2. Look at the picture and guess what they are 1)Is this a picture of Chinese Majiang? 2)Is this a picture of a kind of alphabet? The picture shows the Braille alphabet in which the black dots are raised for blind people to feel with their fingers.

3. Braille System Louis Braille, who became blind from an accident at age 3, developed the Braille System to help teach blind children to read and write. The system of letters, numbers, and punctuation marks consists of six raised points or dots used in 63 possible combinations.

4. What are these letters in the Braille alphabet? h e le nke l l e r Helen Keller

5. Write down your name in Braille

6. Write down the name in Braille Zhao Benshan

7. Write down the name in Braille Fan Wei

8. Write down the name in Braille Wang Fei

9. Write down the name in Braille Xiao Shenyang

10. Write down the name in Braille Jay Chou

11. Match the pictures with the sentences A. In June 1904, Helen graduated from Radcliffe with honours. B. On March 3, 1887, Anne began teaching Helen. C. The documentary Helen Keller in Her Story won the Oscar for Best Feature-length Documentary Film at the 1955 Academy Awards D. On April 5, 1887, Helen grasped the purpose of language beside a water pump.

12. Underline these words in the text and find out their meanings. soul shine doll imitate spout flow mystery awaken joy eager sight 1.“Light! give me light!” was the wordless cry of my soul,… soul: the spiritual part of a person, opposite to the body, believed to exist after death 灵魂

13. 2….and the light of love shone on me on that very day. shine: to produce or reflect light, to be bright. 发光；反射； 照耀 Underline these words in the text and find out their meanings. soul shine doll imitate spout flow mystery awaken joy eager sight

14. 3….and give me a doll, when I played with it… doll: something in the shape of a person, often played by children. Underline these words in the text and find out their meanings. soul shine doll imitate spout flow mystery awaken joy eager sight

15. 4. I was simply imitating what the teacher did. imitate: to copy somebody or something. 模仿 Underline these words in the text and find out their meanings. soul shine doll imitate spout flow mystery awaken joy eager sight

16. 5. Someone was drawing water and the teacher placed my hand under the spout. spout: a pipe on a container that can give you water. ( 容器的 ) 嘴；壶嘴 Underline these words in the text and find out their meanings. soul shine doll imitate spout flow mystery awaken joy eager sight

17. 6. As the cool stream flowed over one hand she spelled into the other the word “water”, first slowly, then rapidly. flow: (water,gas) move steadly in one direction. 流动 Underline these words in the text and find out their meanings. soul shine doll imitate spout flow mystery awaken joy eager sight

18. Underline these words in the text and find out their meanings. soul shine doll imitate spout flow mystery awaken joy eager sight 7. Suddenly the mystery of language was fully made known to me. mystery: something that is difficult to understand or explain. 秘密，神秘

19. 8. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy and set it free. awaken: to wake up; to make some- body wake up. 醒来；唤醒 Underline these words in the text and find out their meanings. soul shine doll imitate spout flow mystery awaken joy eager sight

20. 9. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy and set it free. joy ： a feeling of great happiness. 高兴，愉快，喜悦 Underline these words in the text and find out their meanings. soul shine doll imitate spout flow mystery awaken joy eager sight

21. Underline these words in the text and find out their meanings soul shine doll imitate spout flow mystery awaken joy eager sight 10. I left the well-house eager to learn. eager: very happy or excited to do something 急切的，渴望的

22. 11. That was because I saw everything with the strange, new sight that had come to me. sight: a thing you see or you can see. 景象 Underline these words in the text and find out their meanings. soul shine doll imitate spout flow mystery awaken joy eager sight

23. Choose a proper word to fill in the blanks. soul shine doll imitate spout flow mystery awaken joy eager sight 1. When Sally reached the village, the _____ of poverty made her sad. 2. The boss with black glasses put his mouth to the _____ of the teapot and drank some tea. sight spout

24. 3. Our body may die, but our ____ will live forever life after life. 4. The river _____ to the east and never return. soul flows Choose a proper word to fill in the blanks. soul shine doll imitate spout flow mystery awaken joy eager sight

25. 5. A smart student is always ______ to learn new things. eager 6. The moon _____ brightly and we felt homesick in the mid-autumn day. shone Choose a proper word to fill in the blanks. soul shine doll imitate spout flow mystery awaken joy eager sight

26. 7. To her great ___, she got full marks. 8. Generally speaking, girls like ____ better than boys. joy dolls 9. I was _________ by a great noise, then the roof fell down. An earthquake happened. awakened Choose a proper word to fill in the blanks. soul shine doll imitate spout flow mystery awaken joy eager sight

27. 10. All of us want to know the ________ of the universe. mystery 11. A child learns his mother tongue by _________ what he hears. imitating Choose a proper word to fill in the blanks. soul shine doll imitate spout flow mystery awaken joy eager sight

29. Anne Sullivan 安妮 · 苏利文是美国著名的残障教育家，她因作 为海伦 · 凯勒的老师而出名，她们二人终生维持 着亦师亦友的关系。 Anne Mansfield Sullivan (1866-1936), was a teacher best known as the instructor and companion of Helen Keller. Sullivan was born in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts. She had visual ( 视 力的 ) problems as a child and in 1880 became a student at the Perkins Institute for the Blind in

30. Boston (now Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts). For a while at Perkins, she roomed with Laura Bridgman, the first deaf-blind person to be educated in the United States. In 1881 and 1887, Sullivan underwent surgery ( 手术 ) that restored most of her vision. In 1887, Sullivan went to Tuscumbia, to become the private teacher of Helen Keller. In 1887, Sullivan went to Tuscumbia, to become the private teacher of Helen Keller.

31. In 1900, she accompanied Helen to Radcliffe College and spent four years there translating lectures for Helen by manual ( 用手的 ) communication. In 1905, Sullivan married John Macy, then an editor and a Harvard University instructor. Sullivan Macy and Keller were lifelong companions who lived, worked, and traveled together. Sullivan Macy and Keller were lifelong companions who lived, worked, and traveled together.

32. By 1935, Sullivan Macy became completely blind just 1 year before her death. She died at age 70, with Keller holding her hand. Find a word or phrase from the text that matches each of the following meaning.

33. Read the text quickly and choose the best answer. Read the text quickly and choose the best answer. 1. Miss Sullivan was Helen’s _______. A. mother B. teacher C. student D. friend

34. Read the text carefully and choose the best answer in the right order. 2. Choose the right order according to the text. a.Helen imitated Sullivan. b. Helen felt like a ship in a heavy fog. c. Helen was eager to learn. d. Miss Sullivan came. e. Helen suddenly knew that everything has a name. A. b—c—d—a—e B. d—a—b—e—c C. b—d—a—e—c D. b—d—e—a—c

35. True or false ______ 1. Helen likes the ship in a heavy fog. ______ 2. Miss Sullivan spelled “d-o-l-l” into Helen’s hand and Helen suddenly understand. ______ 3. At first, Helen just imitated the spelling of words without understanding them. F F T

36. ______ 4. Helen realized that everything has a name after her teacher had been with her for several weeks. ______ 5. While water flowed over one of Helen’s Hands, Miss Sullivan spelled the word “water” into her other hand. T T

37. Helen’s life Before Sullivan cameAfter Sullivan came a ship in a heavy fog no light light of love shone on her that very day didn’t know everything has a name understood everything has a name didn’t know the mystery of language the mystery of language was finally made known to her

38. Work in groups and discuss the following questions. 1)Why did Helen say “I was like a ship in a heavy fog, and had no way of knowing where the harbour was.” in paragraph 1? She had no goal in her life then. She had no interest in the world. She was very unlucky then.

39. 2) How do you understand “light” in the first paragraph? On the one hand, She was blind and could see nothing. She didn’t know what “light” was. On the other hand, “light” means “love”. She could feel this “love” through her mind eyes.

40. 3) What did Helen mean by saying “That living word awakened my soul, give it light, hope, joy and set it free!” in para 3? To her, the word “water” became a dividing line between the darkness and bright days. With this living word, she knew that life was full of love, hope, joy and freedom. She opened a door to life through this word.

41. 4) In para 4, Helen wrote “Everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought.” What’s your understanding of “a new thought”? With the name of a thing, she came to a new look at the thing. She could recognize it and understand it better.

42. Read the last sentence of the text and share your understanding of Helen’s feeling with your partners. Read the passage on p16 first. What was her feeling? She was full of joy and hope.

43. Read the text aloud and then retell the story with the following words. like a ship in a heavy fog Miss Sullivan came imitated suddenly knew eager to learn

44. 拓展： 《我生活的故事》写于 1902 年，海伦 · 凯 勒以翔实生动的笔触记载了她的生活经 历。全书行文流畅，真实感人，是自传 文学中的佼佼者。

45. Helen Keller began writing The Story of My Life in 1902, when she was 22 years old and still a student at Radcliffe College, the sister school of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Story of My Life contains three parts. The first is Helen Keller’s autobiographical ( 自传的 ) account ( 叙述 ) of her life from childhood to the beginning of her studies at Radcliffe.

46. Part II contains Helen’s letters to her family and friends and documents her growth in thought and expression through her writing. The third part contains an account of Helen Keller’s life and education written by John Macy, based on the most part on the records and observations of Anne Sullivan. The Story of My Life has become an enduring ( 不朽的 ) classic of American The Story of My Life has become an enduring ( 不朽的 ) classic of American

47. literature. It was always to be the most popular of Helen Keller’s works, with many editions published throughout the years. Today, the book is available in more than 50 languages. In the book, she wrote, “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”

48. Translate the underlined part in the passage into Chinese. 世界上最美好的东西不会被看到或者 感觉到。它一定能用心感受的到。

49. Homework Exercise 5 on page 16.