Unit 20 Disability

Lesson 77 Dialogue

Teaching aims:

1. Learn and master the following:

1) Words

disability, pleasure, quarter, tourist,

hotel, seldom, visitor, wheelchair,

hopefully,

2) Phrases

dream of, come true, even though (if)

3) Everyday English:

It’s a beautiful day today.

It’s a bit … today, isn’t it?

Hopefully tomorrow will turn out fine.

So far as I know, tomorrow should be fine, too.

You said that you hoped …

I hope so. Have a good day.

Teaching focuses & special difficulties:

1. Learn the ways of talking about the weather.

2. Master the difference between ‘manage to do sth.’ and ‘try to do sth.’

3. Master the usages of the words and phrases mentioned above.

4. How to tell the difference between ‘manage to do sth.’ and ‘try to do sth.’

Teaching methods:

1. Listening-and-answering activity to help the students to go through with the dialogue.

2. Pair work or individual work to make every student participate in class.

Teaching aids:

1. A tape-recorder.

2. A projector.

3. The blackboard.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Greetings & Talk Show

(Greet the whole class usual.)

Step 2. Revision and Lead-in

Check the homework.

T: OK. So much for … Now, who can tell me the names of the most important local tourist places in our city / in your hometown?

S: Let me try. In my hometown, there are some tourist places. They are the Square Memorial Pavilion (四牌樓), the Memorial Hall to Zheng Banqiao (鄭板橋紀(jì)念館), the Former Residence of Zheng Banqiao (鄭板橋故居), the Former Residence of Liu Xizai (劉熙載故居), Shangfang Temple (上方寺), the Tomb of Shi Nai’an (施耐庵墓)…

T: Good. And who can tell us how to get to these places?

S: We can get to … by car / bus / train / bike (bicycle). [But on foot.]

T: Very good. Now, look at the picture on the screen.

T: The old gentleman is in a wheelchair. Can you guess the meaning of ‘wheelchair’?

Ss: Yes, it means ‘輪椅’ in Chinese.

T: Good. Now, tell me if you’re in a wheelchair, would you be able to get to those places of interest?

S1: I can go to … by myself / on my own, because there’s no step. It’s easy for me to get there.

T: Who has different answers?

S2: I can go to … with the help of my friends. They can carry me up there, because there aren’t many steps there.

S3: I can’t go to …, because it’s high up on the top of the hill. What a pity! I can only look at it from far away.

T: OK. Now, please look at the picture, again. What can you see in the picture?

S4: I can see a boy and an old gentleman in a wheelchair.

T: What are they doing?

S5: They are talking.

T: Can you guess what they are talking about?

S6: Maybe they’re talking about going to some place, because I can see the boy is pointing to some place / showing the old gentleman the way.

T: Good. Do you want to know what is exactly happening?

Ss: Yes.

T: OK. Today, we’re going to learn Lesson 77. Let’s do some vocabulary work first.

A. Which word is explained?

1. disability - an illness, injury, or condition that makes it difficult for someone to do the things that other people do

2. pleasure - a feeling of happiness or enjoyment

3. quarter - one of four equal parts of something;

4. tourist - someone who visits a place for pleasure and does not live there

B. Explain each of the words in simple and easy English.

1. hotel – a place where you pay to stay when you are away from home

2. seldom – not often

3. visitor – someone who visits a person or place

4. wheelchair - a chair with wheels used by someone who cannot walk

Step 3. Dialogue

T: Now, listen to the tape carefully and answer the following questions:

1. What place is the tourist going to visit tomorrow? (The Summer Palace.)

2. Is it difficult for the tourist to travel around? (No, he seldom has any difficulties.)

(Play the tape for students to listen to.)

T: Who can answer these questions?

S1: He wants to go to the Summer Palace.

T: Now who can answer the second one?

S2: No, he seldom has any difficulties.

Or: Listening comprehension:

Now, listen to the tape carefully and choose the correct answers.

1. What does this dialogue take place?

A. In the street.

B. In the hall of the hotel.

C. In the Summer Palace.

D. Outside the hotel.

2. What is the main difficulty the tourist will meet if he goes to visit the Summer Palace?

A. To get to the Summer Palace.

B. To visit all the buildings except the temples on top of the hill.

C. To climb the hill.

D. To boat on the lake.

3. In China the foreign tourist _______.

A. has a lot of difficulties

B. has no difficulties

C. can enjoy all the seeing

D. can enjoy many of the sights

Suggested answers: 1 – 3 D C D

T: Right. Please sit down. Now, read the dialogue carefully and silently and then answer and answer in pairs.

(Show the following on the screen.)

Ask your partner:

1. what Sun Yao and the tourist are talking about.

2. why the tourist travels in a wheelchair.

3. what the weather is like today.

4. what place the tourist is going to visit tomorrow.

5. whether it is difficult for him to travel around.

Suggested answers:

1. They are talking about traveling.

2. He is a disabled person.

3. It’s a bit windy.

4. The Summer Palace.

5. No, he seldom has any difficulties.

T: Good. Your answers are all correct. But when you are reading the dialogue, you may find some difficult points. Now, look at the screen. I’ll explain them to you. Listen carefully and take some notes if necessary.

Language points:

1. Hopefully tomorrow will turn out fine.

= It is hoped that it will become fine tomorrow. e.g.

Hopefully it won’t rain.

Hopefully we’ll win.

Hopefully our guests will be here by 9:30.

2. turn out – to prove to be (in the result), to happen to be in the end e.g.

The mid-term examination turned out (to be) easy.

It turned out (to be) a fine day.

It turned out that the message sent to him was not correct.

3. dream vt. vi. n.

(1) vt. e.g.

I dreamed a terrible dream last night.

I dreamed that I was in a forest.

(2) vi. dream of (doing) sth. e.g.

She has been dreaming of becoming a film star.

I never dream of success like this.

(3) n.

My dream has come true.

I had a terrible dream last night.

4. come true – to be real, to happen e.g.

His ideas which seemed so strange in those days have come true.

5. manage vt. & vi. to be able to do sth. difficult

(1) vi. e.g.

- Can I carry the box for you?

- No, thanks. I can manage.

(2) vt. e.g.

He managed to escape from the fire.

The room was very dirty, but he managed to clean it.

He tried to escape from the fire, but was badly hurt.

He managed to escape from the fire.

= He tried to escape from the fire, and finally succeeded.

6. as + adj. / adv. + as possible (= as … as one can) e.g.

You should finish your homework as early as possible.

7. even though = even if e.g.

We like English very much, even though it is rather difficult for us.

We have determined to visit the place of interest even if / though it rains tomorrow.

T: You should pay attention to the word ‘manage’. It can be used as a transitive verb as well as an intransitive verb. When it is used transitively, it can be followed by an infinitive. You should pay more attention to the difference between ‘manage to do sth.’ and ‘try to do sth.’. The expression ‘try to do sth.’ means that the doer (the subject) just tried, but we don’t know if he / she succeeded or not in the end. But if you use ‘manage to do sth.’, that means the subject tried and succeeded in the end. Are you clear?

Ss: Yes.

T: OK. That’s all for the language points in the dialogue. In this dialogue, there are some very important words and phrases that you have to pay attention to. Now, let’s do an exercise about them. Look at the screen, please. After you finish, you can discuss in pairs.

Ex. 2 on Page 108.

Suggested answers:

1. turn out 2. tourist / visitor; round 3. dreamt / dreamed of; come true 4. Hopefully 5. manage 6. by 7. determined; even though 8. as far as

Step 4. Practice

T: Good. Besides these words and phrases, there’re some important everyday English in the dialogue. You must practise them a lot so that you can use them freely.

T: Now, just imagine you meet a foreign tourist outside a hotel in our town. Have a similar dialogue with your partner. (The students practise for a while and then the teacher asks two pairs to act out their dialogues.)

Suggested answers:

A: It’s cloudy today, isn’t it?

B: Yes, it is. I hope tomorrow will turn out fine.

A: Are you a tourist here?

B: That’s right. I’m traveling to the East Lake tomorrow.

A: Are you? Is it difficult for you to travel around in a wheelchair?

B: I seldom have any difficulties. Well, can you tell me something about the East Lake?

…

Cloze test:

One day Sun Yao met a disabled t_________ outside a hotel in Beijing, who was traveling r_______ the country. He told Sun Yao that he had always d_______ ____ coming to China, and now his dream had c_____ _____. He said that he s________ had any difficulties. Sometimes he wasn’t able to get i_____ every building because there were too many steps. He enjoyed himself as much as possible, e_____ ________ he couldn’t see everything. He planned to visit the Summer Palace the n_____ day.

Suggested answers:

tourist, round, dreamt / dreamed of, come true, seldom, into, even though / if, next

Step 5. Summary & Homework

T: In this class, we have learnt a dialogue about disabled people. We have also learnt some important words and expressions:

turn out (to be) + adj.

that – clause

dream vt. vi. & n.

come true,

manage vt. & vi.

as … as possible = as … as one can,

even though = even it

After class, you should read the dialogue over and over to master the everyday English in it and finish Ex. 3 on Page 108. I’ll check the dialogue you make next class. OK. That’s all for today. See you tomorrow.