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Unit 17 Disabilities Period 1 Warming up, listening and speaking Goals ◆Practise talking about disability. ◆Practice talking about ability and inability. ◆Improve students’ listening and speaking ability. Procedures Leading in (1) by discussing the pictures. ( class work, approx. 5 mins) Hello, everyone. Look at the three pictures first and discuss the following questions: 1. What is his or her name? (Helen Keller, Zhang Haidi, Stephen Hawking) 2. Why is he or she famous? (blind, deaf and dumb; wheelchair-bound in paraplegia) 3. What works did he or she write? (The Story of My Life; Dream in the wheelchair; A brief History of Time) 4. What can we learn from them? ( perseverance, determination, strong-willed, interest…) Leading in (2) by playing a game. ( class work, approx. 5 mins) Ask five students to pretend to be blind with a handkerchief. Then get them to find their seat coming from outside the classroom. The one who finds his or her seat first is the winner. This game is to make the students have a good understanding of the disabled people. Talking about disabled people Think about the words you use This list reflects the views of disabled people themselves. As you will see, the words on the left are passive, victim words, whereas the words on the right respect disabled people as active individuals with control over their own lives. Avoid Use instead (the) handicapped disabled (people) afflicted by,suffers from,victim of has (condition or impairment) confined to a wheelchair, wheelchair-bound wheelchair user mentally handicapped,subnormal learning impaired cripple,invalid disabled person spastic person who has cerebral palsy able-bodied non-disabled Task 1: Looking and discussing. ( class work, approx. 10 mins) Look at the first four pictures and discuss what they tell us: 1. Try to list the difficulties and dangers you might face if you were in a wheelchair or blind. 2. Try to offer some solutions to make the stre