Period 3
(一)明确目标
1. Learn more about the present situation of the disabled people in the world. Get the students to have right understanding of the disabled people.
2. Grammar study --Inversion.
(二)整体感知
1. Get a general idea by discussing the topic offered on page 46. Part 2 Discussion.
2. Learn inverted sentences.
（三）教学过程
Step 1 General Understanding
Read the text by following the tape and answer the questions:
(1) How many disabled people are there in China today?
[There are about 50 million people with disabilities in China today.]
(2) What is the new government programme about?
[The new government programme is designed to help disabled people.]
Step 2 Ask the students to do the following True or False questions.
1. Professor Stephen Hawking who gives a talk in a lecture hall of a university uses a very strange voice because the sound he makes is produced by a computer and a voice box.
2. When Professor Stephen Hawking answers the questions, he always does it very quickly because a computer can help him to do so.
3. Many people come to his lecture only because they want to see how a man who can not speak uses a computer to produce the sound.
4. Professor Stephen Hawking became disabled because he had a disease of the brain.
5. The book written by him with the title '”On History of Time" might be about how he continued with his research and his writing even ff he could only move the fingers of one hand.
6. The passage lists many examples of successful people with disabilities; saying that the disabled people can be successful in many ways except in the fields of s tmrts.
7. Those who have the wrong attitude towards people with disabilities may not realize that it is probable that one day they will end up with a disability.
8. The reading passage strongly demands that the government should design more programmes help disabled people, for ordinary people can do nothing to help them.
Answers: 1 ~ 4 TFFF 5 ~ 8 FFTF
Step 3
Discuss the following in pairs and then ask one or two groups to do state their opinions.
What should we do to help people with disabilities in such eases as:
1. If we axe organizing an event....
2. If the blind people want to cross the road or just walk from one place to another.
3. If we see someone in wheelchairs doing shopping....:
(四)总结、扩展
Step 4 Main idea
Part I (Paragraphs 1 ~ 2)
Explain what the disability really is and the fact that some people have wrong attitude towards people with disabilities.
Part 2 (Paragraph 3)
Make suggestions how we should treat the disabled people properly and what needs to be done to make life easier for the disabled people,
Part 3 (Paragraph 4)
The Chinese government has done a lot to help disabled people in the last years.
Step 5 Language focus
1. Some new words and expressions.
end up with: in the end they Mil...
高中二年级英语Disability Period 2