The Second PeriodTeaching Aims:1.Learn and master the following words and expressions:get around(=get about),fair,guidance,gifted,assist,cooperate,recognition,sympathy,encouragement,productive,visual,impair,motivate,disappointing,adjust to,get used to2.Train the students reading ability.Teaching Important Points:1.Improve the students reading ability.2.Enable the students to understand the text better.3.How to get the students to master the useful expressions.Teaching Difficult Points:Master the following sentence structures:1.studying together with their disabled classmates is both challenging and rewarding. Living with disability is frustrating and challenging.2.I am and get used to the fact that while I may not beTeaching Methods:1.Discussion to help the students know something about the disabled.2.Fast reading to get the general idea of the text.3.Questioning-and-answering activity to help the students go through the whole passage.4.Pair work or individual work to make every student work in class.Teaching Aids:1.a tape recorder2.a multimediaTeaching Procedures:CStep Greetings and Revision(Greet the whole class as usual.)T:Yesterday we learned what difficulties and dangers the disabled might face and how to help them in our daily life.Imagine you are disabled.Whod like to describe the situation(If you were blind/deaf etc.)and tell us how you would deal with them.S:Ill try.(All the others listen carefully.)T:Well done.No matter what difficulties he may meet with,we all hope he can enjoy himself.CStep Lead-in and Pre-readingT:Yeah.We know people with disabilities may have lots of difficulties in their lives,but many of them are determined.They can overcome any difficulty.Please look at the three questions on the screen and discuss them in groups.(Show the following on the screen.)1.Do you know anyone who is disabled?How does he or she deal with the disability?2.Do you know of any famous people who are disabled?What do they do?3.Should disabled students be allowed to go to college?Should they get any extra help?Why or why not?(Teacher gives students five minutes to discuss and collects their answers.)Suggested answers:1.Yes.I know a person with disability.He has learnt to do many things without help.He can take care of himself at home,but getting around in the city in a wheelchair is often frustrated.He loves reading stories of young disabled people who have overcome great difficulties.2.Yes,I do.Beethoven was a great musician,Helen Keller was a great American writer,and Zhang Haidi is also a writer.3.Yes,they should.Because there are many gifted disabled students,they can make a contribution to the society.They should get some extra help in their everyday activities.No,they shouldnt.Because they need recognition,more than sympathy and help.CStep ReadingT:OK.Today well read a text “Disabled?Not me!”and know something more about it.I think you are interested in it.Please turn to Page 17.Read the passage quickly to get the general idea and answer the questions on the screen.(Teacher shows the questions on the screen.)1.Whats the trouble of Zhong Xiaowen?2.How does she get around?3.Whats the teachers aim in the special college?4.What do the articles in Literature of Chinese Blind Children talk about?5.How does Zijie like the magazine?(Teacher gives students enough time to read the text and collects their answers.)Suggested answers:1.Xiaowen was born without the ability to use her legs and she has no feeling below the waist.2.She uses a wheelchair to get around.3.Their aim is to help disabled students understand that they can play a valuable role within society.4.The articles are often about disabled people who have overcome challenges and difficulties and learnt to live a meaningful and productive life.5.He loves the magazine very much.He thinks it is very important for them to know that someone far away is also struggling as they are.T:Now read the passage again and try to get as much information as you can.CStep Study for Language PointsT:Now youve known the general idea of the passage.Please look at the screen.Ill explain something to you.(Show the following on the screen.)a.treat vt. treat sb. well(badly)e.g.Dont treat me as a child.Which doctors are treating her for her illness?b.ability n. the ability to do,a man of abilitye.g.Man has the ability to speak.c.make a contribution toe.g.We must do something useful and make a contribution to our country.d.launch vt.launch a man-made satellitelaunch a new enterpriselaunch threats against sb.e.play a role(in,within)e.g.He played a leading role in a film.f.bothande.g.Both you and I are students.He both fears and hates at once.g.studying together with their disabled classmates is both challenging and rewarding.Living with disability is frustrating and challenging.In these two s