选修7 Unit1 Living well-Reading and writing[课件].ppt 演示文稿.ppt

Reading and Writing Warming up Listening task 1. What country did Louis Braille come from? He came from France. 2. What disability did he have? He was completely blind. 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 _______________ Listening text MY HERO: LOUIS BRAILLE Good afternoon, everyone. Today I’d like to tell you about Louis Braille. He made it possible for blind people to read and write. Louis was born in France in 1809. Sadly when he was a little boy, he had an accident. By the time he was four years old, he was completely blind. However, at the age of ten Louis was lucky enough to go to Paris to one of the first schools for blind children in Pairs. At this particular school they had special books. They were written in ordinary French but the letters were raised up off the page, so that the students could feel the shape of the words and read them. But there were two problems with this system. First