人教版高二Unit 17 Disabilities
Period 1 Let’s listen and speak!
Goals
◆ Talking about disability.
◆ Practice talking about ability and inability.
◆ Improve students’ listening and speaking ability.
Procedures
Leading in: by discussing the pictures.
Hello, everyone. Look at the three pictures first and discuss the following questions:
1. What is his or her name?
2. Why is he or she famous?
3. What works did he or she write?
4. What can we learn from them?
Task 1: Looking and discussing.
Look at the first four pictures and discuss what they tell us:
1. Try to list the difficulties and dangers you might face if you were in a wheelchair or blind.
2. Try to offer some solutions to make the streets safer and better for the disabled.
Task 2: Listening and ticking.
Talk about the picture in this part to warm up first:
1. Listen to the tape and answer the three questions.

How did John’s parents help him in the morning?
What was wrong with John’s house?
How did John’s family change the house?

2. Listen again, tick the obstacles John mentions and explain why they make his life difficult.
3. Work in pairs and think of more creative ideas to solve the problem John describes.

What are John’s obstacles? Why do they make his life difficult? How can you solve this problem?
items Yes? No?
sidewalks
cars
elevators
Bikes
Escalators
Stairs
Fast food restaurants
parks

Task 3: Speaking and talking.

Situations Difficulties Solutions
Blind; visit a friend on the other side of the town; change bus once
Deaf; football players; join the school’s football team; learn English
In a wheelchair; go shopping; eat at a restaurant; go to a cinema; several floors

Closing up by having a discussion.
Hi, everyone. We can see it is not easy for the disabled people to lead a normal life. Suppose waking up tomorrow morning, you suddenly find you were unable to see, speak, hear or walk. Then how would you feel and what would you do?
Homework
Write a short passage about a disabled person in your family, your school or your neighborhood.


Unit 17 Period 2 Let’s read!
(DISABLED? NOT ME)!
Goals
◆ Get students to care more about disabled people.
◆ Better their reading skills through various reading activities.
◆ Enable the students to master more words and expressions.
Procedures
Leading in by talking about pictures.
Attention, everyone. Please look at the screens and see several pictures. (about disabled players at the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games). Then discuss them in pairs and tell me what you think of them.
Task 1: Fast reading for general ideas.
1. Skim the test and find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.
Topic sentence of each paragraph
Para. 1 I know people are trying to help, but I wish they wouldn’t treat me as if I were a child.
Para. 2 Today there are more opportunities for disabled people to develop their potential, live a richer life and make a contribution to the society.
Para. 3 Disabled people need recognition, more than sympathy and help.
Para. 4 Like all of us, disabled people also need inspiration and encouragement.
Para. 5 About one third of the articles in Literature of Chinese Blind Children are written by disabled authors and blind children.
Para. 6 Living with disability is frustrating and challenging.
2. Scan the text and decide whether the following sentences are true or false.
(1) Zhong Xiaowen doesn’t wish to be treated as a little child.
(2) Xiaowen’s story serves as an example to show that physical disabilities can limit a person’s life.
(3) All the students in the
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