Lesson 66
Teaching aims & demands:
Make the students understand Annie Sullivan by learning this lesson.
Also make them realize what they should learn from her.
Key points:
Grasp the text structure
Can use the useful phrases to make sentences with.
Procedures:
Step 1 Revision
Check the homework exercises.
Make sentences with the useful phrases:
Presentation:
Text structure
1 |
A simple-minded girl |
1-2 |
Introduction to my teacher | |
2 |
Annie Sullivan |
3 |
Asking for a teacher | |
3 |
Understand the word “water” |
4 |
Her attitude to me | |
4 |
Begging for new words |
5 |
Company me in a college | |
5 |
How to learn “laugh” and ”jump” |
6 |
Learn how to speak | |
6 |
Struck by Annie’s wisdom |
7 |
Her words encourage me to succeed |
Reading for general understanding:
Where did the writer’s teacher Annie grow up?
What did Annie learn to do?
What did Annie help the writer to do?
Why were Annie and her brother sent to a children’s home?
What did Annie learn in an institution for the blind?
With which physical sense are blind people able to read Braille?
What do you think Annie learnt about the teaching of deaf-blind children?
Why did she leave the institution for the blind?
What kind of things do you say when you pity someone, praise someone and encourage someone?
What problem did the writer have when she went to school?
How did Helen learn to speak?
Why was Helen’s speech ill-formed and not pleasant to hear?
Useful expressions:
for six years more = for six more years = for another six years
get back = return to a former condition; come back; move backwards; regain
demanding
never … until = not … until
owe sth. to sb.
no matter --- indicate the adverbial of concession
keep on doing sth.
Homework
Finish the exercises in the white-cover book.