Reading(1)：The search for happinessPPT及课堂实录内容

M 6U2 Reading(1) Teaching goals Ability goals: Enable the students to talk about the story about Sang Lan and learn how to read an interview. Learning ability goals: Help the students learn how to talk about disabled people who have got great achievement and also how to read an interview.

Teaching important and difficult points Talk about Sang Lan’s story and how to read an interview.

Teaching methods Fast reading, careful reading, and discussion.

Teaching procedures and ways Step 1 Greetings and Lead-in 1. Greet the students as usual and have them listen to the music If you are happy. After that, ask them this question: Can you imagine what will happen when a person can never walk? 2. Show the students two picture of Sang Lan, and ask them if they know her.

Step 2 Reading strategy 1. Get the students to read the reading strategy about how to read an interview and finish the task presented on the ppt. 2. Have them find the information related to the passage using this strategy they have learned.

Step 3 Reading

1. Fast reading: ask them to go through the passage as quickly as possible and try to find answers to the three questions in Part A.

2. Careful reading:

Read the text carefully and answer the following questions 

How old was she when she competed at the New York Goodwill Games? 

Why was she happy to devote herself to gymnastics? 

What happened to her at the Goodwill Games? 

How did she overcome her sorrow when she was told she would never again be a gymnast? 

What

is Sang Lan’s primary goal after she went back to China?

3. Careful reading 2:

a. Have the students read the passage again and try to divide the passage. What’s more, they are supposed to find the main idea of each part.

b. Analyze Part 3 in detail.

Before the accident

While staying in hospital

After leaving hospital

4. Reading Comprehension

Ask the students to finish Part C1 and C2.

Step 4 Post reading 1. To check students’ understanding of the interview, have them describe Sang Lan’s personality. Use the spidergram on ppt to help them. 2. Task-based reading comprehension.

Step 5 Discussion If time permits, ask them to discuss the following two topics: What is your deeper understanding of happiness after reading this interview?

Suppose one day, you became disabled, how would you go on

living?

Step 6 Homework 1. Finish Parts C and D.

2. Prepare for the recitation of Sang Lan’s story.

3. Preview language points in the part.