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How can they carry out their performances?

Think about the following questions.

①What can we see and hear with?

We see with our eyes and hear with our ears.

② How can we know whether a dish is delicious?We taste it with our tongues.

③ How can we know that a flower has a pleasant smell?

We smell it with our noses.

④ What do we do when we want to know whether the water in the basin is hot or cold?We put our hands in the water to feel it.

⑤ How do we know about the world around us?

We usually use our five senses. They are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

Fill in the form with proper words:

action sense organs the sense

see

hear

taste

smell

eyes sight

ears hearing

tongue/taste buds

taste

nose smell

touch/feel hands/feet/skin touch

Sometimes our senses affect one another. Can you give some examples?

a kind of fruit:

having a hard, prickly rind and soft pulp with an offensive odor but a pleasant taste

fruit

Think about what would happen if people lost one or two of their senses.

Can blind people read? And how?

The blind can read by touching raised dots which represent numbers and letters. This system is called Braille

How do the deaf communicate with each other?

The deaf can communicate by body language or sign language.

1. What can you see in picture one? 2. Are the two lines of the same

length? 3. Can you prove that the two lines

in picture 3 are straight? 4. How can you read line b?

1. If they look at the white part, they can see a vase. If they look at the black part, they can see two faces.

2.They can a ruler to measure the two lines. Or they can use two pieces of paper to cover both ends of the two lines.

3.They can place a ruler next to the lines. They also use a ruler to draw more straight lines which run parallel to the two lines.

4.The symbols in line b can be read as the letters K, B, R, M, or K, 13, R, M.

Some other interesting pictures for you to enjoy and talk about.

How many black points can you see?

How many people can you see in the picture?

如果从你座位前的电脑上看上面的图片 左边的图形是生气的脸 而右边的图形是平静的脸 然后请你起立 往后走几步 突然间他们交换位置了 !!

Move or not?

Why are people misled ( 误导 ) by

their own eyes?

Because the background or other

lines confuse our eyes. Also, what we

expect to see can change what we see.

Actually, it is more the brain that is

confused than the eyes.

1. We often use one or two of the five

senses more than the others. For

example, in the dark, the sense of

hearing and the sense of touch

become more sensitive because we

can’t see anything. When we listen

to our favorite music, we may close

our eyes and just listen with our

ears.

When we read a very interesting

book, we may lose ourselves in it,

and hardly hear anything around us.

When we eat something, we not only

taste or smell it, but look at it as

well.

2.I think that when learning English, the sense of sight and the sense of hearing help me a lot. I usually listen to the tape before I read it. While I’m listening to the tape, I’ll look at the text, and I often read the English text aloud. The combination of these two senses best helps me remember what I have learnt.

3.There are quite a few people who have

made great achievements even though

they have lost the ability to use one of

their senses. Take Beethoven, the great

German composer, as an example. He

began to lose his hearing in 1801 and

was partly deaf by 1819.

In 1824. when he was completely deaf,

Beethoven completed his most famous

symphony, the Ninth Symphony. Another

famous musician is Hua Yanjun(i.e.

Blind Abing). Although he couldn’t see

anything, his famous erhu solos are

admired by people all over China.

Moonlight Reflected On The Er-Quan Spring

sense n. 感官 , 官能 , 感 [ 知 ] 觉

the senses (=the five senses) 五官

a sense of sight [hearing, smell, taste, touch]

视觉 [ 听觉 , 嗅觉 , 味觉 , 触觉 ]

a sense of humor

a sense of duty

a sense of honor

the sense of direction

a man of sense

common sense

good sense

幽默感

责任感

荣誉感方向感

有理智的人常识 [理 ]

通情达理

相关短语：in some sense 在某种意义上

make sense ( 话等 ) 有意义 , 合 [ 有 ]

理

make sense of 了解 ...... 的意义 , 懂得

there is no [some] sense in doing...

做 ...... 是没有 [ 有一些 ] 道理的 [ 意义的 ]

vt. 感觉到 , 发觉 , 了解 , 明白He sensed that his suggestion was unwelcome.

高考链接( 重庆卷 ) 阅读理解 D

Parapsychologists ( 灵学家 ) say that

humans have a natural ability to sense

when someone is looking at them. To

research whether such a “sixth

sense”really exists, Robert Baker,

psychologist ( 心理学家 ) at the University

of Kentucky, performed two experiments.

解析 : humans have a natural ability to sense 人天生有能力感知到…… sense 此处是动词

I am sure David will be able to find the

library—he has a pretty good _______ of

direction. (2009 浙江 )

A.idea B. feeling

C. experience D. sense

（全国） Passage One

In its strictest sense, a group is a collection of

people interacting ( 相互影响 ) together in an

orderly way on the basis of shared expectations

about one another’s behavior. As result of this

interaction, members feel a common sense of

“belonging”. They distinguish (区别 ) members

from nonmembers and expect certain kinds of

behavior from outsiders.

解析 : in its strictest sense 从严格意义上讲 ; feel a common sense of “belonging” 有共同的归属感

1. 影响 没有人知道这件事对她的影响有多大。 No one knew how greatly it affected her.

2. （使）感动 我被这消息深深感动。 I was deeply affected by the news.

cock one's nose 傲慢地翘起鼻子follow one's nose笔直走 , 凭本能行事 , 盲目行事have a good nose 嗅觉灵敏hold up one's nose昂首望天 , 目中无人 ; 骄傲自大keep one's nose out of 不过问 , 不干预lead sb. by the nose 牵着某人的鼻子走turn up one's nose at 轻视 , 瞧不起

1. 人们渴望和平和幸福。 People hope for peace and happiness as well.2. 我喜欢阳光灿烂的日子 , 也喜欢大雪纷飞的时刻。

I love snowy moments as well as sunny days.3. 他的视觉很好 , 听觉也很好。 His sense of sight is good, and that of hearing as well.

confuse vt. 搞乱 , 使糊涂 , 使混乱 , 使迷惑We tried to confuse the enemy.我们试图迷惑敌人。 Don't confuse Austria with Australia.不要把奥地利与澳大利亚弄混淆了。They asked me so many questions that I got confused.他们问了我许许多多的问题 , 把我弄糊涂了。I was confused by all the noise.一片嘈杂声把我弄得昏头昏脑。

to confuse black and white混淆黑白be confused in mind心烦意乱confusion n. 混淆 , 混乱To avoid confusion, the teams wore different colors.为了避免混淆 , 各队穿了不同颜色的衣服。There was some confusion as to his disappearance.关于他的失踪众说纷纭。

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