高一英语《Poems and Poets》课件4.ppt

Sanglan (桑兰) China. * Perseverance and Success 1.Can you name some great disabled people? 2.what have they tried to do to overcome these difficulties? Steven Hawking England 肌萎缩性侧索硬化症 amyotrophic Speech impaired, can only move one of his fingers physicist / mathematician, research into the beginning of space, matter and time. (Black holes theory) Composed Beethoven (1770-1827) deaf Helen Keller 1882—1968 United Kingdom blind, deaf and dumb learn to read Braille (盲文), to speak and write. Finished the studies in Radcliff College. educator and writer “Three days To See.” Zhang Haidi: paralytic, in a wheelchair writer, translator a famous gymnast (体操运动员). She hurt herself seriously in a competition and can’t stand. She helped to bid 2008 Olympic Games and helped organize the Paralympics (残疾人运动会). There are two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance 世界上只有两条路可以使人达到重大目标或完成伟业，那就是力量和坚持不懈。 Look at the picture. Do you know anything about the person in the picture? Tick(√) what you think may be true about him. Then read the text to check your prediction. ______ A. He is a world-famous scientist. ______ B. He first raised the Theory of Relativity. ______ C. He is considered to be the most famous theoretical physicist after Albert Einstein. ______ D. He is an expert of computer science. ______ E. He is a great man of science sitting in a wheelchair. Comprehending 1. Scan the text to find what happened in each of the years and fill in the table. The year The event 1942 ____________________________ _______________________ 1973 ________________________ _______________________________ ______________________________ __________________________ 1979 _____________________________ ___________________________ 1663 ______________________________ ________________________________ Stephen hawking was born in Oxfo