Reading and listening

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????????? Module 7 Unit 1
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Reading and listening
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Leading in

• It is a very popular movie that moves 100
  million Asians in 2005. Whats the movie?

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• Whats the movie about?
• It is about how Xiao Q -a guide dog helps
  Dubianan odd blind man. There is deep love
  between its master and Xiao Q.

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• Xiao Q is his eyes, his company. But do
  you know how a guide dog like Xiao Q is trained?

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Reading

• The different stages in a guide dogs
  training.

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The first stage 1-12 months The puppy lives
with a sighted family.
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• The second stage13-18 months
• It begins five months training at a guide
  dog school.

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• The third stage 19-23 months
• When it is trained, it meets its new owner
  and the two live at the guide school for a month
  to learn to work together.

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• The last stage
• A trainer goes to the owners home to
  teach the dog and its owner how to get round in
  their own town or city.

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• How much does it cost to train a guide dog?
  
• It costs more than 30,000 to complete the
  training of one guide dog. This includes all
  expenses from breeding to raising the dog to
  training it and matching it with a blind person.

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• What exactly is a guide dog
  trained to do?
• Guide dogs undergo a comprehensive
  training program, and only the best complete the
  training and become working guides. In short,
  guide dogs are taught how to find and follow a
  clear path, maneuver around obstacles, and stop
  at curbs.

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• They also are taught to determine when it is
  unsafe to move on. They follow their teammates
  directions, and they know that they can disobey
  only in the face of danger.

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• What is the blind person taught during
  training?
• During the training program, blind students
  first learn about the commands the dog knows.
  Over a several week period, they are taught
  everything there is to know about

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• how to work with a guide dog. In addition,
  they learn about proper care of the dog, which
  ranges from feeding to grooming to medical
  issues. Access laws, public awareness and other
  issues also are covered during the 25-day program.

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• Are guide dogs allowed in restaurants?
• Guide dogs are allowed everywhere that the
  general public is allowed to go. This includes
  restaurants, taxicabs, airplanes, hotels, etc.
  This right is protected by a federal law called
  the Americans With Disabilities Act.

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• Are there things I should or should not do
  when I am around a guide dog?
• The general rule is that working guide dogs
  should be ignored. Distractions take their
  concentration away from the work they have to
  dowhich can put the

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• dog and its teammate in danger. Do not pat or
  feed a guide dog and do not encourage the dog to
  misbehave.

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Listening

• Name of Saras teacher ________
• Name of Saras mother _____________
• Name of Saras guide dog ________
• What Sara wants to teach the dog first
  ________________________________
• ________________

Phil
Jane Robinson
Lucy
Sara and Phil will first teach Lucy to take Sara
to work
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• 1. How did Sara get to work before she got
  her guide dog?
• 2. Has Sara always been blind? Which
  sentence tells you this?

Her mother drove her in the car.
No. She told me how much you have helped her
since her accident.
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3. What did Lucy learn in her first lesson at
Saras home? 4. What is Lucy going to learn
after lunch?
How to get to the train station and onto the
train.
How to get off the train and walk to Saras
work place.
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Listening text
LUCY LEARNS THE WAY Sara, who is blind, has just
returned home from a guide dog school where she
learned how to work with her new guide dog, Lucy.
A teacher from the school has come to Saras
house to teach her and Lucy how to find their way
around their own town.
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• SARA Mum, this is Phil. Phil, this is my
  mother.
• PHIL Pleased to meet you, Mrs Robinson.
• MOTHER Please, call me Jane.
• PHIL Umm, right, Jane Saras told me a lot about
  you.
• MOTHER Only good things, I hope.

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• PHIL Definitely. She told me how much youve
  helped her since her accident.
• MOTHER Well, Ive done my best, but I know Sara
  wants to be more independent.
• PHIL Well, with Lucys help she will be. Hows
  Lucy settling in, by the way?

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• MOTHER Oh, its like shes always been here,
  isnt it, Sara?
• SARA Yes. Shes been smelling everything in the
  house and she knew which was my bedroom right
  away.
• PHIL Thats good. So, Sara, what shall we teach
  Lucy first?

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• SARA How to take me to work. Muns been driving
  me but I want so much to be able to get there on
  my own, like I used to before the accident.
• PHIL Well, lets get started. First well show
  Lucy the way to the train stationfade out

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• An hour and a half later, Sara, Lucy and Phil
  return home.
• (Pause then sound of door opening and closing and
  two sets of footsteps)

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• SARA (very excitedly) Mum, where are you?
• MOTHER In here, dear.
• SARA Lucy did it! She found her own way to the
  station and onto the train.
• MOTHER Wonderful. Clever girl, Lucy. How did
  she go crossing the street?

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• PHIL She was perfect. She sat down at the
  crossing and waited till the cars stopped
• SARA Then she stood up and took me straight
  across the road. I wish you could have seen her.
• MOTHER Me too, but Ill get the chance once
  youve finished her training. So whats next?

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• PHIL Well give Lucy a bit of a rest and then
  well ask her to take Sara to the station again.
• SARA Then Phils going to show Lucy how to get
  off the train and take me to my office. In a few
  days, Lucy and Ill be going to work on our own.

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• MOTHER Thats fantastic. Im so pleased for you.
  Now, would you like some lunch Phil while Lucy is
  having a bread? (fade out)

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Talking
introductions
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Tips on how to introduce people

• Heres how to make proper introductions at
  parties, dinners and other social situations.
• 1. Introduce individuals to each other using
  both first and last names.

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• 2. If youre introducing someone who has a
  title, a doctor, for example include the title as
  well as the first and last names in the
  introduction.
• 3. Introduce the younger or less prominent
  person to the older or more prominent person,
  regardless of the sex of the individuals.

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• (However, if a considerable age difference
  lies between the two, it is far more courteous to
  make introductions in deference to age,
  regardless of social rank.) For example Arthur
  Prefect, I'd like you to meet Dr. Gertrude Smith.

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• 4. If the person you are introducing has a
  specific relationship to you, make the
  relationship clear by adding a phrase such as my
  boss, my wife or my uncle .
• 5. Introduce an individual to the group first,
  then the group to the individual. For example

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• Dr. Brown, Id like you to meet my friends Kym
  Hsu, Shawn Kampbell and Michael Via. Everyone,
  this is Dr. Kurt Brown.

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Homework

• Surf on the internet to learn about Braille.