Reading(1)：The search for happiness第二课时教学设计

Unit 2

What is happiness to you? Reading

Teaching goals

1. Knowledge goals

Enable the students to talk about the story about Sang Lan and learn how to read an interview. 2. 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. 3. Moral goals Help students know the meaning of happiness.

Teaching important and difficult points

Talk about Sang Lan’s story and how to read an interview.

Teaching methods

Fast reading, careful reading, pair work and discussion. Teaching aids

A multimedia.

Teaching procedures and ways

Step Ⅰ Greetings and Lead-in Greet the students as usual and get them to review what they have talked about in the last period. Show some pictures and tell them teacher’ view on happiness. Then ask them “What does happiness mean to you?”

Step Ⅱ Reading strategy Tell them something about an interview and how to read an interview. Step Ⅲ Fast-reading 第

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Get the students to read the text quickly and find out the answers to the questions in the screen. 1. What is the topic of the TV interview? 2. What is the name of the doctor?

Step Ⅳ Careful-reading Get the students to listen to the tape carefully and learn more detailed information

and then do Exercise according to different parts. Background information of Sang Lan: 

Age: ____ 

Birthplace: __________ 

Teammates’ comments:__________________

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Year of winning competitions____ 

Age of being disabled:___ While she was in hospital, a super star came to see her, who is he? Was she feeling hopeless? When and where did she finish her study? What does she believe? Step V Post-reading Get the students to do Exercises True or False and Summary. True or False: (

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

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

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

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

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Summary: Before the accident, she was very h_____ and her strongest event was the v____. However, during a practice this young girl made a small m______. Instead of landing on her feet, Sang landed on her head and broke her n_____. While in hospital, Sang had many v______, including Leonardo DiCaprio. Sang returned to China, and hosted a sports p_____ about the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Step VI Pair work Get students to use some words to describe Sang Lan in three different periods.

Before... While... After...

Step VII Discussion Enable the students to talk about their experiences to overcome the difficulties and become happy. Show the students the following questions. 1. Have you ever had some painful experiences? 2. If you have, how did you search for your happiness? Give the students some time to discuss the questions in groups of four. During this period, the teacher may go into the students to give them help if necessary. After several minutes, check the answers.

Step VIII Homework

Write an interview on HAPPINESS! 教后反思: _________________________________________________________________

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