选修七 Unit 1 Living well Period 1[优秀教案](2)

1．Develop students' reading ability.

2．Help students understand the difficulties the disabled have to overcome. 教学方法

1．Task－based teaching and learning. 2．Cooperative learning.

教学过程

Warming up

1．Warming up by discussing

First ask students to talk about people with a mental or physical disability to see how much they know about disabilities.Then show some photos of people with disabilities.Students will be asked to discuss the following questions in small groups.

Do you know any famous people who are disabled? What difficulties do they have to overcome in daily life? What have they achieved? Suggested answers：

Steven Hawking has a muscle disease，but he makes great contributions in science and puts forward his theory about black holes.

Beethoven was deaf in one ear when he was 26 and totally deaf at the age of 35，but he was a great composer.

Helen Keller was deaf and blind，but she was a great writer. 2．Warming up by talking

First，ask students to look at the pictures and read what these people have achieved even though they each have a disability.Next，work with partners to talk about what disability they might have according to each description below the picture.

Suggested answers：

Rosalyn is in a wheelchair.She has walking difficulty.

Richard has difficulty with eyesight，so he can't read the questions or write the answers for his college entrance exams.

Sally has hearing problems (though not deaf as she can still understand loud speech in the cinema)．

Gao Qiang was born with Down's Syndrome，which is a mental disability.Some Doun's

Syndrome Down's Sufferers have made a good career as actors.

Pre－reading

Ask students to read the short paragraph in Pre－reading carefully and find out the purpose of the website “Family Village”．

Suggested answers：

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.

Reading

1．Skimming

Give students 2 minutes；ask them to read the passage fast to fill in the blanks： Sum up the main idea of each paragraph：