1. Unit1 Living Well
Warming up & Reading

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

3. Types of Disabilities blind deaf mute Physically lame disabled
can’t see
deaf
can’t hear
mute
can’t speak
Physically
disabled
lame
can’t walk normally
paralytic
have no feeling in a certain part of the body
armless
legless
lose a certain part of the body
handless
dwarf
a very short and small person
hunchback
have a hump(驼峰) on the back
Mentally disabled
can’t behave properly or normally

4. Goddess of Mercy of a thousand hands

5. 中国残疾人艺术团的经典节目《千手观音》

7. Can you name some great
disabled people? And what
have they tried to do to
overcome these difficulties?

8. 肌萎缩性侧索硬化症 (Black holes theory)
Steven Hawking
England
肌萎缩性侧索硬化症 (Black holes theory)

9. Helen Keller
1882—1968
United Kingdom
blind, dumb and deaf.
a famous writer “Three days To See.”

10. Zhang Haidi: paralytic, in a wheelchair
writer ,translator

11. Beethoven
Deaf
Composed
Symphony of Fate

12. 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投标，申办 2008 Olympic Games and helped organize the Paralympics （残疾人运动会）

13. What do you learn from these disabled?
They’re broken in body but firm in spirit. （身残志坚）

14. Pre-reading

15. The purpose of the website：
1. To give ordinary young people with a disability the 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.

16. Reading
Marty’s Story
Let’s read Marty’s Story which is from the family village website. Then do the following exercises.

17. Marty’s Story

18. Skimming Match the main idea of each paragraph. Para.1:
A. How his life has become easier
B. The advantages of his disease
Para.2:
C. An introduction to Marty and his
muscle disease.
Para.3:
Para.4:
D. How his disability developed
E. Marty met a lot of difficulties
at school.
Para.5:

19. Live a rich and full life every day.
Para1:
Scanning:
A muscle disease
____ ____ _________ that makes
him very weak.
disease
Clumsy
_________and can’t ____ or ______stairs as quickly as other people.
run
climb
difficulties
at a time
motto
To live one day ___ _____ ______.
What does “live one day at a time” mean?
Live a rich and full life every day.

20. Para 2-3:
Why did the doctors cut out a piece of muscle from Marty’s leg?
Because they could cure the disease by cutting it out.
Because they wanted to use it as a specimen(标本).
Because they would transplant(移植) the new muscle.
Because they wanted to find out the cause of the disease.
2. What difficulties did Marty meet with
at school?

21. Work for a film that develops computer software when he grew up.
Para 4
What are the Marty’s ambition, achievement and hobby?
Marty’s ambition ______________________________________________________
2. Marty’s achievement
_________________________
3.Marty’s hobby________________
Work for a film that develops computer
software when he grew up.
Invented a computer football game
and a big company has decided to
buy it.
Movies,football matches;look after pets

22. 1. Don’t feel sorry for them. 2. Don’t make fun of them.
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.

23. We can see that Marty is a ____ person. Further understanding (2):
optimistic
optimistic, brave, stupid, pessimistic,
independent, strong-minded…
brave
independent
strong-minded

24. Choose the right answer.
1). Marty has ____ disease.
A. a mental B. a muscle
C. a brain D. a hand B.

25. 2). When Marty says “I am one in a million”, he really means _____. A
2). When Marty says “I am one in a million”, he really means _____. A. he is unique B. he has a rare disease C. he has a muscle disease D. he lives a hard but happy life B

26. 3). Which of the following is TRUE according to the text. _______ A
3). Which of the following is TRUE according to the text? _______ A. While at high school, not all Marty’s classmates accept him. B. A big company bought the computer game from Marty. C. The doctors know Marty’s disease well but they hide the truth. D. Marty looks quite different from others because of his disease. A

27. 4). Why did the doctors cut out a piece of muscle from Marty’s leg. A
4). Why did the doctors cut out a piece of muscle from Marty’s leg? A. Because they could cure the disease by cutting it out. B. Because they wanted to use it as a specimen (标本). C. Because they would transplant the new muscle. D. Because they wanted to find out the cause of the disease. D.

28. 5). From the passage we can infer that ____.
A. Marty asks others to feel sorry for him.
B. Marty never loses heart.
C. Marty is afraid of being made fun of.
D. Marty will not accept any
encouragement because he has grown
stronger. B.

29. 6). What’s Marty’s dream?
A. Being a famous football player and
representing his country in the
World Cup.
B. Being a doctor.
C. Being a college student.
D. Being a basketball player. A.

30. 8). What is the tone of the text. A. sad. B. happy. C. positive. D
8). What is the tone of the text? A. sad. B. happy. C. positive. D. negative. C

31. 1.What kind of person do you think
Marty is?
Marty seems to be a fairly positive person who considers he has a good life. He is realistic about his disability, but does not let this stop him doing as much as he can. He is psychologically strong, independent boy.

32. 2. What do you think is the most difficult thing that Marty has to deal with in his life?
Missing lots of school, not being able to run around and play sports like other boys at his age, people not understanding that he has a disability.

33. 3. What kind of thing does Marty do in order to make his life happy and satisfying?
Marty keeps busy doing things that do not require physical strength, like computer programming. He has friends with whom he can go to movies and football matches and he has lots of pets. He also studies hard.

34. 4. What can other people do to help Marty and others like him live a good life?
They can accept people with disabilities like Marty for who they are rather than focus on their disability. They can encourage them to live rich and full lives.

35. 5. Why has his fellow students’ conduct changed towards Marty?
Because they found that Marty was able to live as rich and full a life as everyone else.

36. 6.How would your life change if you
were to develop a muscle disease
like Marty's?

37. What’s the main idea of the text?
Though he is a ________ person, Marty never feels sorry for himself and he enjoys his life.
disabled

38. 1.Do you think disabled people can live
Let me try!
After-reading:
1.Do you think disabled people can live
a happy life as normal people now?

39. A free debate
For: Disabled people can live a happy life as normal people now
Against: Disabled people may not live a happy life as normal people now

40. Homework
Preview the next
part of the text.