Unit 3 Unit 3 DisabledDisabled

Unit 3 Unit 3 DisabledDisabled

Comprehension 3 Comprehension 3 (Page 32-33) (Page 32-33)

Activity • Close your eyes for 1 minute.

• Stick your fingers into your ears so that you can not hear anything for 1 minute.

• How do you feel?

• Try to write with your mouths or toes. Is it difficult or easy?

Pictures of Disabled Persons

The Paralymics

• Running : • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

=1ZmWYY-FY08

• Swimming • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

=4xVydkIcxxo&feature=related

Group Discussion-1

• What’s it like to be young and bursting with physical and mental energy --- but unable to get your limbs and muscles to obey you?

• What is it really like to be spastic? What things could you do if you were spastic?

Group Discussion-2

• What happens when you let a helium balloon go to the sky?

• If you let a balloon go, how far does it go?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYwGRX8yIqY

An Australian Movie Introduction

Let the Balloon Go

• Let the Balloon Go is a marvelous children's film, which is based on a children's novel by Ivan Southall, produced in Australia at the height of that country's 1970s cinema renaissance. It's a simple, straightforward, and beautifully shot tale about a crippled boy overcoming his disability.

• Robert Bettles plays the lad, John Sumner, whose ailment is unspecified, but involves a leg brace and the threat of surgery. His overprotective mother (Janet Kingsbury) is unwilling to leave him alone and unsupervised...until one day, her son manages to convince her he'll be fine on his own. He promptly chucks his brace aside and scales the highest tree in town.

Ivan Southall

Ivan Francis Southall AM, DFC (8 June 1921 – 15 November 2008) was an award-winning Australian writer of young-adult fiction and non-fiction. He was the first and still the only Australian to win the Carnegie Medal in Literature for children's literature. His books include Hills End, Ash Road, Josh, and Let the Balloon Go. He died of cancer on 15 November 2008 aged 87.

Movie: Let the Balloon Go

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=jtoSHxor9-0&gl=US

Reading Comprehension 3

---Disabled

• Can you predict what the article is about when you see the title?

• Read the article on Page 32-33 and answer the questions 1- 12 on Page 33 within 20 minutes. You can discuss with your partners after reading it.

Time to answer the Time to answer the questions questions

Time to answer the Time to answer the questions questions

Time to read Time to read aloud aloud

Time to read Time to read aloud aloud

--- Read each paragraph of the --- Read each paragraph of the article loudly. article loudly.

Group Discussion-3

• Suppose you were a disabled person.

• How do you feel about it? • What are you going to do with it? • How do you go on with your future

life? • What goals do you want to achieve?

Group Discussion-4

• What have you learned from John Sumner?

• What can you do to achieve your life goals as an able-bodied person?

Thank you for your Thank you for your attention and attention and cooperation! cooperation!

Thank you for your Thank you for your attention and attention and cooperation! cooperation!

See you tomorrow! See you tomorrow!