Reading(1)：The search for happiness教学教案设计

Module

6 Unit 2 What is happiness to you ？

一、Reading The search for happiness

二、Teaching Aims：

1. Check and enhance students’reading

abilities. 2.

Train Ss to gain an overall understanding of the article and learn to adopt different reading strategies.

三、Teaching important points:

1. Help Ss know something about Sang Lan.

2．

Help them learn something about “happiness”.

四、Teaching difficult points: 1. How to read an interview.

2．How to undersatand the passage better.

五、Teaching methods: 1.

Improve the students’

reading comprehension.

2. Practice to get the students to master what they’ve

learnt. 3. Discussion to make every student work in class.

六、Teaching aids: 1. the multi-media 2. the blackboard.

七、Teaching procedures: Step 1: Lead-in

(Show some photos about Sang Lan to the students):

Today we are going to talk about a special girl named Sang Lan, who used to be a successful gymnast.

What do you know about this girl?

Now let’s

think about Sang Lan’s

experience: Do you think Sang Lan had had a happy life before she was injured?

Do you think Sang Lan has a happy life now?

What would you do if you had the same problem?

Suppose you had a chance to talk face to face with Sang Lan, what would you like most to ask her about?

【设计说明】通过看图片和谈论，让学生走近桑兰，把学生很自然地引入到新课中，同时激发了他们学习课文内容的浓厚兴趣。

Step 2: Reading strategy

The reading text is an interview from a TV programme about happiness.

Dr Brain, a psychologist who studies happiness, is interviewed in a television talk show and tells a story about Sang Lan.

Do you know what an interview means and how to read an interview?

Let’s

read the Reading strategy on page 19.

From here we can learn that an interview is a formal meeting at which one person asks another person a series of questions on a topic.

When reading or watching an interview, you should pay attention to the topic, the opinions related to the topic, the questions asked and the answers to the questions.

【设计说明】此处我突破了传统的教学模式，把书上原本安排在的每一单元阅读后面的教学策略拿到前面来讲，这样能够更好地帮助学生了解这篇课文的结构以及该如何读这篇文章，为下面的正式阅读做好了铺垫。

Step 3: Fast reading for general ideas

Go through the passage quickly to find answers to the three questions in Part A.

1. What is the topic of the TV interview? 2. What is the name of the psychologist? 3. When and where was Sang Lan born?

【设计说明】通过快速阅读，培养学生迅速寻找有用信息的能力，使他们初步对课文的体裁和内容有所了解。

Step 4: Careful-reading for detailed information

1. Read the passage again and decide the sentences below which ones are true (T) and which ones are false(F).

1) The topic of the TV interview was the story of Sang Lan.

T/F 2) Dr Brain studies happiness.

T/F 3) Sang Lan became a gymnast when she was eleven years old.

T/F 4) Sang Lan was injured in China in 1998, while practising for the Goodwill Games.

T/F 5) Before her accident,Sang Lan’s

best event was the vault.

T/F 6) Sang Lan broke her legs and will never walk again.

T/F 7) Leonardo DiCaprio visited Sang Lan in the hospital.

T/F 8) Sang Lan believes doing no work keeps her happy.

T/F

2. Analyze the structure of the text, and finish the following table.

（附参考答案）

Type of writing

This is a talk show.

Main idea of the passage

It tells about how to find happiness

Topic sentence of 1st and 2nd paragraph

Greet the viewers. And an introduction to the topic—how happiness means to different people

Topic sentence of 3rd and 4th paragraphs

A brief introduction to Sang Lan to show how she enjoys her life.

Topic sentence of 5th and 6th

paragraphs

More details about Sang Lan—her life, her personality and her accident.

Topic sentence of 7th and 8th paragraphs

How she overcame all the difficulties and remains a cheerful and happy person. Topic sentence of 9th-12th and

paragraphs

How she adapted to her new life.

Topic sentence of 13th

paragraph

Conclusion—how to search for happiness in our life.

【设计说明】通过判断正误的练习和概括文章的段落大意，让学生进一步加深对课文的了解。

Step 5: Discussion( work in groups )

Now we’ve

gone through the passage and known a lot more about Sang Lan.

Appreciate her several beautiful photos again.

Look at smiles on her face.

What do you think of her?

Can you describe what kind of girl she is?

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