Unit 1 Living well
教學(xué)方法
1.task－based teaching and learning.
2.cooperative learning.
教學(xué)過(guò)程
step 1 warming up
1.warming up by discussing
first ask students to talk about people with a mental or physical disability to see how much they know about disabilities.then show some photos of people with disabilities.students will be asked to discuss the following questions in small groups.
do you know any famous people who are disabled?
what difficulties do they have to overcome in daily life?
what have they achieved?
suggested answers：
steven hawking has a muscle disease，but he makes great contributions 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 the pictures and read what these people have achieved even though they each have a disability.next，work with partners to talk about what disability they might have according to each description below the picture.
suggested answers：
rosalyn is in a wheelchair.she has walking difficulty.
richard has difficulty with eyesight，so he can't read the questions or write the answers for his college entrance exams.
sally has hearing problems (though not deaf as she can still understand loud speech in the cinema).
gao qiang was born with down's syndrome，which is a mental disability.some doun's syndrome down's sufferers have made a good career as actors.
step 2 pre－reading
ask students to read the short paragraph in pre－reading carefully and find out the purpose of the website “family village”.
suggested answers：
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 disabilities.
step 3 reading
1.skimming
give students 2 minutes；ask them to read the passage fast to fill in the blanks：
sum up the main idea of each paragraph：
paragraph 1：a(n)______ to marty and his muscle disease.
paragraph 2：how the disease ______.
paragraph 3：marty met a lot of ______ at school.
paragraph 4：how his life has become ______.
paragraph 5：the ______ of his disease.
suggested answers：
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.