【教案】选修8unit4 Pygmalion 教案.docVIP

第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 9 页 授课教案 老师签名 学生签名 教学主题 选修8Unit 4?? Pygmalion 课前小练：完形七： I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car and landing on my head. Now I am thirty two. I can 36 remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a 37 can do strange things to people. It 38 to me the other day that I might not have come to 39 life as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the 40 of them made me appreciate more 41 I had left. Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of 42 to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me--a 43 to live, you might call it--which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight it out with 44 . The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have 45 and?become a chair rocker on the front porch?for the rest of my life. When I say 46 in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, 47 imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the complex pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit. It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the most 48 things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was 49 me and I was 50 . "I can’t use this." I said. "Take it with you," he urged me, "and roll it around." The words 51 in my head. "Roll it around! "By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This g