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

Book VI Unit 2 What is happiness to you

Period 2

The search for happiness (I)

Reading comprehension

【Teaching

Task】

Part A, B, C1 and C2. 【Teaching aims】

1. The Ss can read the Part B fluently and correctly. 2. The Ss can answer the questions in Part B correctly.

3. The Ss can judge the statement in Part C1 and C2 correctly. 【Teaching instructions】

1. Get the Ss to read and guess what the title “The search for happiness” mean.

2. Get the Ss to read the passage and find the answer to Part A.

3. Get the Ss to read again and judge Part C1.

4. Get the Ss to read the passage again and finish Part C2 in groups 【Teaching procedures】

Step 1. Lead-in

1. Check the Ss’ homework in class.

2. Go over The welcome to the unit.

3. Get the Ss to discuss what happiness is and lead in to the teaching task this period. Step 2. Pre-reading 1. Get the Ss to read the following sentences and understand them correctly. This way help the Ss clear away the obstacles for reading.

(1) To those who have been injured or struggle with a physical disability, happiness can simply mean a day without suffering, or just being alive. 对那些受伤的人或者身体有残疾而行动不便的人来说，幸福可能仅仅意味着过一天没有疼痛的日子，或者仅仅是活着而已。

(2) I understand that you often use the example of the gymnast Sang Lan to show how people can find happiness even during times of a personal catastrophe. 我知道，你经常拿体操运动员桑兰为例子来告诉人们：即使遭遇逆境，也能找到幸福。

(3) Sang Lan is a very good example of someone who is happy with her life, even when people expect her to be sad. 有些人为自己的人生感到幸福，甚至在大家以为是悲伤的时候也感到生活幸福。

(4) While she was injured and in hospital, she amazed the world by the way she remained cheerful. 她受伤住院期间，世人都为她依然开朗的样子感到惊讶。

(5) Even though her training meant that she had to live apart from her parents, she was happy to devote herself to gymnastics. 参加训练意味着她不能和父母住在一起，但尽管如此，她还是乐意奉献于体操。

(6) A coach changed the way the equipment was set up, but Sang Lan was not aware of the change until it was too late. 一位教练更改了树立好的器材的位置，

但等桑兰意识到这已经晚了。

(7) Everyone who saw her, from nurses to famous visitors like Leonardo DiCaprio from the film Titanic, who went to see her in the hospital to cheer her up, all said she was in good spirits. 见过她的每个人，从医院的护士，都前往医院探访、给她鼓励的名人，如电影《泰坦尼克号》主演莱昂纳多.迪卡普里奥等，都说她精神状态良好。

(8) Instead of crying about what she had lost and feeling hopeless, Sang Lan thought about what she could do to get better. 所以，桑兰并没有为失去的一切呼天抢地，并没有感到绝望，她想到的是，为了改善自己的状态，自己能做些什么。

(9) When the doctors told her that she would never again be a gymnast, she was able to overcome her sorrow by being proud of the things she had accomplished. 当医生告诉她，她再也不能当体操运动员了时，桑兰能够克服悲伤，为她已经取得的成绩感到骄傲和自豪。

(10) I know I will think about how she rebuilt her life whenever my life feels unbearable. 我知道，以后每当我感到生活难以承受时，都会想一想桑兰是如何重建生活的。

2. Read the questions above the passage in Part A and understand what information they should pay attention to while reading.

Step 3. Fast reading

1. Ask the Ss to read the passage, paying attention to their pronunciation and intonation.

2. Ask the Ss to work togther and answer the questions in Part A. 1. Happiness. 2. Dr. Brain.

3. At the Goodwill Games in 1998, when Sang Lan was practicing, a coach changed the was the eqquipment was set up, but she was not aware of the change until too late. She was badly injured when she fell to the gymnastics mat with a broken neck. Step 4. Careful reading 1. Get the Ss to read the passage freely and finish C1.

1—6. TFTFFT 2. Get the Ss to finish C2 while reading freely once again, and then work in groups to check the answers to C2.

2—6. efbad Step 5. Summary Get the Ss to read the passage freely and fill in each blank in the form according to it with no more than three words.

Title: 1. Introduction of Sang Lan 2. Purpose Way To help people know how 3. to find happiness even during the times of a personal catastrophe To interview Dr Brain, 4. writer / author of several books about happiness and the things people do to keep themselves happy. ●Her personal information

(1) Her life 5. Sang Lan’s story

In 1981: born in Ningbo

6. In 1987: began learning gymnasitcs

In 1991: Began winning competitions

In 1998: got injured because of being not aware of the change of the

way the equipment was set up

In 2007: graduated from 7. Peking University with a degree in broadcasting

In 2008: hosted a sports program about the 2008 Olympics Games

(2) Her best event: vault

●Before the accident

People’s impression—a young girl happy and 8. successful in sports Her own attitude to life—happy to devote herself to gymnasitcs ●After the accident

Her attitude to life—remaining cheerful and finding happiness through reaching goals and through the love the people around her ●While in hospital

Her attitude—in good spirits; instead of crying but thinking of how to get better Her happiness—for her teammates’

successes; proud of 9. her past achievements; alive and lucky to live on to learn new things ●Her present belief

To be optimistic To keep busy so as to stay positive 10. Hope Step 6 Homework 1. Read the passage and try to retell it with one’s own words 2. 第一二节on P. 34-35 in the Kaoyiben

Reflections on Teaching

To think about Sang Lan when your life feels unbearable.