Learning Plan for Reading (1st period)

Disabled? Not Me!

I. Goals of this period

1. Read the text and summarize the main idea of each part.

2. Understand the text by doing some exercises

3. Know that the disabled people are not weaker than the normal people except that they are disabled in physics.

II. Learning Procedures:

Step 1. Lead-in

1. Enjoy some pictures of disabled people and try to talk about who they are and what problems they have.

2. More questions:

① How many different types of disabilities do you know?

② Do you know of any famous people who are disabled? What do they do?

Step 2 Skimming

Read the whole text quickly and try to find the topic sentence of each paragraph.

Para.1 Disabled people need recognition more than sympathy and help.

Para.2 I know people are trying to help, but I wish they wouldn’t treat me as if I were a child.

Para.3 Living with disability is frustrating and challenging.

Para.4 Today there are more opportunities for disabled people to develop their potential, live a richer life and make a contribution to the society.

Para.5 Like all of us, disabled people also need inspiration and encouragement.

Para.6 About one third f the articles in Literature of Chinese blind children are written by disabled authors and blind children.

Step 3. Scanning

Scan the text and decide which of the following are true and which are false.

1.Zhong Xiaowen doesn’t wish to be treated as a little child. ( )

2. Xiaowen’s story serves as an example to show that physical disabilities can limit a person’s life.(F)

3. All the students in the Beijing Union University are not disable. ( )

4. The disabled people need both recognition and inspiration and encouragement. ( )

5. Literature of Chinese Blind Children is a great help in encouraging blind children to overcome difficulties and challenges. ( )

6. Ye Zijie’s story is mentioned to show how disabled people write articles for newspapers and magazines. ( )

7. In 2000 Ye Zijie was invited to London and became the first Chinese to study abroad. ( )

8. It might be frustrating and challenging to live with disability. ( )

Step 4. Careful reading

Read the text again and choose the best answer:

1. By the first sentence in Para. 1, Zhong Xiaowen really means __ _.

A. her classmates actually look down upon her

B. she wants to be treated as an independent person

C. disabled students suffer much more hardships

D. she has grown into an adult and is no longer a child

2. The magazine Literature of Chinese Blind Children helps disabled people by ______.

A. providing inspiration and encouragement B. offering free books and magazines

C. teaching them to read and write D. sending gifted disabled students to study abroad

3. Which is true about the special education college in the Beijing Union University? ( )

A. Only disabled students can study in the college.

B. Students can learn to take care of the disabled and will work as nurses after graduation.

C. Its main aim is to help people understand what difficulties the disabled many have in their life.

D. It teaches people with and without disabilities to live together and learn from each other.

4. This text is mainly about ______.

A. what makes people disabled B. how the disabled live a normal life

C. what is to be done to assist disabled people D. how physical disabilities limit a person’s life

5. We can infer from the text that ______.

A. the disabled are useless B. we should look down upon the disabled

C. the disabled can do something as well as or better than normal people if they are helped

D. there is no opportunity for the disabled to make a contribution to society

Step 5 Discussion

What have you learned from the text?