Reading(1)：The search for happiness优质课教案设计

Module6 Unit 2 Reading

The search for happiness

Teaching aims:

1. Grasp Reading Strategy on how to read an interview.

2. Read an interview on happiness and learn how to stay happy in difficult times.

3. Create a poem on happiness.

Teaching important and difficult points

1.Make the students have a better understanding of Sang Lan

2.Make the students master the reading strategy

Teaching facilities

1.Multi-media

2.Black board

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Brainstorming

Teaching procedures:

Step1 Brainstorming:

What does happiness mean to you?

What is happiness to me? Share happy moments with the students. What is happiness to Sanglan, a gymnast?

Step2 Reading strategy

Watch a micro-Course Video made by the teacher about reading strategy.

Let students read the interview as fast as possible and try to find out who the interviewer and interviewee are and the topic of the article.

Then let students find out what question are mentioned. What are the questions that the host asks Dr Brain? Let students scan for background information

File（档案）

Name

Birth Place

Personality

energetic, happy and hard-working

Experiences:

1987(at 6)

1991

1998(at 17)

Sang Lan

Birth year

Best event

1981

Ningbo, China

the vault

She began learning gymnastics

She started winning competitions.

She made a mistake while practicing vaults. She fell and broke her neck.

Step 3 Careful reading

Task 1.True or false (C1)

( )1.The topic of the TV interview was the story of Sang Lan.

( )2. Dr Brain studies happiness.

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

( )4. Sang Lan was injured in China in 1998, while practicing for the Goodwill Games.

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

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

( )7. Leonardo DiCaprio visited Sang Lan in the hospital.

( )8. Sang Lan believes doing no work keeps her happy

Answers: 1. F 2.T 3.F 4.F 5.T 6.F 7.T 8 .F.

Task 2. Detailed reading (C2)

1. Before her accident,

2. At the Goodwill Games in 1998,

3. While she was in hospital,

4. Back in China,

5. She tells people that

6. She believes that

Before the accident: Happy and successful in her sport

While in hospital : Remained cheerful

Now: Find happiness through reaching much smaller goals and through the love of the people around her. Her motto: Getting up from where you fall is the

most ordinary thing for a gymnast. And it’s my

motto. I’ll arrange my time

scientifically

and work hard on my studies

so as to

be a winner in life.

Step 4. Discussion

1.Describe Sang Lan's personality

What kind of person is she? What does the example of Sang Lan show us?

2.How can you find happiness in life ,especially at school? It shows how people can find happiness even in difficult times. Think about good/positive things …/Focus on goals /Stay optimistic.

Step5

Creating a poem on HAPPINESS!

1. Watch a TED video about study of happiness. What is the job of the speaker?

(1’)

Does money mean more happiness?(1’)

2. Enjoy poems! (1) happiness is finding a pencil.

pizza with sausage

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.

(2)The search for happiness寻找幸福

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Happiness is like a beautiful butterfly幸福就像一只美丽的蝴蝶

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The more you chase it away, it soars high

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你越是追赶它，它就飞的越高

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But leave it alone, and sit down at peace

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但如果你不理会他，静静地坐下

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It will settle near, and then grasp it with ease

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它就会落在你的身边，捉住它就是举手之劳

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Happiness is in moments, big and small

幸福存在于或大或小的时刻

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Happiness comes from within above all幸福最终源于内心

In a word, a thought, a deed, or a smile

•

一句话，一个想法，一个举动，或者一个微笑

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Happiness makes living feel worthwhile幸福让生活有意义

3. Create your own poem on HAPPINESS!

Polish in groups of four. 4. show time

Step 6 .Summary and home work

1:Summary

T: Today we have learnt an interview about Sang Lan’s story, and we have known what the happiness is , to different people, happiness has different meanings. What is happiness to you? I think you have gotten the answer, and I hope you are happy every day.

2.homework

1) Retell the story of Sang Lan.

2) Preview the language points.