Reading(1)：The search for happiness教案推荐

Unit 2

What is happiness to you? Reading

Period 1

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. Teaching important points: 1.

Help Ss know something about Sang Lan.

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Help them learn something about “happiness”. Teaching difficult points: 1.

How to read an interview.

Teaching methods: 1. Improve the students’ reading comprehension. 1.

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

Discussion to make every student work in class. Teaching aids:

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the multi-media 2.

the blackboard. Teaching procedures: Step 1. Leading in 1.

Are you happy today? Let’s sing a song ‘If you are happy’.

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Do you think happiness is very important in our lives? Step 2. Discussion How can we find happiness in our daily life? Show the students some pictures.

Step 2. Reading Pre-reading 1.

Say something about Sang Lan.

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Encourage the students to share their information they have already know and to express their opinions freely.. While-reading 1. Ask Ss to skim the first paragraph to find out the topic of the interview.

2. Ask Ss to skim the rest of the interview quickly and answer the questions .

1). Who is being interviewed?

What is he? 2). When and where was Sang Lan born?

3. Ask Ss to read the interview for the detailed information 1)

.Why did Dr Brown use Sang Lan as an example ? 2).What does Dr Brown really mean by saying “ she had a dedicated junior gymnast for eleven years”?

3). How does Sang Lan find happiness now?

4). What was Sang Lan’s best event?

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5). What did his Sang Lan’s teammates think of her ?

6). When and where did Sang Lan hurt herself? And how did she get hurt. 7). Was she sad when staying in hospital? 8). How did people who went to see her find her?

4. Organize them into groups of four and have a competition. 5. Get Ss to say something about Sang lan . 6. Get Ss to finish E on page 21 7.Get Ss to discuss two questions.

Step 3. Homework.

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