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授课人：陕西三原鲁桥正谊中学 刘宏

Lesson 37 Touch the World

Helen Keller Dies at 88

Teaching aims:

• New words and phrases:

• 1)blind ,deaf, greatly. • 2)well-known , writer, educator, courage, at the

age of…,be well-known for.

• Useful expressions:• 1)It made her blind and deaf.• 2)She became difficult and wild.• 3)She will be greatly missed.

• To learn new words:

• Blind (=unable to see.)

• The blind(=people who are unable to see.)

• Deaf (=physically unable to hear anything or unable to hear well.)

• The deaf (=people who are unable to hear anything.)

• Greatly (=very much.quite.)

                

                                                                          Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee

                                                                          Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj

                                                                          Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo

                                                                          Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt

                                                                          Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy

                                                                          Z ZHzh CHch SHsh NGng

Phone sb Take a picture Breathe

Both Best wishes bottle

Western sign language

Some questions:

1.What does Helen Keller do?

2. What did blind and deaf people around the world think of her?

3.When and where was she born?

4Why did she become blind and deaf?

5.Did she wanted to understand other people?How?

6.Did she know what they were doing?

She is a well-known writer and educator.

They thought she was a hero.

She was born in 1880 in the U. S..

Because she had a fever when she was 19months old. It made her blind and deaf .

Yes .She stood between her parents .She put her hands on their mouths. She could feel

they talk .She felt one mouth move , and then the other mouth move.

No .She shouted and cried .

7. In1887,what happened in her life?

8At first ,did she understand the words on her hand?

9.Then ,how did Helen understand them?

10. What kind of books did she have as she grew older?

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11. How did she study at university?

12 . What was Helen famous for ?

A young teacher, Anne Sullivan, began to help Helen. She spelled words on her hand with her fingers.

No. The words didn’t mean anything to Helen.

One day, when she was playing in some water, Anne Sullivan spelled W-A-T-E-R onto her hand . Suddenly, she understood.

She had special books with letters she could touch.

Anne sat beside her. She listened to the professors’ words, and then spelled their words onto Helen’s hand.

She was famous for her courage and hard work .She did her best to help other people who were deaf or blind. She will be greatly missed.

Three Days to See (2) --------- Helen Keller The First Day

On the first day, I should want to see the people whose kindness and gentleness and companionship have made my life worth living. First I should like to gaze long upon the face of

my dear teacher, Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, who came to me when I was a child and opened the outer world to me. I should want not merely to see the outline of her face, so that I

could cherish it in my memory, but to study that face and find in it the living evidence of the sympathetic tenderness and patience with which she accomplished the difficult task

of my education. I should like to see in her eyes that strength of character which has enabled her to stand firm in the face of difficulties, and that compassion for all humanitywhich she has revealed to me so often.

I do not know what it is to see into the heart of a friend through that "Window of the soul", the eye. I can only "see" through my finger tips the outline of a face. I can detect

laughter, sorrow, and many other obvious emotions. I know my friends from the feel of their faces. But I cannot really picture their personalities by touch. I know theirpersonalities, of course, through other means, through the thoughts they express to me, through whatever of their actions are revealed to me. But I am denied that deeper……

Three Days to See (3) -------- Helen Keller The Second DayThe next day - the second day of sight - I should arise with the dawn and see the thrilling miracle by which night is transformed into day. I should behold with awe themagnificent panorama of light with which the sun awakens the sleeping earth.This day I should devote to a hasty glimpse of the world, past and present. I should want to see the pageant of man's progress, the kaleidoscope of the ages. How can so much becompressed into one day? Through the museums, of course. Often I have visited the New York Museum of Natural History to touch with my hands many of the objects there exhibited, butI have longed to see with my eyes the condensed history of the earth and its inhabitants displayed there - animals and the races of men pictured in their native environment;gigantic carcasses of dinosaurs and mastodons which roamed the earth long before man appeared, with his tiny stature and powerful brain, to conquer the animal kingdom; realisticpresentations of the processes of development in animals, in man, and in the implements which man has used to fashion for himself a secure home on this planet; and a thousand andone other aspects of natural history……

海伦、凯勒生平： 1880 年 6 月 27 出生在美国亚拉巴马州塔斯喀姆比亚。 1882 年 1 月因患猩红热致盲致聋。 1887 年 3 月安妮 · 沙利文成为凯勒的老师。 1899 年 6 月考入哈佛大学拉德克利夫女子学院。 1902–1903 撰写出版《我的一生》（有的译作《我生活的故事》）。 1904 年 6 月以优等成绩大学毕业。 1908–1913 著《我的天地》（又译作《我生活中的世界》）、《石墙之歌》、《冲出黑暗》。 1916 年遭受婚姻不幸。 1919 年应邀去好莱坞主演电影。 1924 年成为美国盲人基金会的主要领导人。 1929 年著《我的后半生》（也译作《中流––––我以后的生活》）。 1930 年旅游英国。 1931–1933 年荣获坦普尔大学荣誉学位。访问法国、南斯拉夫、英国。 1936 年 10 月 20 日老师安妮 · 沙利文去世。 1942–1952 年出访欧、亚、非、澳各大洲十三国。 1953 年美国上映凯勒生活和工作的记录片《不可征服的人》。 1955 年著《老师：安妮 · 沙利文 · 梅西》 荣获哈佛大学荣誉学位 1959 年联合国发起“海伦 · 凯勒”世界运动。 1960 年美国海外盲人基金会颁布“海伦 · 凯勒”奖金。 1964 年荣获总统自由勋章。 1968 年 6 月 1 日与世长辞。

• Why can Helen Keller become a well-known writer and educator?

Exercises:• Fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the given words.

1)Yuan Longping and Helen Keller are both ________(hero).

• 2)After a few _____ (year) study ,he will graduate from college.

• 3)Is the ____________(mean) of a name important to the Chinese?

• 4)Kong Zi was a great ________ ( education) in China in history.

• 5)Why will she be ________ (great)loved?

• 6)As she _______ (grow) older, she learned to write and read.

• 7)Have you finished ________ (clean) ? The visitors are coming.

• 8)When she got to the station, the train ____ ______ (leave).

• 9)Words _____ ______ (spell ) onto Helen’s hand by her teacher.

• 10)Helen always ________ (encouragement) the blind and deaf to be brave to face the life .

heroesyears’

meaning

educator

greatly

grew

cleaning

had left

was spelled

encouraged

•New words and phrases:

•1)blind ,deaf, greatly.

•2)well-known , writer, educator, courage, at the age of…,be well-known for.

•Useful expressions:•1)It made her blind and deaf.

•2)She became difficult and wild.

•3)She will be greatly missed.

• 1)What can we learn from Helen Keller?

• 2)How can we deal with any difficult after today?

• 3)Rewrite the text on your exercise books.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you

cannot see the shadow.只要朝着阳光，便不会看见阴影。

————Helen Keller

Class is overClass is over .

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