Listening task
&Reading and Writing taskWorkbook(P50-52)
Listening task
&Reading and Writing taskWorkbook(P50-52)
Warming up
BrailleBlinded by an accident in his early childhood, 15 year old Louis Braille (1809-1852) invented a system of reading and writing by touch.A Braille cell consists of six raised dots. By arranging the dots in various combinations, 64 different patterns cam be formed.Braille, a true alphabet, is read by moving the hand from left to right along each line. Readers average about 104-125 words per minute. Some can read 250 words by using both hands.
BrailleBlinded by an accident in his early childhood, 15 year old Louis Braille (1809-1852) invented a system of reading and writing by touch.A Braille cell consists of six raised dots. By arranging the dots in various combinations, 64 different patterns cam be formed.Braille, a true alphabet, is read by moving the hand from left to right along each line. Readers average about 104-125 words per minute. Some can read 250 words by using both hands.
Listening task
1. What country did Louis Braille come from?
He came from France.2. What disability did he have? He was completely blind.
Listen to Paul’s talk about Louis
Braille. Then answer the questions.
3. What did books for the blind look like
when Louie was a boy?
They were ordinary books with letters
raised up off the page.
4. What were the two problems with the
books for the blind?
The letters were huge and difficult to
read, and the books were very expensive.
5. What invention gave Louie the
idea for his system?
A system for soldiers to send and
receive messages in the dark.
6. What advantages do you think
Louis’s system has?
I think Braille system has the
advantage of being easy to learn, and
so it is easy to produce books of
normal size. It helps make blind
people independent because they can
read as much as sighted people do.
Year Age Event
1809 ______________
1813 4 _________________________
1819 10 _________________________
1821 12 _________________________
____________________________________________
1824 15 _________________________
__________________________
1827 18 _________________________
1852 43 _________________________
Born Became completely blindSent to school in Pairs
Heard a soldier talk about a system consisting of a raised system of dots
Completed the Braille system of touch reading
First Braille book published
died
Reading and writing task
从懂事那天起,我就面临只能活 28 岁的无情命运。 10 岁 , 我只能举起一个枕头;12 岁 , 我只能拄着棍儿走路。 14 岁 , 我走不出院子;16 岁 , 完全不能走了 , 只能直直地站着。
《假如我能行走三天》
18 岁 , 不能下地; 20 岁 , 胳膊举不过头顶。如今 , 我拿不起一杯水……生活完全不能自理。行走对于一个正常人来说是最为容易的事,而对于我来说比登天还难 , 所以,假如我能行走三天,我将万分珍惜三天中的每分每秒。他因病从小到大只上过一天学。
23 年只能天天在炕上坐着 , 眼中惟一的风景是自家院子。 肌肉萎缩到不能自己穿衣和洗脸 , 拿不起一本书 , 一杯水。 他叫张云成 , 家住黑龙江省五大连池风景区青泉村。 他写就了一部十余万字的书稿。 这是第一部由肌无力患者写就的、真实再现肌无力患者生活以及坚强的励志之作。 他说 : 我终于证明了一点,在这个世界存在过、奋争过……
Scan the text and write a mini bio
for Zhang Yuncheng.
A Mini Bio
Name:
Sex:
Health:
Zhang Yuncheng
Male
disabilities caused by a muscle
disease; very weak, can hardly
pick up a pen
School education:
Interests and hobbies:
Ambition:
Dream:
one day
reading and
writing
to write and publish a book
to live a better life
Write a new draft of your article.
Although Zhang Yuncheng is unable to walk or even get out of bed without help, he has achieved his ambition to write a book. Because of his disability, Yuncheng went to school for only one day. However, when he was 12 years old, he taught himself to write.
Sample writing
When he was 17, Yuncheng wrote to a
newspaper about his life and his
ambition to write a book. Zhang Danuo,
an editor at the newspaper helped him
by setting him writing assignments
every week. These assignments have
now been turned into a book, which
many people have bought.
Yuncheng says that because his life
will not be a long one, he must do as
much as he can within the time he
has left.
Homework
1. Speaking task on P52.
2. Answer the questions on checking
yourself on P53.