1. Warming up & Reading

2. How many different types of disabilities do you know?

3. disabled people
lame
blind
deaf-mute
paralytic

4. disabled people
legless
handless
armless
hunchbacked

5. Can you name some great disabled people?
What have they done to overcome these difficulties?

6. Steven Hawking England 肌萎缩性侧索硬化症 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Speech impaired, can only move one of his fingers
physicist / mathematician, research into the beginning of space, matter and time.
(Black holes theory)

7. Beethoven ( )
deaf
Composed
Symphony of Fate

8. Helen Keller 1882—1968 United Kingdom blind, deaf and dumb
learn to read Braille (盲文), to speak and write.
Finish the studies in Radcliff College.
educator and writer

9. Sanglan (桑兰) China.
a famous gymnast (体操运动员). She hurt herself seriously in a competition and can’t stand. She helped to bid 2008 Olympic Games and helped organize the Paralympics (残疾人运动会).

10. And more… （ 胡一舟） 1978--- ,China
Hu yizhou
（ 胡一舟）
,China
some problems in his brain. His IQ is only 30.
A famous conductor (指挥家）

11. Discussion
Look at the pictures on Page 1, and discuss what their disability might be.
The following list might help you .
mental disability learning difficulty
hearing problem difficulty with eyesight
brain injury loss of an arm or a leg
Down’s Syndrome infantile paralysis
walking difficulty

12. Zhang Haidi: paralytic,
in a wheelchair；
writer, translator

13. Pre-reading

14. The “Family Village” is a _______.
The purpose of the website：
To give ordinary young people with a disability a chance to share their stories with others.

15. Reading
MARTY'S STORY
Let’s read Marty’s Story which is from the family village website.
Then do the following exercises.

16. Skimming Sum up the main idea of each paragraph.P3
How his life has become easier.
The advantages of his disease.
Para. 4
Para.5
Marty met a lot of difficulties at school.
Para. 3
An introduction to Marty and his muscle disease.
Para. 1
Para. 2
How his disability developed.

17. Scanning Para.1 __ ______ _______ disease makes him very weak.
______ and can’t ___ or _____ stairs as quickly as other people.
difficulties
motto
live one day __ _ ____.
What does “live one day at a time” mean?
Live a rich and full life every day.

18. Paras.2&3
Why did the doctors cut out a piece of muscle from Marty’s leg?
Because they wanted to find out the cause of the disease.

19. Para.4 What are the Marty’s ambitions, achievements and hobbies?
2) Marty’s achievements
______________________________________________
3) Marty’s hobbies
work for a film that develops computer software when he grows up.
invented a computer football game and a big company has decided to buy it.
movies, football matches; look after pets.

20. Para.5 Marty’s advice : 1. Don’t feel sorry for them.
2. Don’t make fun of them.
3. Don’t ignore them.
4. Accept them for who they are.
5. Encourage them to live as
rich and full a life as you do.

21. Marty is a/an ____ person.
We can see that
Marty is a/an ____ person.
optimistic, brave, positive, active,
independent, strong-minded…

22. 根据课文内容用合适的单词填空。
　 Marty Fielding suffered from muscle ______ when he was 10, which sometimes made him ______ and drop things or bump into furniture.

23. The doctors don’t know exactly what is wrong with him, so they don’t know ______ to make him better. But he has to learn to _________ to his disability. When some people cannot accept him for who he is, he doesn’t get _______ . He just ______ them.

24. All ______all, he has a good life
All ______all, he has a good life. His ________is to work in the computer ________when he grows up. He has a very happy life and doesn’t have time to sit around ______ sorry for himself. He is ______to have found many things he can do really well.　

25. In many ways his disability has made him grow stronger and more _______________. He has had to work hard to live a ____________ life, but it has been _________ it. From him, we can learn more: Just having a___________ doesn’t mean your life is not ____________.

26. So don’t feel sorry for the ___________ or make ___________ of them and don’t ignore them either. Just accept them for who they are, and give them _________________to live as rich and full a life ____________ you do.　

27. After-reading
What do you learn from these disabled?

28. They’re disabled in body but firm in spirit.