Reading(1)：The search for happiness教学设计(第二课时)

Module 6

Unit 2 Reading

The search for happiness 市中

王薇薇

Teaching objectives

1. Learn how to read an interview.

2. Understand the meaning of happiness.

Keys points and difficulties

1. To master the reading strategy for improving the reading comprehension.

2. How to help the students further understand the text.

Teaching procedures

Reading strategy

How to read an interview

Task1

Put the following statements about Sang Lan in order of time.

A. Studied broadcasting at Peking University.

B. Rushed to a top hospital C. Started winning competitions.

D. Hosted a sports programme

E. Visited to cheer her up.

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Performed daily basic training exercises G. Competed in the gymnastics tournament

H. Became badly injured.

I. Born in Ningbo.

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Task2

Read and fill in the blanks.

Task 3

Understanding of the passage

1. What’s the function of Paragraph 1 in the passage?

A. To emphasize a significant fact B. To introduce the topic of the interview.

C. To explain the definition of happiness

D. To indicate a change in topic

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(√)2 From the descriptions about happiness in Paragraph 1, can you use different words to summarize them separately?

e.g.

Being surrounded by family → Family love

3. Why doesn’t the host say “To some, happiness means owning much money；to others, happiness is being surrounded by more fame.”?

4. In Paragraph 4, what is the host’s purpose of mentioning the example of Sang Lan? (√)5. At the age of six, Sang Lan began learning gymnastics; four years later, she

started winning competitions, but still continued working hard.

What led to her achievements?

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6. What does the expression “…could have cost her future happiness ” (L32) mean?

(√)7. “Specialists from many parts of the world said that she would never walk

again. (L35-36)”; “The doctors told her that she would never again be gymnast.

(L47-48)”

How did Sang Lan probably respond when she heard these?

8. In “Instead of crying what she had lost…” (L44), what does the word “what” refer to ?

9. When the teammates came to tell her about their successes, Sang Lang was in hospital. However, she was happy for them (L46-47). What does the underlined word indicate?

10. Before, during and after the injury of Sang Lan, which words can best describe the changes of our feelings? A. crazy→ concerned→ confused

B. doubtful →surprised → amazed

C. excited→ worried → relieved

D. anxious → shocked→ disappointed

E. curious → sorry → satisfied

11. The word “advocate” in Line 57 most probably means __________.

A. improve

B. promote

C. complete

D. enjoy

(√)12. What qualities can we learn from the example of Sang Lan?

13. What does the passage want to tell us through the story of Sang Lan? A. Accidents will happen. B. He laughs best who laughs last.

C. Happiness is good health and a bad memory. D. An optimist sees the rose; a pessimist the thorn.

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Task 4

Task-based reading

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Before the accident 2. ______________ to gymnastics, she was happy and successful.

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Many famous visitors went to see and 3.___________her. 

People had thought she was in 4._______________spirits. 

Appreciate the good things and attach great 5. ___________ to goals.

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Never be sad about the lost things and never lose 6._______ 

Be happy for what the teammates 7.____________. While in hospital

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Overcome her sorrow and take 8._______in her accomplishments.

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Express her 9.____________ for being alive and lucky to learn new things.

1._____ leaving hospital

Task 5

Discussion

What is happiness to Sang Lan?

Appreciating literature

Happiness is the key of life

John Lennon said: "When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."

What is happiness? For some is fame, for some is love, for some is money, for some is health. So, is happiness something we don't have? How can we be happy if to be happy we need something we don't have? There will always be something we don't have.

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10.______________ herself with things helps her stay positive.

I came to realize that they are happy not because they have all they want, but because they are passionate about something and that puts their mind in that state of happiness. They are happy because they do something they love. Because they are working on something they believe in.

Happiness is something we have to find within ourselves. Happiness should be the journey toward something we want not the end destination of that journey. I have big dreams and there are so many things I want to have and achieve. I'm happy because I'm working on having and achieving what I love.

Be happy even if in the toughest and miserable moments of my life. Why? Because I just know that there is no perfection also not in happiness and the pursuit of it involves risks, pain, rejections, sweat and tears. And so I look around every day and I find reasons to be happy in so many little things.

Let's go for it and be fearless....we can lose money, fame, love but not happiness!

Task 6 Micro-writing

如何理解

“幸福”，不同的人有不同的看法。请结合你对短文的理解用英语写一篇短文,以“What is happiness to me？”为标题。字数100字左右。

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* Happiness is an attitude and a choice, not a condition.

—O.Levant

* Happiness is not wishing for what we do not have, but enjoying what we do possess.

—H.Jackson

* Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the excitement of creative effort.

—Franklin Roosevelt

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