Reading(1)：The search for happiness教学设计第一课时

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Reading—The search for happiness Learning targets (学习目标) After learning this lesson, students are expected to 1.

know about some people’s inspiring stories

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improve the integrated language skills by finishing some activities 3.

develop a positive attitude towards difficult situations.

Procedures (教学步骤) Step1. Two-minute reading (诵读预热) Read aloud the lyrics of a song “Because I’m happy” together Step 2. Lead in (展示导入) Appreciate a song’s MV Brainstorming: What are things that make you happy? Step 3. Exploration and preparation (探究准备) 1.

Skim the passage and describe Sang Lan’s story in brief At the age of six, she began_____________________________ She was hard-working and devoted________________,

which made her parents _________________ Unluckily, _________________________

But she_______________________________ And when she went back to China, _____________________________ 2. Read in detail and find some information Time

Before accident Personalities and qualities the

Supporting sentences

While staying

in hospital Back to China

Step 4. Cooperation and exploration (合作探究) Question: Can you think of a person that you know just like Sang Lan? _____________________________________________________________________ Activity: Watch a video about Amy Purdy, a world-class snowboarder and discuss the following questions according to the following material provided. 1.

What happened to Amy? ____________________________________________________ 2.

How did she handle the tough situation? ________________________________________________________________________ 3.

Are you inspired by her words? What are they? (underline in the article) 4.

What do Sang Lan and Amy have in common? ______________________________________________________________________________ TED演讲稿(节选)

Amy Purdy - Living Beyond Limits [1] If the life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever. [2] Growing up in a hot Las Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. At the age of nineteen, I went home from work one day with the thought I was the flu, and less than 24 hours later, I was in the hospital on life support, with less than 2% of chance of living. It wasn't until days later as I lay

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in a coma that the doctor diagnosed me with bacterial meningitis (细菌性脑膜炎), a vaccine preventable blood infection. Over the course of two and a half months I've lost my spleen, my kidneys, the hearing in my left ear and both of my legs below the knee. [3] But I knew that in order to move forward, I had to let go of the old Amy and learn to embrace the new Amy. And that is when it dawned on me that I didn't have to be 5 foot 5 anymore. I could be as tall as I wanted or as short as I wanted depending on whom I was dating. And if I snowboard again, my feet aren't going to get cold. And the best of all, I thought I can make my feet the size of all the shoes that are on the sales rack and I did! So there were benefits here. [4] It was at this moment that I asked myself that life defining question: If my life were a book and I were the author, how would I want the story to go? And this is when I learned that our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: one, stop us in our tracks or two, force us to get creative. I started snowboarding, then I went back to school. In 2005 I co-founded a non-profit organization. From there, I had the opportunity to go to South Africa where I helped to put shoes on thousands of children's feet, so they could attend school. And I won 2 back Board World Cup gold medals which made me the highest ranked adaptive female snowboard in the world. [5] 11 years ago, when I lost my legs, I had no ideas what to expect. But if you ask me today, if I would ever wanna change my situation, I would have to say No because my legs haven't disabled me, if anything they've enabled me, they forced me to rely on my imagination and to believe in possibilities and that's why I believe that our imaginations can be used as tools for breaking through borders because in our minds, we can do anything and we can be anything. It's believing in those dreams and facing our fear head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits. Step 5. Consolidation (巩固测试)

Group discussion and write down 3-4 sentences for each question Task One: If you broke your leg and got a cut on the face, what would you do and what would you say to yourself?

______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Task Two: If your parents lost their jobs, couldn’t give you any pocket money, and worse still, your family moved into a small house, what would you say to them and what would you do to comfort them?

___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Appreciate a poem by Emerson On happiness Happiness is a tree, With joy, sweetness and excitement as its fruits; Happiness is a house, With gentleness, comfort and love as its furniture; Happiness is a teacher, Who teaches us to love, to sacrifice and own; Happiness is a perfume, You can’t pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Step 6. Homework: Write an article about how positive thoughts affect your own life.

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