新世纪大学英语 zooming in: an integrated english course 综合教程
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新世纪大学英语
Zooming In: An Integrated English Course
综合教程
Lead-in
Matching
Author Introduction
Text Comprehension
Watching and Discussing
Assignment
Teaching Procedures
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Lead-in: Let’s appreciate some pictures!
Helen's early writing
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The water pump where Helen made her miraculous breakthrough
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Unit 2
Three Days to See
Helen Keller
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Anne Sullivan, Helen’s tutor (1866-1936)
Portrait of Anne Sullivan, 1887
Poor vision20 years old, Helen’s teacher. She changed Helen from a bad-tempered kid into a gentle child. She taught Helen to read , write, and how to think. She helped Helen fulfill her life and was considered a miracle worker.
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Helen touching the branch of a tree
touch,
smell, and
experience nature.
Helen loved to smell
and touch flowers,
to feel the wind on her
face...
she was curious about
everything!
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Matching
Can you match these pictures with their corresponding introductions?
Ivy Green, where Helen was born on June 27, 1880
Helen's certificate of admission to Radcliffe College, 1899
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Anne Sullivan explaining how Helen learned to speak
Helen at AFB, testing a communication device for the deaf-blind, around 1950
Matching
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Helen holding her Oscar, 1955
Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to Helen in September, 1964
Matching
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Time Events
June 27, 1880 She was born at Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
February, 1882 She lost both her sight and hearing after being struck by illness.
March 3, 1887 She met Anne Sullivan, her life-long teacher.
June 28, 1904 She received a Bachelor of Arts degree, graduating from Radcliffe College of Harvard University.
September,1964 She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
June 1, 1968 She passed away in her sleep.
Helen Keller’s Chronology (1880-1968)
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Helen Keller's Works
1902 With the help of an editor, Helen writes The Story of My Life.
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Three Days to See
"What a strange life I lead—a kind of Cinderella-life—half-glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders!" - Helen Keller, 1933
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1. What does Helen Keller mean by saying that most of us take life for granted?Questions and
Answers
Directions: answer the following questions with the information contained in the text.
Text Comprehension
2. What does Helen Keller think of the attitude that most of us adopt towards our faculties and senses?
3. According to Helen Keller, what is the right way to live each day?
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1. What does Helen Keller mean by saying that most of us take life for granted?
Although we all know that we will die sooner or later, we tend to picture that day as far in the future. So, we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitudes towards life. In other words, we take life for granted.
Questions and
Answers
Text Comprehension
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Our motherland has
been seriously polluted
2. What does Helen Keller think of the attitude that most of us adopt towards our faculties and senses?
She thinks that we tend to take our abilities to see and hear for granted and seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. That is why we often fail to make our life fuller and richer.
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Text Comprehension
“Nothing in particular,” she replied.
Conversation Analysis:
“What have you observed from a long walk in the woods”, I asked my friend who visit me.
How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worthy of note? I who cannot see find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch.
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3. According to Helen Keller, what is the right way to live each day?
We should live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us.
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Text Comprehension
No matter how great a person’s achievement is, he should always live with appreciation for people around him.
Mother
Father
Friends
Teachers
Appreciation
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Summary: What results in Helen's great success?
Attitude
Financial Crisis
Job Issues
Natural Disasters
Man-made Disasters
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Group discussion:
We’re going to watch a video clip about a deaf girl who purses the road of music, work in small groups and discuss the following questions.
1. How many characters are shown in the video?
2. Could you think of some other similar people who
cling to their ideal, although they are disabled.
Watching and Discussing
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青年楷模 张海迪 Zhang Haidi (a young model)
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理论物理学家 霍金 Stephen Hawking (a great physicist)
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音乐大师贝 多芬 Beethoven (a great musician)
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发明家 爱迪生 Thomas Edison (an immortal inventor)
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千手观音 邰丽华 Tai Lihua (a deaf dancer)
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Assignment
What have you learned from today’s lesson and prepare for a presentation next time.
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See
You
Next
Time!