Reading(1)：The search for happiness优秀教学设计

高邮市第一中学高二英语导学案

主备人：纪爱娟

M6U2

What is happiness to you? Period 2 Reading----- The search for happiness Teaching aims: After this class, students will be able to

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know the experiences of Sang Lan; 2.

know what is happiness; 3.

know the reading strategy of an interview and can put it into practice. Teaching important points: Help the students to form a correct sense of happiness and help them learn what real happiness is. Teaching difficult points: How to improve the students’ reading skills,especially how to read an interview. 【Preparation before class】

1. Preview the words and expressions; 2. Get some information about the happiness 【Activities in class】

Activity 1 Lead- in 1.

Listen and sing an English song ‘If you’re happy’. After it ,ask students ‘Are you happy now?’

If you’re happy and you know it Clap your hands

If you are happy and you know it Clap your hands

If you’re happy and you know it

and you really want to show it

If you’re happy and you know it Clap your hands

If you’re happy and you know it Stomp your feet

If you’re happy and you know it Stomp your feet

If you’re happy and you know it

and you really want to show it

If you’re happy and you know it Stomp your feet

If you’re happy and you know it say OK

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高邮市第一中学高二英语导学案

主备人：纪爱娟

If you’re happy and you know it say OK If you’re happy and you know it

and you really want to show it

If you’re happy and you know it say OK 2.

What does happiness mean to you? What does happiness mean to others? What makes you unhappy?

Show some pictures to help them answer the questions. 3. Today, we’ll see a person who is disabled but happy, famous and successful.

Activity 2 Reading strategy 1.Show the reading strategy—how to read an interview 2.Scan the text to find :Interviewer:________;Interviewee:_________; Topic of the interview__________________. Activity 3. Read the lines, and finish T or F

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)1.Dr Brain studies happiness. (

)2. Sang Lan became a gymnast when she was eleven years old. (

)3. Sang Lan was injured in China in 1998, while practising for the Goodwill (

) 4. Before her accident, Sang Lan’s best event was the vault.

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) 5. Sang Lan broke her legs and will never walk again. (

) 6. Leonardo DiCaprio visited Sang Lan in the hospital. Activity 4.Read between the lines

1. Read para.1—para.4 and answer the questions: 1) What does happiness mean to common people? 2) What does happiness mean to the disabled? 3) How did Sang Lan search for happiness after the accident?

2.Competition----Sang Lan’s experience Round One: Some information of Sang Lan: Age: ____(till now) Age of being disabled:___ Birthplace: __________ Best event :_________ Place of the accident: ________ Round Two: Important events 1981 ______________ 1987 ______________

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高邮市第一中学高二英语导学案

主备人：纪爱娟

1991 ______________ 1998 ______________ 2008 ______________ Task-based reading comprehension( 1 word ) Before going hospital She fell to the 2.______ and would never walk again. Many 3._______ visitors like Leonardo went to see her.

Sang Lan’s

search for happiness Sang Lan was always in good 4.________and focused on While staying 5.__________. in hospital She never cried or 6._________ up hope. She was also happy for her teammates’ 7._________ and was proud of her 8.__________. 1.______ leaving hospital to Sang Lan was happy to work hard and was very successful.

She has

9._________ to her new life and keeps learning and stays 10._____________. Round three: Use as many adjectives to describe Sang Lan as possible. _______________________________________________________________________ Activity 5.Consolidation 1. Group

discussion What impressed you most after knowing her story? 2. Read beyond the lines ---Moral Teaching 1).What does the example of Sang Lan show us?

2).What is happiness after learning the reading material? To Sang Lan, happiness means___________________________________; To other people,happiness means_________________________________; To you, happiness means_________________________________________.

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Write a poem with the topic ‘HAPPINESS’

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高邮市第一中学高二英语导学案

主备人：纪爱娟

Enjoy a poem Happiness is finding a pencil, pizza with sausage(香肠), telling the time.

Happiness is learning to whistle, tying your shoe for the very first time.

Happiness is playing the drum in your own school band, and happiness is walking hand in hand. Happiness is two kinds of ice cream. knowing a secret. climbing a tree

Happiness is _________________, __________________, __________________.

Happiness is ________________,

________________. Happiness is _________________, and happiness is_________________

Happiness is _________________

_________________ , _________________.

【Homework】

Retell the story of Sang Lan

Finish Part E on page 21 in the textbook

【Feedback】

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