Reading(2)：The search for happiness国家获奖教案

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Happiness is for everyone: You don't need to care about those people who have beautiful houses with large gardens and swimming pools or those who have nice cars and a lot of money and so on．

Happiness has no shape，

no color and no weight．

It can＇t be seen or touched．But everyone wants it so much. In fact, happiness is always around you if you put your heart into it. When you are in trouble at school, your friends will help you; when you study hard on your lessons, your parents are always taking good care of your life and your health: when you get success, your friends will say congratulations to you. And when you do something good to others, you will feel happy, too. All these are your happiness If you notice a bit of them, you can see that happiness is always around you. Happiness is not the same as money. It is a feeling in your heart. When you are poor, you can also say you are very happy, because you have something else that can’t be bought with money. So you can’t always say you are poor and you have bad luck. As the saying goes, life if like a revolving | rɪ'vəʊlvɪŋ|旋转的

door, when it closes, it also opens. If you take every chance you get, you can be a happy and lucky person. Happiness is in your mind: happiness is in your thoughts: happiness is in your heart. Happiness is an attitude towards life

M6U2 What is happiness to you?—the search for happiness Learning aims: 1.

Guide students to share their happiness. 2.

Encourage students to read an interview on happiness according to the reading strategy. 3.

Motivate students to learn SangLan’s personalities. Step I Lead-in what is happiness to you? Step II Reading strategy

How do we read an interview article?

1.________________________________________________

2.________________________________________________

3.________________________________________________

4.________________________________________________ Step III Reading comprehension Fast reading: Read the passage and choose the best answer for each question. (1)

What is Dr Brain ? A.

He is a gymnast.

B. He is a psychologist. B.

He is a journalist.

D. He is a surgeon. (2)

Why does Dr Brain use the example of Sang Lan? A.

To show Sang Lan’s successful life. B.

To persuade us to follow Sang Lan’s footsteps. C.

To encourage us to search happiness even in a tough time. D.

To show people’s different attitudes to happiness. (3)

Why was Sang Lan injured during one of her practice vaults at the Goodwill Games? A.

A coach changed the way the equipment was set up, but Sang didn’t know this. B.

She didn’t perform the practice carefully. C.

She was not devoted to the gymnastics. D.

Someone interrupted her while she was practicing. Careful reading

Taking Sang Lan Before getting Succeeding in her sport for ______ _________ Being ____,happy and hard-working _______herself to gymnastics Working towards something special Making her parents proud

While staying in Keeping herself in good spirits hospital _______the good things in life and

focusing on goals Taking ______in what she had accomplished Feeling thankful to be alive and lucky to have the rest of life to learn new thing After ____ Taking a degree in broadcasting in to China Peking University

______a sports show about the 2008 Beijing Olympics Becoming a popular figure on TV Advocating better treatment for people with 10 Staying optimistic and positive

Post –reading

What does happiness mean for SangLan before her accident? And how did she find her happiness? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. What does happiness mean for SangLan after her accident? And how did she find her happiness? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Step IV

Discussion

Can you use as many adjectives as possible to describe SangLan? And can you support your idea with details from the passage? (Distinguish ideas and facts)

Step V Homework

Read the passage carefully for repeating.

Underline difficult sentences and analyze them.