四、Teaching procedure

　　Step1．Lead in?

　　Introduce the topic of the disabled through questions .Ask Ss to watch films and play a guessing game to know the achievements of the disabled??.

　　1）Ask students questions

　　Do you know her name? What’s her disability? What’s she famous for?

　　Play a video for students to watch. (同時播放《千手觀音》片斷)

　　2）A guessing game

　　Who are they? What are their disabilities? What’re their achievements?

　　Show the pictures of?Zhouzhou,?Zhang Haidi, Steven Hawking.

　　Step2. Warming up

　　Match the four characters from the textbook with their achievements. Get them to know different difficulties with the disabled.

　　Gao Qiang 1. represented her country in an athletics competition

　　and won a gold medal in the 50-meetre race.

　　Barry 2. owns a personal website on the Internet.

　　Sally 3. played a major part in the school play; takes singing

　　and dancing lessons after school.

　　Rada 4. passed the university entrance exam; will train to be a teacher.

　　Step3. Pre-reading

　　By introducing “Family village”，ask the Ss to tell the purpose of the website: not only to help the disabled but?non-disabled people

　　1. To give ordinary young people with a disability the chance to tell their personal stories.?????

　　2. Other disabled people also find the website beneficial.

　　3. The website is also a way for non-disabled people to understand more about how challenging life can be for people with disabilities.

　　Step4 . Reading

　　Text is about Marty, who has a muscle disease ,but holds a positive attitude to life. First, ask Ss to look through the text and fill in the chart .

　　1．Scanning

　　Through the activities ,Ss will get to know Marty well. Meanwhile, They master the ability of scanning .

　　Read Marty’s story and fill in the chart.

　　2. Detailed reading