Lesson 78-79Lesson 78-79

Disabilities

How many different types of How many different types of disabilities can you think of?disabilities can you think of?

AN ALBUM OF STEVIE WONDER

Beethoven

Deaf

Musician/composer

A SUCCESSFUL DISABLED WOMAN, ZHANG HAIDI

Something is wrong with his brains

Helen Keller

Deaf and blind

Educator/writer

SOME FAMOUS DISABLED PEOPLE

Roosevelt

Paralyzed（瘫痪的）

Governor/president

Vincent Van Gogh

Epilepsy（癫痫症）

painter

Edison

Learning disability

inventor

Jiang Xintian is giving performances in the locale.

What problems may disabled What problems may disabled people have?people have?

BlindDeafLame/paralysisWithout armsdumb

1 Who is the professor talking about in a lecture hall?

2 What he is famous for?

3 What is the professor talking about?

4 Why does his voice sound a bit strange?

5 What disease does he have?

6 What does he have to use when he speaks?

Read and answer:Read and answer:

7 What wrong attitudes do some people have towards disabled people?

8 What problems do people have when they get old?

9 What needs to be done to make life easier for people with disabilities?

10 How many disabled people in China?

11 What has been done for disabled people in China now?

12 What is the meaning of the sentence “Though we are all different, we need never be separate”?

When we are organizing an event, we /make sure /can enter/use/parts/ get proper equipment for…

When we design a building , we should …

His voice sounds strange His voice sounds strange because it is not he himself but because it is not he himself but a voice box who speaks. a voice box who speaks.

Main idea of each paragraghMain idea of each paragragh

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introduce Stephen Hawkingdisabled people can also live like healthy people

wrong attitudes

disability/ often not totalsomething done for disabled people

disabled people in China

Stephen Hawking

In a wheelchair

Physicist/mathematician

Stephen, pictured with US President Bill Clinton, lecturing at the Whitehouse, as part of the 'Millenium Evenings' series.

This picture was taken when Stephen visited the Whitehouse in early 1999.

A best-seller book by Stephen Hawking

Category: Science

Paperback—212 pages

Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today:

Where did the universe come from? How and

why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God."

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