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

M6 U2 Reading—The search for happiness 宜兴市周铁中学高二英语

陆赟

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued(追逐), is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight(飞落) upon you.

--- N. Hawthorn, American writer

Teaching aims: ☺Teach students the basic characteristics of an interview and enable students to know how to read an interview.

☺Assist students to learn from the inspiring story of Sang Lan.

☺Get the students to have a deeper understanding of what happiness is and how to find happiness in difficult times.

Teaching procedure: Step 1: Lead-in

Show students some pictures and have them think about the following question.

Q: What can bring you happiness in your daily life?

Step 2: Reading strategy introduction Task 1: Have students read the reading strategy ‘Reading an interview’ on Page19 for one minute and understand how to read an interview.

Task 2: Fast reading

Get students to use the reading strategy to read Para 1 quickly and answer 3 simple questions.

Q1: What’s the topic of the TV interview?

Q2: Who is the interviewee?

Q3: What does he do? (job)

Step 3: Detailed reading---The inspiring story of Sang Lan Period I: Before the accident (Line 14-31)

Have students read aloud Line 14-31 for 3 minutes and fill in the blanks. (Individual Work)

Year of birth: born _____________________

Birth place: _____________________

When to begin learning gymnastics? _____________________

The best event: _____________________

Started winning competitions in the year of _____________________.

She had been a junior gymnast for _____________________.

Period II: At the Goodwill Games in 1998 (Line 31-37)

Have students listen to the tape carefully and finish the listening comprehension exercises.

A coach ________ the way the equipment was set up, but Sang Lan was not ______of the change until it was too late. She hit her_____, and then _____ to the gymnastics mat with a broken______.

Period III: While in hospital (Line 39-50)

Have students work in groups and finish the chart. (Group Work)

Many (1) ________ visitors like Leonardo DiCaprio went to (2) ________ her up.

She was always in good (3) ________ and thought about (4) ________ she could do to get better.

She was happy for her teammates’ (5) ________ and was proud of the things she had (6) ________.

She was happy to see her parents.

Hearing she would never be a gymnast, she was able to overcome her (7) ________ and felt (8) ________ to be (9) ________ and (10) ________ to have the rest of her life to learn new things.

Period IV: Back to China (Line 54-59)

Have all the students read aloud this part and answer the following questions.

Q1: When and where did she finish her study?

Q2: What does she believe?

The resume of Sang Lan

Resume Name Age Gender Major E-mail

Nationality Birthplace Best Event

While in hospital School of Graduation

Mrswm2009@yahoo.com.cn

Personality Goal

In 1987

In 1991

Personal Experiences

In 1998

In 2007

In 2008

Step 4: Consolidation

Task 1:

Have students conduct an interview about ‘What you happiness is’ in groups.

☺Suppose you are a host/doctor/scientist/teacher/saleswoman/farmer/mother ...

☺Use the form provided below. H:Hello, everybody. I’m the host. Please tell us what your happiness is. S1: Hello. I am a(n)______. As for me, happiness is...

S2: …

S3: …

H: I hope we can learn much from Sang Lan and try to achieve more goals.

Task 2: Ask students to read the inspiring words of Sang Lan and discuss about her personality.

Getting up from where you fall is the most ordinary thing for a gymnast. And it’s my motto.

I’ll arrange my time scientifically and work hard on my studies so as to be a winner in life.

———Sang Lan

Personality of Sang Lan: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

\(^o^)/

No matter who you are,

no matter where you are,

no matter what trouble you meet,

Stay _______________________

.

Step 5: Summary and homework

☺Finish Part D and Part E on page 20 in the textbook. ☺Retell the story of Sang Lan.

《Happy》

sung by Pharrell Williams It might seem crazy what I’m about to say

也许你会觉得我是胡言乱语

Sunshine she’s here, you can take a break

我无需太阳

因为她就是我的阳光

I’m a hot air balloon that could go to space 我就是一个热气球

飞向太空

With the air, like I don’t care baby by the way

在云间穿梭

烦恼神马的抛脑后

Because I’m happy 因为我很嗨皮

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof

请跟我拍手

如果你身无压力

如释重负

Because I’m happy

因为我很嗨皮

Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth

请跟我拍手

如果你也认为开心快乐是真理

Because I’m happy

因为我很嗨皮

Clap along if you know what happiness is to you

请跟我拍手

如果你知道如何让自己开心快乐

Because I’m happy

因为我很嗨皮

Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do请跟我拍手

如果你也情不自禁的想拍手

Here come bad news talking this and that

负能量满天飞

吐槽这

吐槽那

Yeah, give me all you got, don’t hold back

耶

向我传递负能量

让你一吐为快

Yeah, well I should probably warn you I’ll be just fine 耶

我会告诉你

我是负能量的大黑洞

Yeah, no offense to you don’t waste your time耶

提醒你一下

不要将时间浪费在抱怨上

Here’s why原因如下

Because I’m happy

因为我很嗨皮

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof

请跟我拍手

如果你身无压力

如释重负

Because I’m happy 因为我很嗨皮

Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth

请跟我拍手

如果你也认为开心快乐是真理

Because I’m happy

因为我很嗨皮

Clap along if you know what happiness is to you请跟我拍手

如果你知道如何让自己开心快乐

Because I’m happy

因为我很嗨皮