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Unit Two The Value of Life Teaching content Session 1 Lead in and Global Reading Session 2 Detailed Study of Text A Session 3 Extensive Reading of Text B and Writing Task Session one Lead-in Sit in groups of three or four and discuss the following questions 1. Are you enjoying college life at present? 2. What do you appreciate most in this world? Why? 3. What specific goals do you have in life? 4. What can you do to make your life more valuable and meaningful? Think and speak 1. Imagine you, who used to have good sight, now were told to have only three days to see. How would you spend the last three days with your sight? If I had only three days to see, I would… 2. Exchange your ideas with your classmates to see whose decisions are the most impressive. Helen Keller: (1880-1968) deaf-blind American author, activist and lecturer Helen Keller was born in 1880 in northern Alabama, USA. Nineteen months after she was born, she was extremely ill, and lost both her sight and hearing. When she was seven, her parents hired a tutor named Anne Sullivan. She taught Helen to read and write and how to think. Helen entered Radcliffe College, the women’s branch of Harvard University at the age of 20. Her first book, The Story of My Life, was translated into many languages. She also did research, gave speeches all around the world, and helped raise money for many organizations for the blind. Helen received dozens of awards, such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor that an American civilian can receive. She died in her sleep in 1968. She couldn’t see or hear, but she was a college graduate, a productive writer, a world-famous speaker, and eventually she became a heroine and icon. Helen Keller made herself a miracle. a college graduate a productive writer a world-famous speaker: a heroine and icon: Global reading Directions: The following sentences are quoted from the text. Rearrange them into logical order. 1. We should live each day