasons.
1 To help readers understand what it is like to be blind.
2 To make readers without disabilities appreciate what they have.
3 To persuade readers to care about the blind.
2
Lead-in
Scanning
2.Read the passage and find out what the author would do if she could see.
On the
first day To _______________ having helped her and accompanied her;
To _______________ which have opened her mind;
To ______________ in the woods and ____________________________.
see the people
see the books
take a long walk
appreciate the beauty of nature
4 On the first day, I should want to see the people whose kindness and gentleness and companionship have made my life worth living. I don not know what it is to see into the heart of a friend through that “window of the soul”, the eye. I can only ”see” through my fingertips the outline of a face. I should like to see the books which have been read to me, and which have revealed to me the deepest channels of human life and the human spirit. In the afternoon I should take a long walk in the woods and intoxicate my eyes on the beauties of the world of nature. That night, I should not be able to sleep.
Lead-in
Scanning
2.Read the passage and find out what the author would do if she could see.
On the second day To ____________ of man’s civilization progress;
To _________________ and spend the evening at _________ or at the _________.
5. On my second day, I should like to see the pageant of man’s progress, and I should go to the museums. I should try to probe into the soul of man through his art. The things I knew through touch I should now see. The evening of my second day I should spend at a theater or at the movies.
go to the museums
theater
movies
see a pageant
Lead-in
Scanning
2.Read the passage and find out what the author would do if she could see.
On the
third day To _______________again, anxious to discover new delights, new revelations of beauty.
To spend the third day in the ________________.
greet the dawn
workaday world
6 The following morning, I should again greet the dawn, anxious to discover new delights, new revelations of beauty. Today I shall spend in the workaday world, amid the haunts of men going about the business of life.
7 At midnight permanent night would close in on me again. Only when darkness had again descended upon me should I realize how much I had left unseen.
Lead-in
Scanning
2.Read the passage and find out what the author would do if she could see.
Read the last paragraph and answer the questions
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow you tactile sense would fail...
Why did the author give a hint / tip to readers?
see
smell
hear
touch
taste
Lead-in
Scanning
3.Helen’s emotion and qualities. Use some adj. words to describe her.
Love for herself & her friends
Concern for human and history
Care for lives of the world
self
nature
society
small
big
positive, friendly,
strong-willed,(意志坚定的)
courageous(勇敢的)...
thankful/grateful, kind
knowledgeable
Lead-in
Scanning
4.How does the writer express her emotions?And its function?
By parallelism:
a.段落排比(Parallel paragraphs):
On the first day, I should want to see...
On my second day, I should like to see...
The following morning, I should again...
b.句子排比(Parallel sentences):
Use your eyes as if tomorrow...
Hear the music of voices, ...as if tomorrow...
Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow...
creates a balanced flow of ideas.(句式平衡,工整。)
be used as a tool for persuasion.
Lead-in
Language Points
突然失明失聪
对……欣赏、感激
时常
特别地;尤其
值得关注
譬如
值得过
调查;探究
着手做
be stricken blind and deaf
be appreciative of
now and then
in particular
be worthy of note
say for … (相当于for example)
be worth living
probe into
go about
Lead-in
Language Points
If 从句的谓语形式 主句的谓语形式
与现在事实
相反 did / were should / would /
could / might + do
与过去事实
相反 had + done should / would /
could / might + have done
与将来事实
可能相反 did / were
should + do
were to + do should / would /
could / might + do
虚拟语气在 if 条件句中的用法
04.
Post-reading
Lead-in
Post-reading
Read and discuss the meaning of the sentence and decide whether you agree or disagree with it.
Organise your talk and make notes.
Give a talk about your opinion on the sentence from the passage.
Give your talk to the class.
Lead-in
Post-reading
A Sample
It would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life, which sounds ridiculous but is true in fact.
For one thing, we could value everything we used to take for granted. Second, we could experience the difficult situations the disabled persons have to experience every day. In turn you would be reeady to help people in diffiluty. For example, if you were blind and became a seeing person one day, can you imagine how wildly you were excited! It's natural for you to help blind people because you had the same empathy. Finally, we could raise our awareness to keep healthy. Some dieting and sleeping habits tend to lead to eye diseases or hearing problems, which we could overlook everyday.
I think this is a ggod way to remind us to appreciste what we have now.
Point of view
Arguments and examples
Conclusion
05.
Writing
Lead-in
Writing
Read the passage and answer the questions.
1 Why did the author go to the “dark restaurant” ?
Because the author wanted to understand the experience of being blind, thinking eating would be the most difficult activity.
Lead-in
Writing
Read the passage and answer the questions.
2 What difficulties did the author have during the meal?
① The author knocked over glasses and dropped food.
② The author ate much more slowly, trying to guess what was being eaten.
③ Pouring water was very difficult.
④ After failing to pick up any food with a fork for five minutes, the author decided to use hands, but stuck one hand into a bowl of warm, thick soup.
⑤ Even using a spoon, most of the soup ended up on the author’s shirt.
3 How did the author feel after finishing the meal?
The author left the restaurant feeling hungry, though much more aware of the challenges that blind people face.
Lead-in
Writing
Try to experience what it is like to have a disability and make notes.
Now write a short passage to describe your experience.
Lead-in
Writing
One possible version:
Today in class, we played a game called “the blind traveller”, in which one has to walk through some barriers with their eyes blindfolded. It is through this experience that I started to realise how inconvenient life could be for a blind person.
Not being able to see where I was going, I kept going off the path and turning in the wrong direction. What’s more, without the ability to accurately locate the position of the barriers, I often fell over them, even though I was moving at an extremely slow speed. And a loss of balance increased the difficulty of this short journey. After falling over more than ten times, I finally reached my destination on hands and knees.
Without sight, I couldn’t even complete this short journey of no more than 15 metres smoothly, let alone overcome all the other various difficulties in daily life. I do realise that life must be much more challenging for the blind people.
06.
Summary
Lead-in
Summary
Time Activities Emotions
1st See kind and gentle people, see the books read to her, take a walk in the woods
Recall the whole day
2nd Visit museums to probe into the soul of man
See a play or a movie
3rd Greet the dawn, see the busy life of ordinary people
Recall the whole day
Love for family and friends.
Concern for human and history
Care for lives of the world
Self
Society
A whole observation of human life
World
07.
Assessment
Lead-in
Assessment
Learning Objectives Score(1-5)
1.After learning, I am able to analyze the full text structure independently.
2.After learning, I am able to organize clear viewpoints and deliver a complete speech about valuing senses and caring for disabled people.
3.After learning, I am able to write a vivid personal experience passage, applying subjunctive mood and parallel structures properly.
5-完全能;4-基本能;3-不确定;2不太能;1-完全不能
08.
Homework
Lead-in
Homework
1.Do temporary blindness help people cherish life? 要求:正反辩证,运用虚拟语气、排比、高级词汇
Some people believe being stricken blind for days can teach us to value our senses, and I partly agree. If we lose sight temporarily, we will probe into the beauty we once took for granted. We will be appreciative of every bright day, every smiling face. However, temporary experience cannot equal lifelong suffering of the blind. We should not wait for loss to learn gratitude. Instead, we ought to observe life carefully every day, listen to people around us, and feel every warm touch. Cherish what you own right now, before darkness comes.
Lead-in
Homework
2.对比中外残障励志人物精神内核,结合文本海伦的思想,谈谈当代青年如何践行 “珍惜拥有、心怀善意”
Helen Keller and Chinese disabled role models like Zhang Haidi share the same spirit: courage and gratitude. Deprived of sight and hearing, Helen still found joy in books and nature, reminding us life is worth living. Similarly, Zhang kept studying and helped rural patients despite physical pain. The text tells us to use senses cautiously as if they would disappear tomorrow. As teenagers, we should stop ignoring small happiness. We can go about our daily life with thankfulness, probe into the difficulties of disabled groups, and always be ready to offer warmth. Only in this way can we live an upward and meaningful life.
Thank you
for your listening
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