still understand loud speech in the cinema.)

　　4) Gao Qiang was born with Down's Syndrome, which is a mental disability. Some Down's Syndrome Down's Sufferers have made a good career as actors.

　　Step 2 Pre-reading

　　Ask students to read the short paragraph in Pre-reading carefully and find out the purpose of the website "Family Village".

　　1) To give ordinary young people with a disability a chance to share their stories with others.

　　2) To inspire other disabled people.

　　3) To get non-disabled people to understand more about how challenging life can be for people with disabled.

　　Step 3 Reading

　　1. Skimming: Ask students to read the passage fast just to sum up the main idea of each paragraph:

　　Paragraph 1: An introduction to Marty and his muscle disease.

　　Paragraph 2: How the disease developed / started.

　　Paragraph 3: Marty met a lot of difficulties at school.

　　Paragraph 4: How his life has become easier.

　　Paragraph 5: The advantages of his disease.

　　2. Scanning: Ask students to read the passage carefully to locate detailed information.

　　1) First ask students to read paragraph one and complete the chart below.

Disease 　　A muscle disease that makes him very weak. Difficulties 　　He can't run or climb as quickly as other people. Sometimes hi is clumsy and drop things or bump into furniture. 　　Motto 　　Live one day at a time. 　　2) Neat read paragraph two and three to answer the following questions.

Why did the doctors cut out a piece of muscle from Marty's leg?