Unit 1Living wellPeriod 1Warming Up，Prereading and Reading设计者：韩晓莉知识目标1Get students to learn the useful words and expressions in this unit.2Help students to learn about disabilities and life of the disabled.能力目标1Let students read the passage Martys Story to develop their reading ability.2Enable students to know that people with disabilities can also live well.情感目标1By talking about disabilities and life of the disabled，make sure students can learn some positive stories of the disabled.2Help them understand more about how challenging life can be for the disabled.3Develop students sense of cooperative learning.教学重点Getstudents inspired by positive stories of the people with disabilities. 教学难点1Develop students reading ability.2Help students understand the difficulties the disabled have to overcome.教学方法1Taskbased teaching and learning.2Cooperative learning.教学过程Step 1Warming up1Warming up by discussingFirst 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? Step 2PrereadingAskstudents to read the short paragraph in Prereading carefully and find out the purpose of the website “Family Village”Step 3Reading1SkimmingGive 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.2Scanning for detailed informationAsk students to read the passage carefully to locate the detailed information.(1)First ask students to read paragraph one and complete the chart below.DiseaseDifficultiesMotto(2)Next read paragraphs two and three and choose the best answer.Why did the doctors cut out a piece of muscle from Martys leg?ABecause they could cure the disease by cutting it out.BBecause they wanted to use it as a specimen(标本)CBecause they would transplant(移植) the new muscle.DBecause they wanted to find out the cause of the disease.(3)Read paragraph four and answer the following questions：What is Martys ambition?What is Martys achievement?What is Martys hobby?(4)Ask students to find Martys advice in paragraph five.Step 4Consolidation1Ask students to read the whole passage and choose the best answers.(1)Which of the following is false?AAlthough there are a few students who look down upon him，Marty never gets annoyed.BMarty leads a meaningful life and does not feel sorry for being disabled.CMarty only spends time with his pets and never with his friends.DMartys disability has made him more independent.(2)From the passage we can infer that _.AMarty asks others to feel sorry for himBMarty never loses heartCMarty is afraid of being made fun of DMarty will not accept any encouragement because he has grown stronger psychologically2Ask students to work together to write a mini biography for Marty according to the text.My mini biographyNameStatusHealthInterests and HobbiesAmbitionMotto3.Discuss in pairs to get the main idea of the passage by filling in the blanks.Though he is a _ person，Marty never feels _ for himself and he _ his life.Step 5Discussion1Ask students to discuss the following questions in small groups.(1)How did Martys feeling changed over time?(2)What kind of person do you think Marty is？Can you use adjectivewords to describe him?Step 6Homework1Retell Martys Story according to the mini biography.2Surf the Internet to learn more about the life of disabled people.