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1、Unit 1 Living wellPre-readingRead about the website “Family village”. Discuss with a partner what kind of things you think people write about. Then read the text below which is from the website. The family village website gives ordinary young people with a disability the chance to tell their persona
2、l stories. These stories are very positive and describe the satisfying lives these young people live even though they have some difficulties. Other disabled people find the website beneficial because they can read about people with similar difficulties to their own. The website is also a way for non
3、-disabled people to understand more about how challenging life can be for people with disabilities.ReadingMARTYS STORYHi, my name is Marry Fielding and I guess you could say I am “one in a million”. In other words, there are not many people in the world like me. You see, I have a muscle disease that
4、 sometimes makes me very weak and I cant run or climb stairs as quickly as other people. Also, sometimes I am clumsy and drop things or bump into furniture. The doctors dont know exactly what is wrong with me, so they dont know how to make me well. Unfortunately, they cant tell me whether I will get
5、 worse as I get older, or I will stay the same as I am now I have learned to adapt to my disability. My motto is：live one day at a time. Up until I was about 10 years old, I was the same as everyone else in my class. I used to climb trees and swim and play football. In fact, I used to dream about on
6、e day being a famous football player and representing my country in the World Cup. Then I started to get weaker and weaker. Some days I was too tired to get out of bed I went into hospital for tests I stayed there for nearly three months and missed a lot of school. I think I had at least a billion t
7、ests while I was there, including one in which they cut out a piece of muscle from my leg and looked at it under a microscope. Even after all the tests, no one could give my disease a name, so it is difficult to know what the future will be like.One of the worst things about my disease is that I don
8、t look any different from other people. So sometimes kids laugh at me when I get out of breath after running just a short way or I have to stop half way up the stairs and rest before I can get up to the top. Sometimes, I am too weak to go to school, so I have missed a lot of lessons. Every time afte
9、r a long absence from school I feel really stupid because I am a bit behind the others. My life is a lot easier at high school than it was at primary school. My fellow students have begun to accept me for who I am. Of course, there will always be a few who cannot see the real person inside my body,
10、but I do not get annoyed, I just ignore them. All in all I have a good life. I am happy to have found many things I can do really well, like writing and computer programming. My ambition is to work in the computer industry when I grow up. Last year I invented a computer football game and a big compa
11、ny has decided to buy it from me I have a very busy life and I dont have time to sit around feeling sorry for myself. As well as going to the movies and football matches with my friends when I am well enough, I spend a lot of time with my pets I have two rabbits, five mice and a tank full of fish. A
12、lso, I am the only student in my class to have a pet snake. My pets take a lot of time to look after, but I get a lot of enjoyment out of them. I have a lot of study to do as well, especially after I have been sick for a while.In many ways my disability has made me grow stronger and more independent
13、 I have had to work hard to live a normal life, but it has been worth it. If I had the chance to say one thing to healthy kids, it would be this：Just having a disability doesnt mean your life is not satisfying. So dont feel sorry for the disabled or make fun of them, and dont ignore them either. Just accept them for who they are and give them encouragement to live as rich and full a life as you do. Thank you for reading my story.
