第 1 页 共 197 页 人教版高中英语选修七全册名师教案设计
Unit One Living Well
Period One Warming up, Pre-reading and reading
Knowledge aims:
1.Get students to learn the useful new words and expressions: eyesight, ambition,
disabled, beneficial, in other words, clumsy, microscope, out of breath, absence,
stupid, fellow, annoyed, all in all, industry, tank, make fun of, encouragement, adapt
to.
2. Help students to learn about disabilities and life of the disabled
Teaching important and difficult points:
Get students inspired by positive stories of the people with disabilities.
Develop students’ reading ability.
Help students understand the difficulties the disabled have to overcome.
Vocabulary:
hearing; clumsy (笨拙的); eyesight; dictation; certificate (证书); exit; abolish
(废除, 废止); companion (同伴, 伴侣); suitable (适合的, 适宜的); handy (方便的,
有用的); dignity (尊严, 高贵的品质); community (社区, 社团); literature (文学, 著作, 文献); resign (辞职, 辞去职位); conduct (行为，品行); firm; fellow; outgoing
(外向的, 友好的, 外出的); ambition (雄心, 野心); ambitious (有雄心的, 有野心的); absence (缺席, 不在某处); absent; beneficial (有益的, 受益的); benefit;
assistance (协助, 援助); assistant; congratulate; congratulation (祝贺, 贺词);
graduation (毕业, 毕业生); adequate (足够的, 充分的); adequately (足够地, 充分地); disability (伤残, 无能); annoy (使….不悦, 惹恼); annoyed; access (方法, 通路,
可接近性); accessible (可接近的, 可进入的, 可使用的); approval (赞成, 认可);
approve (赞成, 认可); approving (赞成的, 认可的); profit; profitless (无利益的);
profitable (可获利的, 有利可图的); bump into (撞上, 不期而遇); adapt to (适合);
cut out (切去, 省略); out of breath (上气不接下气); all in all (总而言之); sit around
(闲坐着); feel sorry for (同情某人); as well as; in many ways (在很多方面); make
fun of (取笑); never mind; resign from (从…..辞职); with the assistance of (在…..的
第 2 页 共 197 页 协助下); all the best (祝贺一路顺利); have access to (有权进入, 接近, 使用); meet
with; one in million (凤毛麟角, 稀罕的人和事); in other words
Grammar: The use of infinitive.
Step 1 Warming up
1. Warming up by discussing:
Ask students to talk about people with a mental or physical disability to see how
much they know about disabilities. Then show them some photos of people with
disabilities by discussing the following questions.
1) Do you know any famous people who are disabled?
2) What difficulties do they have to overcome in their daily life?
3) What have they achieved?
(Suggested answers:
Steven Hawking has a muscle disease, but he made great contribution 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 some pictures and read what these people have
achieved even though they each have disability. Next work with partners to talk about
what disability they might have according to each description below the picture
1) Rosalyn is in a wheelchair, she has walking difficulty.
2) Richard has difficulty with eyesight, so he can’t read the questions or write the
answers for his college entrance exams.
3) Sally has hearing problems (though not deaf as she can still understand loud
speech in the cinema.)
4) Gao Qiang was born with Down’s Syndrome, which is a mental disability.
Some Down’s Syndrome Down’s Sufferers have made a good career as actors.
Step 2 Pre-reading
第 3 页 共 197 页 Ask students to read the short paragraph in Pre-reading carefully and find out the
purpose of the website “Family Village”.
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 disabled.
Step 3 Reading
1. Skimming: Ask students to read the passage fast just to sum up the main idea
of each paragraph:
Paragraph 1: An introduction to Marty and his muscle disease.
Paragraph 2: How the disease developed / started.
Paragraph 3: Marty met a lot of difficulties at school.
Paragraph 4: How his life has become easier.
Paragraph 5: The advantages of his disease.
2. Scanning: Ask students to read the passage carefully to locate detailed
information.
1) First ask students to read paragraph one and complete the chart below.
Disease A muscle disease that makes him very weak.
Difficulties He can’t run or climb as quickly as other people. Sometimes hi is
clumsy and drop things or bump into furniture.
Motto Live one day at a time.
2) Neat read paragraph two and three to answer the following questions.
Why did the doctors cut out a piece of muscle from Marty’s leg?
_______________________________________________________.
3) Read the paragraph four and answer the following questions.
What is Marty’s ambition?
_______________________________________________________.
