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

Begging for new words

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.