Disabilities教案

　　unit17 disabilities
　　teaching aims:
　　1.talk about disability.
　　2.practise talking about ability and inability.
　　3.review direct and indirect objects.
　　4.write an argumentative essay.
　　teaching important points:
　　1.train the students’ listening ,speaking and reading ability.
　　2.make the students master the sentence patterns and describe the pictures freely.
　　3.enable the students to understand the text better.
　　4.review the interchanges of position on direct and indirect objects in the sentence.
　　teaching difficult points:
　　1.train the students’ listening ,speaking and reading ability.ability.
　　2.make the students master the sentence patterns and describe the pictures freely.
　　3. master the changes of the prepositions in the interchanges of direct and indirect objects.
　　teaching methods;
　　1.listening-and-answering activity to help the students go through with the listening materials.
　　2.inpidual,pair of group work to make every student work in class.
　　teaching aids:
　　1.a tape recorder
　　2.the multimedia
　　3.the blackboard
　　teaching procedures:
　　step 1 greetings
　　greet the whole class as usual.
　　step 2 free-talk and lead-in
　　give the ss ten minutes to talk about the topic on disability.
　　step 3 warming up
　　let the students look at the first four pictures on page 49 and then ask them to discuss the first four pictures using the following sentences.
　　sentence patterns:
　　(1)if i were in a wheelchair,i would…
　　(2)if i were blind,i wouldn’t…
　　step 4 listening
　　do some listening on page 50..you are going to hear john talking about his life. there are three questions for you to answer. (teacher plays the tape for the first time. then play for the second time. during this time, teacher may pause for students to write down the information. play some parts of the tape more times if necessary. finally teacher checks the answers with the whole class.)
　　step 5 speaking
　　three situations for students to discuss in pairs.
　　situation 1
　　you are blind. you want to visit a friend who lives on the other side of town. you have to go there by bus and you must change buses once.
　　situation 2
　　you are deaf. you are a very good football player and you want to join your school’s football team. you would also like to learn english.
　　situation 3
　　you are in a wheelchair .you and your friends have planned to go shopping, eat at a fast food restaurant and then go to a cinema. the shops you want to visit are in a building with several floors.
　　step 6 reading
　　three questions for students to discuss. teacher gives students five minutes to discuss and collects their answers.
　　1.do you know anyone who is disabled?
　　how does he or she deal with the disability?
　　2.do you know of any famous people who are disabled? what do they do?
　　3.should disabled students be allowed to go to college? should they get any extra help? why or why not?
　　ask the students to read the passage quickly to see whether they have grasped the brief meaning of it. then, re-read the passage carefully to further understand it. then answer the questions on the blackboard.
　　1.what’s the trouble of zhong xiaowen?
　　2.how does she get around?
　　3.what’s the teachers’ aim in the special college?
　　4.what do the articles in literature of chinese blind children talk about?
　　5.how does zijie like the magazine?
　　(teacher gives students enough time to read the text and collects their answers.)
　　suggested answers:
　　1. xiaowen was born without the ability to use her legs and she has no feeling below the waist.
　　2. she uses a wheelchair to get around.
　　3. their aim is to help disabled students understand that they can play a valuable role within society.
　　4. the articles are often about disabled people who have overcome challenges and difficulties and learnt to live a meaningful and productive life.
　　5. he loves the magazine very much. he thinks it is very important for them to know that someone far away is also st g as they are.
　　step 7 language points
　　treat vt.
　　treat sb. well(badly)
　　e.g. don’t treat me as a child.
　　which doctors are treating her for her illness?
　　ability n.  the ability to do,a man of ability
　　e.g. man has the ability to speak.
　　make a contribution to
　　e.g. we must do something useful and make a contribution to our country.
　　launch vt.
　　①launch a man-made satellite
　　②launch a new enterprise
　　③launch threats against sb.
　　play a …role(in, within)
　　e.g. he played a leading role in a film.
　　both…and…
　　e.g. both you and i are students.
　　he both fears and hates at once.
　　step 8 practice
　　change the position of the direct object and indirect object in the following sentences.
　　1. i’ll lend you some.
　　2. he gave his wife a camera for christmas.
　　3. we’re going to sing some songs for the heroes.
　　4. bring me the book.
　　5. she made a coat for me.
　　6. he bought flowers for his teacher.
　　(give the students several minutes to practice them, and then teacher may check their practice.)
　　suggested answers:
　　1. i’ll lend some to you.
　　2. he gave a camera to his wife for christmas.
　　3. we’re going to sing the heroes some songs.
　　4. bring the book to me.
　　5. she made me a coat.
　　6. he bought his teacher flowers.
　　step 9 writing
　　public places, such as streets, shops and schools, belong to all of us .we must make sure that all of us have equal access to all areas and facilities. one way you can help is by conducting a survey of the public places where you live. start with your school: how easy or difficult is it for a disabled person to get around? visit other public buildings and find out whether they are accessible or not.
　　work in pairs or groups and make a checklist for your survey. what will you look for? where can you go and who can you ask? when you have conducted the survey the survey, use the results to write an essay. describe the current situation and suggest ways to improve the situation. share your results with the class.
　　step 10 summary and homework
　　in this class, we’ve reviewed some new words and mainly done some exercises about direct and indirect objects. after class, review the content, and remember the verbs that can be followed by double objects.
　　homework: preview the integrating skills.
　　background information
　　helen keller
　　helen keller(1880~1968) was a famous author and educator. she was stricken at the age of 19 months with an illness that left her deaf and blind. she became mute shortly thereafter. her parents in 1887 got her a teacher anne mansfield sullivan from the perkings school for the blind in boston. a remarkable, close relationship developed between teacher and pupil. within two years, miss keller was able to read and write in braille. she graduated(1904)from radcliffe college, where miss sullivan had spelled the lectures into her hand.
　　helen keller devoted her life to publicly aiding the deaf and blind. with the aid of a translator, she toured the world to promote the education of persons similarly afflicted. she wrote numerous books, including＂the story of my life＂(1902).