Welcome to the unit板书设计及设计说明

Welcome to the unit Teaching Aim: Make students think about the definitions of happiness to different people and what things they think will make themselves happy. Teaching Important Point:

Train the student’s abilities of speaking.

Teaching Methods:

Individual, pair or group work. Discussion and street interview. Teaching Aid:

Multimedia Teaching Procedures: Step 1

Greetings Step 2

Lead-in Make students think by asking them to focus on the title of the unit What is happiness to you?

Step 3

Brainstorming Ask them what they think would be involved in the topic. Then list some things involved in happiness in the PowerPoint. Eg. Health, love, friends, family, power…

Step 4

Discussion Let students discuss with each other about what they think make them happy or unhappy. And then list their opinions on the blackboard.

Step 5

Further Discussion Look at the pictures in the textbook and let students discuss the following questions: 1.Do you think there are some things that make everyone happy? What are they? 2.What are the things that make you happy? 3.If you had a friend who was unhappy, how would you try to help him or her? Step 6

Reading

Give students a poem on happiness and ask them to read it aloud. Happiness is a tree,

With joy, sweetness, and excitement as its fruits.

Happiness is a house,

With gentleness, comfort and love as its furniture.

Happiness is a teacher,

Who teaches us to love, to sacrifice and own…

Happiness is a hope plus the faith of you and me.

Happiness is Spring's wind,

Summer’s

flowers ,

Autumn's fruits ,

and Winter's snow.

Happiness is shapeless and invisible at all,

We need to touch it with full hearts.

Step 6

Street Interview Let students go to the street to interview some people and ask them the following questions: Do you feel happy? And what is happiness to you, in your opinion? Step 7

Sharing a famous saying Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself

------Emerson

幸福是香水,你洒在别人身上时,自己也会沾上一两滴.

-------爱默森

Step 8

Homework 1. Write an essay about your understanding of happiness. 2.

Read the passage in Part A on p 112.