Project(1): Making a happiness handbook教学设计第二课时

M6 U2

Project

Making a happiness handbook Teaching objectives：

To understand the two passages Golden days and My future happiness . To master some useful expressions and sentences about happy life and write a short essay. Teaching important and difficult points：

Students are expected to write a short essay about the happiness using the expressions from the two passages.

Teaching procedures：

Step1

Lead in 1 What is a handbook?

2 What’s your opinion of happiness?

Step 2

Read the essay Golden days Task 1 skimming 1.What does “Golden days”

refer to

in the first essay?__________ A. The author’s happy childhood.

B. The author’s school days in the countryside in England.

C. The author’s college life. D. The author’s whole life in England.

Task 2. Detailed reading

1.Read the first paragraph to answer the questions: What time does the writer consider to be the happiest of his life? ________________________________________________ Why does the writer think those days were happy? ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ 2. Read para2 and answer the questions Why does the writer think school days were happy? _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ Why he didn’t have any worries?

_________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ 3. Read para3 and 4 and fill in the blanks _______________is an important part of happiness.

I have had a wonderful life and I am ______when I think about my _________. I have been happy about ________________at different times during my life, but my most vivid and ________________are those of_____________. Step 3 Read the essay: My future happiness :

1 Read my future happiness again and answer the questions:

1.Why does the writer think that his or her happiest days will be in the future? _____________________________________________________________ 2

Why does the writer expect to be an adult ? _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________

3

Why does the writer think it is nice to think the happiest days are still ahead of her ? _____________________________________________________________ 2

True or false

___1.The writer is a teenager because she will be an adult in the future. ___2.She thinks her happiest days will be in the future with new technology and without war, pollution or hunger. ___3.The writer thinks that teenagers can do things like adults and can make their own decisions . ___4.The writer feels very nice when she thinks of her happiest days ahead of her. ___5.From the essay, we can conclude(总结出) that the writer is a hardworking girl, because she is always motivated to work hard for her future life by herself. 3 The writer thinks the following factors can lead to future happiness EXCEPT _____ .

A. advanced science and technology .

B. being mature and independent . C. not suffering from diseases .

D. spending more time enjoying family member’s company .

Step4 Writing: Write a short essay about the happiness. You can write the short essay about your happy school life, or your happy future. Most importantly, you should use the sentences or the phrases in the two passages. Homework：

1 Finish and Polish your essay after class 2 Prepare for the happiness handbook in groups