5. Connect with the content of the short article to talk about Helen’s difficulties in learning the language, and then write it down.

Helen learned the language very hard. Because she was deaf and blind, she could not distinguish the teacher's voice and the shape of his mouth, so she touched the teacher's face while learning the mouth shape and method of making sounds.

"Helen in Doom"

On June 27, 1880, Helen Keller was born in a small town called Tuscumbia in the United States. Her father, Ad Keller, was a naval officer in his early years. After retiring from the military, he engaged in journalism, opened a newspaper, and became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. Helen's mother is gentle and kind. Eighteen months after Helen was born, an unexpected serious illness turned Helen into a disabled person who was deaf and blind. She couldn't hear the lullaby her mother was humming softly, and she couldn't see her father's kind face. There was boundless darkness before her eyes, and a terrifying silence like death in her ears. This young life fell into the abyss of pain.

When Helen was five or six years old, she was smart and active in thinking, but she did not understand that people talked in words, and thought that others lived in the same darkness as her. In order to raise Helen to adulthood, her parents worked hard. They took her to a famous ophthalmologist and tried to cure her eyes, but they failed. In order to help their child grow up, they spent huge sums of money to hire a tutor, hoping to find "light" for her.

Little Helen is a strong-willed and intelligent child, and her progress is amazing. She learned to read Braille books with her fingers. When reading by touch, her fingers kept moving like leaves in the breeze. Once she learned a new word, she practiced it repeatedly. Sometimes I get so engrossed in reading that I take the Braille book with me and read it after I go to bed. In 1887, when Helen was 7 years old, the need to learn to speak became stronger and stronger. The parents invited Miss Sullivan, a teacher at the Boston School for the Deaf and Dumb, to teach Helen how to speak. When the teacher Sullivan was speaking, Helen put her hands on Sullivan's face, and then tried to imitate her mouth shape and tongue movements to learn pronunciation. This was an extremely difficult job, but the tenacious Helen persevered. Hard work paid off. A few months later, Helen was finally able to speak. When she said "Dad" and "Mom" for the first time, her parents hugged her warmly.

Most of Helen's knowledge about the outside world is obtained through various languages. Words are her eyes and ears, and they are also the window to her soul, so she never misses the opportunity to learn a language. After arduous efforts, she learned five languages ??including English, French, German, Italian and Latin. For a deaf-mute, the effort is unimaginable. Helen learned the language, and with her understanding of this mysterious world, she fell in love with literature. Whenever she had time, she would come up with her own articles to express her understanding of the world. She met many famous writers, poets, editors, and actors and learned a lot from them. In 1905, Helen published autobiographical novels such as "My Life Story" and "My Living World", and soon her unique charm became a world-famous figure.