Unit 1 Reading aand writing.pptVIP

Reading and Writing Listening task1. What country did Louis Braille come from2. What disability did he have3. What did books for the blind look like when Louie was a boy4. What invention gave Louie the idea for his system? 科目一考试网 / 科目一模拟考试2016科目四考试网 / 科目四模拟考试驾校一点通365网 / 驾校一点通2016科目一 科目四驾驶员理论考试网 / 2016科目一考试 科目四考试 YearAgeEvent 1809______________ 18134_____________________ 181910_____________________ 182112______________________ _______________________________________ 182415_____________________ _____________________ 182718________________ 182543_______________ Listening text MY HERO: LOUIS BRAILLE Paul’s teacher has asked everyone in the class to prepare a talk about a great inventor. Listen to Paul’s talk about Louis Braille. Good afternoon, everyone. Today I would like to tell you about a man whose invention has benefited millions of people. His name is Louis Braille and it is mostly because of him that blind people are able to read and write and use computers. Louis was born in 1809, and when he was a little boy he had an accident while playing with his father’s shoemaking tools. By the time he was four years old, he was completely blind. At the age of 10, Louis was lucky enough to be sent to Paris to one of the first schools for the blind. At the school they had special books. They were written in ordinary French but the letters were raised up off the page so that blind people could feel the words and so read with their fingers. But the letters had to be very big and the books were huge and difficult to read. They were also very expensive and the school library had only 14 of them. Louis, who was very clever and creative, thought that there must be a better way for blind people to read. In 1821, when Louis was just 12 years old, a soldier came to visit the school. This man had invented a code for soldiers to send and receive messages in the dark. The idea was that soldiers could push a wire into a piece of paper and then read the message by feeling th