Project(1): Making a happiness handbook特级教师教学实录

泰兴市第一高级中学

孟洁

Teaching Design M6U2 Project: Making a happiness handbook Student and Material Analysis The target students of this lesson are senior two students, who are now on their way to developing their attitudes towards health, wealth and happiness. The two reading passages deal with different ideas about what makes people happy, which talk about the past happy time and predict the future happy time respectively. On the other hand ,the structure of the two essays are worth analyzing and learning. The students are expected to have a deep understanding of happiness and know how to write an essay after learning the passage.

Teaching Objectives By the end of the class, Ss are expected to:

◆Knowledge: 1 Help students have a better understanding of the two essays

2 Guide them to get a clear knowledge of handbooks

◆Skills &Ability: Cooperate with others to make a happiness handbook and share it. To develop students’ ability of reading, understanding and writing.

◆Affection, Attitude and Cultural Awareness: have a deep understanding of happiness To arouse students’ interest in appreciating the happy memories and keep them.

Teaching Emphasis and Difficulties 1). To train students’ reading strategies, such as skimming, and structure analysis.

2). To foster Ss’ ability of writing an essay and developing a paragraph.

Teaching Methods 1). Task-based Teaching

2). Communicative Language Teaching Approach

3). Situational Teaching Method

Teaching Procedures Step1 Lead-in (approx. 5 minutes) Activity : Brainstorming (class work) play a song named

If You Are Happy,

meanwhile, let students come up with words related to our emotions as many as possible

Purpose: to arouse Ss’ interest and prepare them for what we are going to explore later so that they can read with anticipation.

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泰兴市第一高级中学

孟洁

Step 2 Reading and analyzing the first essay (approx.15 minutes) Activity 1: Skimming (individual work)

Go over the passage quickly and fill the paragraph number of each part. Activity 2. Answer the questions 1 what are the happiest times of the writer 2 why does the writer think those days were happy? 3. What's the writer's happiness in Golden Days? Purpose: To practice Ss’ skimming skill within a time limit and be aware of the gist before going into details. Activity 3: Structure-analysis( pair work)

Find out the main idea of each paragraph and analyze the structure of the essay. Para1.

I think those golden days at school were the happiest of my life.

Beginning paragraph Para2. Supporting Golden

paragraph Days

Para3. (Title)

Supporting paragraph Para4. Concluding paragraph

I didn’t have any worries in life and all I had to do was enjoy my adolescence.

Young people should never forget that good health is an important part of happiness.

My most vivid and happiest memories are those of school days. Purpose: To practice Ss’

inductive learning ability and enable them to explore the inner relationships between the paragraphs.

Activity3: Paragraph-development ( pair work)

Questions for para.2 : What are the sentence functions in paragraph 2?

Questions for para.3:

1) Why does the writer think health is an important part of happiness?

2) How does the writer develop paragraph 3? Purpose: To make students aware of the strategy of developing a paragraph.

Step 3 Self reading and analyzing the second essay (approx. 7 minutes) Activity 1: Scanning the passage for the gist and drawing the framework of the essay. (individual work) Activity 2: Making a comparison between the two essays from three aspects.

The author:

The happiest time is…:

Happy is…: Purpose: to consolidate what students have just learned and Ss’ language organizing ability is trained as well

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泰兴市第一高级中学

孟洁

Step 4 Pre-writing (approx. 8 minutes) Activity 1:Discussion (group work)

What does the happiness mean to you?

How to get happiness?

How to keep happiness ….Make a happiness handbook Purpose: to stimulate Ss’ thinking and foster their ability to make a logical argument, guiding them to the writing task.

Activity 2: application (group work) What makes a handbook? A cover/Contents/Body part (Some pages of detailed information)/conclusion Planning----To divide Ss into four groups, each group member has his/her own task: designing; writing ;checking ; drawing …

Purpose: To help students carry out the task more specifically with a clear outline in mind

Activity 3 :Presentation (Individual work).

Step 5 Homework 1. Proofread your essays in groups of four; 2. Collect your essays and make a happiness handbook.

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