Reading(1)：Stand up for your health!教学创新设计

M6U1 Reading Teaching aims: 1. Enable the students to understand the passage better. 2. Ask the students to learn the Reading Strategy: guessing the meaning of new words. 3. Enable the students to talk about their own opinions when it comes to the topic ‘laughter is the best medicine.’

Difficult point: Enable the students to talk about their own opinions when it comes to the topic ‘laughter is the best medicine.’

Teaching procedures: Step1: Brainstorming What can make people laugh? Step2: Reading strategy: guessing the meanings of new words What would you do when you come across a new word? What is stand-up? Can you guess the meaning of the title “Stand up for your health”?

Skimming: Fast reading: Read for the structure Ask the students to go through the whole passage quickly, and then decide the structure of the passage. Careful reading1: read part 2 and answer Ask the students to read the second part quickly and find out four types of stand-up comedy and their characteristics Careful reading2: read part 3 and answer: Ask the students to read part3 carefully and find out information about Billy Crystal and Bob Hope and George Burns. Careful reading3: read part 4 and answer the following questions: Ask the students to read part 4 and then answer the following two questions. 1. What may be the reason why Bob Hope and George Burns can live so long? 2. Which English saying proves to be true in the last paragraph?

Step3: Consolidation Ask the students to finish the task-based reading. Step4: Discussion

Ask the students to work in pairs and discuss the following questions. 1.When you are in low spirits, what do you do to become happy? 2.Besides laughter, what are other factors that can help people live longer? Step5: Homework Write a composition about your understanding of “Laughter is the best medicine”.