1、A Fans Notes,Unit 4,Do you know any disabled persons who are very successful? Whats your feeling when you see the disabled who are doing something difficult for them? Without using your hands and feet, could you imagine some other ways to type on a computer? What do you know about cerebral palsy?,Be
2、fore Reading_5.1,Cerebral Palsy,It is a disability caused by brain damage before or during birth or in the first few years after birth, resulting in a loss of voluntary muscular control and coordination. Although the exact cause is unknown, apparent predisposing factors include diseases (e.g. rubell
3、a, genital herpes simplex), very low infant birth weight (less than 3.3 lb 1.5 kg), and injury or physical abuse, etc.,Maternal smoking, alcohol consumption, and ingestion of certain drugs can also contribute to the disease. Most cases are associated with prenatal problems and about 10% of the cases
4、 are thought to be due to oxygen deficiency during the birth process. The severity of the affliction is dependent on the extent of the brain damage. Those with mild cases may have only a few affected muscles, while severe cases can result in total loss of coordination or paralysis.,Cerebral Palsy,Gl
5、obe Reading.1.1,Part Division of the Text,Globe Reading.2.1,Questions and Answers,1. In what ways was Sarahs e-mail different from other letters the author had received? 2. In what way was Sarahs e-mail similar to other letters the author had received?,It contained more details than the usual “Youre
6、 an idiot.”, and it was signed.,It also criticized the authors comments on the Los Angeles Dodgers.,A sportswriter thinks hes met another crank. Instead, he finds a true winner.,A Fans Notes,what is the story about?,The e-mail was in some respects similar to other nasty letters I receive. It took me
7、 to task for my comments on the Los Angeles Dodgers and argued that I had got everything wrong. However, the note was different from the others in at least two ways.,From Sarah Morris,How did the author get to know Sarah Morris? What was the authors impression on her? What was the email about?,This
8、note contained more details than the usual “Youre an idiot.” It included vital statistics on the teams performance. It was written by someone who knew the Los Angeles Dodgers as well as I thought I did. And this note was signed. The writers name was Sarah Morris.,In what ways was her criticism diffe
9、rent from others?,I was impressed. I wrote her back. Little did I know that this would be the start of a most unusual relationship.May I ask you a question? For two years I have been running my own website about the Dodgers. How did you become a baseball editorialist? That is my deam.,What was Sarah
10、 Morris dream?,This was Sarahs second e-mail, and it came just as expected. Every time I smile at someone, they ask me for a job. But something else caught my eye. The misspelling in that last line. The part about “my deam.”,Why did the author say that Sarahs email came just as expected?,Maybe Sarah
11、 Morris was just a lousy typist. But maybe she was truly searching for something, yet was only one letter from finding it. It was worth one more response, I asked her to explain.,What promoted the author to give a response to Sarahs second email?,What do we know so far about the author?,I am 30 year
12、s old. Because I have a physical handicap, it took me five years to complete my associates degree. During the season I average 55 hours a week writing game reports, editorials, researching and listening and / or watching games.,What do we know about Sarah?,Sarah called her website Dodger Place. I se
13、arched, and found nothing. Then I reread her e-mail and discovered an address buried at the bottom: http:/ / spunky / dodgers. I clicked there. It wasnt fancy. But she covered the team with the seriousness of a writer. Still, I wondered, is anybody reading? Nobody ever signs my guestbook. I get one
14、letter a month.,So here was a physically handicapped woman, covering the Dodgers as extensively as any reporter in the country, yet writing for an obscure website with an impossible address, with a readership of about two.,That “deam” was missing a lot more than an r, I thought. I started my own web
15、site in hopes of finding a job. No luck. So what if my maximum typing speed is eight words per minute because I use a head pointer to type? My brain works fine. I have dedication to my work. That is what makes people successful.,How did she type and how fast could she type? Did Sarah lose hope becau
16、se she was handicapped? Why?,A head pointer? I ask her how long it took her to compose one of her usual 400-word filings. Three to four hours. I did something Ive never before done with an Internet stranger. I ask Sarah Morris to call me.,What did the author do after he learnt about her physical han
17、dicap and her hopes?,I have a speech disability making it impossible to use the phone. That proved it. This was obviously an elaborate hoax. This writer was probably a 45-year-old male plumber.,VS,What kind of person did the author assume Sarah was when she told him she couldnt make a phone call?,I
18、decided to end the correspondence. But then I received another e-mail. My disability is cerebral palsy. It affects motor control. When my brain tells my hands to hit a key, I would move my legs, hit the table, and six other keys in the process.,What happened after he decided to end his correspondenc
19、e with Sarah?,When my mom explained my handicap, she told me I could accomplish anything I wanted to if I worked three times as hard as other people. She wrote that she had become a Dodger fan while growing up in Pasadena. In her sophomore year at Blair High, a junior varsity baseball coach asked he
20、r to be the team statistician. She did it, with a typewriter and a head pointer.,Her involvement in baseball had kept her in school, she said despite her poor grades and hours of neck-straining homework. Baseball gave me something to work for. I could do something that other kids couldnt. I wanted t
21、o do something for the sport that has done so much for me.,Okay, so I believed her. Sort of. Who, in her supposed condition, could cover a baseball team without the best equipment and help? I was curious, so I asked if I could drive over to see her. She agreed, giving me detailed directions involvin
22、g farm roads and streets with no names. I drove east across the stark Texas landscape. On a winding dirt road dotted with potholes the size of small animals, I spotted what looked like an old tool shed.,What was the authors reaction after he learned of sarahs life story?,What made him drive to see h
23、er?,But it wasnt a shed. It was a house, a decaying shanty surrounded by tall grass and junk. Could this be right? A woman in an old T-shirt and skirt emerged. “Im Sarahs mother,” said Lois Morris, grabbing my smooth hand with a worn one. “Shes waiting for you.”,What was sarahs home look like?,What
24、impression did the author have of Sarahs mother?,I walked out of the sunlight, opened a torn screen door and moved into the shadows, where an 87-pound figure was curled up in a wheelchair. Her limbs twisted. Her head rolled. We could not hug. We could not even shake hands. She could only stare at me
25、 and smile. But that smile! It cut through the gloom of the battered wooden floor, the torn couch and the cobwebbed windows.,How did it look in sarahs shed?,What did Sarah look like ?,I could bear to look at nothing else, so I stared at that smile, and it was so clear, so certain, it even cut throug
26、h most of my doubts. But still, I wondered. This is Sarah Morris? She began shaking in her chair, emitting sounds. I thought she was coughing.,She was, instead, speaking. Her mother interpreted. “I want to show you something,” Sarah said. Lois rolled her up to an old desk on cinder blocks. On the de
27、sk was a computer. Next to it was a TV. Her mother fastened a head pointer around her daughters temples. Sarah leaned over the computer and used her pointer to call up a story on the Dodger Place website. Peck by peck, she began adding to that story.,She looked up and giggled. I looked down in wonde
28、r and shame. This was indeed Sarah Morris. The great Sarah Morris. I had contacted Sarah Morris months earlier looking for a fight. I realized now, watching her strain in this dark room to type words that perhaps no other soul will read, that I had found that fight.,What was the authors real purpose
29、 in answering sarahs email in the beginning?,Only, it wasnt with Sarah. It was with myself. It is the same fight the sports world experiences daily in these times of cynicism. The fight to trust that athletes can still be heroes. In a place far from such doubt, with a mind filled with wonder, Sarah
30、Morris had brought me back.,What did the fight turn out to be? What was the outcome of the fight?,Words and Expressions,in one (some, many, that) respect(s):,In many respects the new version is not as good as the old one.,Collocations:,in one respect / in some respects,在某一（些）方面,in respect of sth.,关于
31、某事物； 就某方面而言,Mum is very stubborn, and Kim takes after her in that respect.,used to say that sth. is true in one way, in some ways, etc.,take sb. to task: criticize sb. severely (for sth.),She took the government to task over its economic record.,我因迟到而受批评.,I was taken to task for arriving late.,at le
32、ast：,You might at least answer.,他至少等了一小时。,He waited for at least an hour.,1) no less than a particular number or amount,2) even if sth. better is not true or is not done,她是反应慢了点, 但无论如何她很可靠。,She may be slow but at least shes reliable.,Collocations:,in the least,根本，丝毫,least of all,尤其不，最不,impress : v.,
33、I impressed on him the importance of hard work.,1) make someone feel admiration and respect,2) make the importance of sth. clear to someone,Steve borrowed his dads sports car to impress his girlfriend.,Pattern:,impress sb. with / by sth.,We were very impressed by the standard of work.,We were deeply
34、 impressed by the efficiency of the employees in the company.,catch ones eye：,Every time she caught his eye, she would glance away.,1) attract someones attention and make them look at sth.,2) look at someone at the same moment that they are looking at you,Out on the freeway, a billboard caught his e
35、ye.,The beautiful scenery caught her eyes when she was driving along the natural park.,disabled, handicapped & deformity 这几个词都含有“残疾”，“残疾人”的意思,disabled,指的是欠缺某种肢体能力。,handicapped,指的是经由先天、意外或疾病而导致的一种心理或生理情况，因这种情况而使得日常起居要比没有这种情况的人困难一些。,deformity,含有畸形的意思，不但意思上不能表达残疾的完整意义,而且充满了不尊重乃至侮辱，因此绝对不能用来指“残疾人”。,Direc
36、tions: Fill in the blanks with the three words above. Change the form where necessary.,1. He was born with a slight of the foot which made him limp. 2. “I have a terrible responsibility now. Im . . . representing the . That feeling fills me with pride. ” 3. a special school for mentally children 4.
37、The theatre has good access for the .,deformity,_,disabled,_,disabled,_,handicapped,_,cover: v.,They were hoping to cover 40 miles yesterday.,1) report the details of an event for a newspaper or a television or radio programme,2) travel a particular distance,Id just returned from covering the Cambod
38、ian war.,3) include or deal with a particular subject or group of things,The report covers many aspects of students campus life.,call up:,由于战争危机，政府征召后备役军人服役。,1) make the computer display (information),2) officially order someone to join the army, navy, or air force,He called up the statistics on the
39、 Internet.,“Yesterday Once More” is a beautiful song which can call up peoples old times.,Due to the war crisis, the state called up reserve troops for active duty.,3) cause one to remember; bring to mind,1. 痛斥,2. 一段非同寻常的来往,3. 被深深打动,4. 身体残疾,take sb. to task,a most unusual relationship,be impressed,p
40、hysical handicap,5. 大专文凭,6. 引起某人注意,7. 希望,8. 那又怎么样，那又有什么了不起,associates degree,catch ones eye,in hopes of,So what,9. 对非常专注,have dedication to,10. 在来宾登记簿上签名,11. 一个精心策划的骗局,12. 一位校少年棒球队教练,13. 令脖子酸痛的家庭作业,sign the guestbook,an elaborate hoax,a junior varsity baseball coach,neck-straining homework,14. 正在朽烂的
41、小棚屋,15. 蜷缩,16. 调出网站上的一篇报道,17. 添字加句,a decaying shanty,curl up,call up a story on the website,add to,18. 玩世不恭的年代,times of cynicism,After Reading_5.1,Writing Practice to learn to use connective words,In English writing you can link sentences or paragraphs together by connective words or phrases, such a
42、s “however”, “consequently”, “moreover”, etc. The connective words and phrases not only make your writing achieve cohesion and coherence but also convey the links of the thoughts clearly so that the readers can see what you are saying. Here are some most frequently used connective words and phrases:
43、,After Reading_5.2,and, furthermore, more than that, also, likewise, moreover, in addition, what is more, for instance, for example,parallel,although, however, on the contrary, but, in spite of, nevertheless, yet, otherwise, despite,transition,first, second, third, and so on, then, after, before, ne
44、xt,sequence,if, in fact, from now on, until,others,as a result, for, thus, because, for this reason, therefore, as, since, consequently, so,cause and effect,as a result, finally, therefore, accordingly, in short, thus, consequently, in conclusion, so, in brief, in a word,summarize,After Reading_6.1,
45、Proverbs and Quotations,1. There is no such thing as genius; it is nothing but labour and diligence.,世间无所谓的天才，它仅是刻苦加勤奋。,2. Consider other mens troubles. That will comfort yours.,想想他人的不幸，你就能坦然面对人生。,3. Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller, Amer
46、ican writer,虽然世界多苦难，但是苦难总是能战胜的。 美国作家 海伦凯勒,After Reading_6.2,4. Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation. John Kennedy, American president,6.,It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees. George Eliot,从希望中得到欢乐，在苦难中保持坚韧。 美国总统 约翰肯尼迪,天上永远不会掉下玫瑰来，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必须自己种植。 乔治艾略特,5. The man who has made up his mind to win will never say “impossible”. Napoleon, French emperor,凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能的”。 法国皇帝 拿破仑,
