Unit 17 My Teacher

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Unit 17 My Teacher
---taken from The story of my life (1920)
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Word studyMake sentences with these words
simple-minded patience
laughter burst into
laughter look back upon
wisdom priceless
gifted  
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This kind of work requires much patience . She
had no patience with her nosy neighbours
.??????????????  with patience patiently
??? be out of patience with?????  be patient
with sb ????? be patient of sth
????? You should be more patient with these
patients . ????????????? 
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I heard a roar of laughter from the next room .
burst into laughter break out into laughter
burst out laughing   ???laugh?????? laugh a good
/ hearty laugh laugh a bitter laughter
have a good laugh over laugh at He laughs
longest who laughs last . He who laughs last
laughs longest .
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valuable , invaluable , priceless , valueless ?
worthless    1) invaluable ?????????????? 
2) priceless ????????? ???   3)
valueless ?????????? 4) worthless
??? valueless ??,??????????????,?????
valueless ??? His advice has been invaluable to
the success of the project . Works of art ,
historic monuments and priceless historical
records were ruthlessly destroyed . These
paintings have been ruined and are now valueless
. The jewels he sold us turned out to be
completely worthless .   It was a worthless
action .
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• Describe the life of Annie Sullivan using
  information from the text.
• Date of birth
• Her childhood
• Her education
• How she became the writers teacher

on April 4th,1866
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2.Her family was very poor.When she was eight
years old, her mother died and her father
disappeared two years later. Annie , together
with her brother, was sent to a childrens home.
But unfortunately, her brother died there later.
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3. When she was fourteen, she left the childrens
home and entered an institution for the blind.
There , she learnt braille, which is a kind of
printing that blind people can read by touching
groups of raised points that are printed on paper.
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4. One day the school where Annie was received a
letter. The letter asked for a teacher for a
seven-year-old girl who at the age of 19 months
had become deaf and blind. Annie considered this
was just the kind of demanding job she wanted.
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Describe how Annie sullivan taught the little
girl 1.How did the little girl learn her first
word? 2.What had Annie done in order to teach the
little girl some words?
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3.How did Annie teach the little girl to laugh,to
jump and so on? 4.What did Annie encourage the
little girl to do and how did Annie help her?
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What did Helen Keller think of herself, what did
she think about the tragic lost of her sight and
hearing. This is what she wrote as a young girl.

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Sometimes a sense of loneliness covers me like a
cold mist. I sit alone, and wait at life ' s
shut-door. Beyond there is light and music and
sweet friendship. But I may not enter. Silence
sits heavy upon my soul. Then comes hope with a
sweet smile and said softly " There is joy in
forgetting oneself And so I tried to make the
light in others' eyes my sun, the music in
others' ears my symphony, the smile on others'
lips my happiness.
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It was the genius of my teacher, her sympathy,
her love which made my first years of education
so beautiful. My teacher is so near to me that I
do not think of myself as a part from her. All
the best of me belongs to her. Everything I am
today was awakened by her loving touch .
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• one or two people had told my mother that I was
  simple-minded.
• There _______ one or two things that must
  be remembered . ????????? 
• Only one or two ______been questioned about
  the case . ???????????????
•   Only a word or two _______needed here .
• ??????????? 

are
have
is/are
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small-minded
????, absent-minded
?????, noble-minded
?????, independent-minded
??????, like-minded
?????, tradition - minded
??????, lazy-minded
????, sports-minded
???????, safety-minded
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small-minded
????, absent-minded
?????, noble-minded
?????, independent-minded
??????, like-minded
?????, tradition - minded
??????, lazy-minded
????, sports-minded
???????, safety-minded
??????
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2. I reached out to Annies hand . reach out
???(?),???????,???????? She reached out and took
down a dictionary from the top shelf .
??????????????????  She reached out her hand and
offered to shake his . ?????,?????? 
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3. She also brought me into touch with everything
that could be felt ?? soil, wood, silk .   bring
into ???????? bring sb into touch ( contact,
association) with????? This brought us into
touch with a wide circle of people .
??????????????????
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4. As I look back upon those years, I am struck
by Annies wisdom . ?????????,???????????? 
(1)look back??,??(think about the past,
recall the past), ??on, upon, to,
over????? Looking back upon our achievements, we
are firmly convinced that we shall be able to
achieve even greater victories .
??????????,??????????????  (2)be struck by
????,????? 
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5. To Annie I owe thanks for this priceless gift
of speech . Annie taught me to
able to speak . This I consider to be the most
valuable gift she gave me . For this I
express my gratitude to her .   (1)owe thanks to
sb for??????? to sb??????????? I owe many
thanks to Mr Wang for his help . (2)oweto
???????? She owes her success to hard work .
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Good bye!
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