Reading(1)：The search for happiness教学设计模板

M6 Unit2 Reading

The search for happiness 执教人：张艳梅

I.Reading strategy: reading an interview 1.

Scan the first paragraph to find out the topic ____________________________________________________________ 2.

Scan the second paragraph to find out--- Who is being interviewed?

____________________________________________________________

II. Fast reading 1. From what the host tells the viewers, we can know______.

A. those people with disabilities don’t enjoy any happiness at all

B. Dr Brain is a disabled psychologist who is good at pursing happiness

C. several books by Dr Brain are mainly about how to keep happiness

D. all people share the same happiness 2. Dr Brain used Sang Lan as an example to _____.

A. talk about his study on happiness

B. talk about how to find happiness in difficult times

C. present his own views about happiness

D. introduce his books about happiness

3. The world was amazed by Sang Lan's ________.

A. unexpected injury

B. way to remain cheerful

C. success in her sports career

D. energetic, happy and hard-working spirit 4. People who went to see her in the hospital found she________.

A. was in good spirits

B. was crying about what she had lost

C. was feeling hopeless

D. did nothing but complain

III.Careful reading Read para.1—para.5 to answer the questions: 1. What does happiness mean to common people? _______________________________________________________________________ 2. What does happiness mean to the disabled? _______________________________________________________________________ 3. How did Sang Lan search for happiness now?

Read para.6—para.10 to answer the questions: 1. When and where was Sang Lan born? ________________________________________________________________________ 2. What was Sang Lan’s best event?

________________________________________________________________________ 3. What did Sang Lan’s teammates think of her ?

________________________________________________________________________ 4. When and where did Sang Lan hurt herself? ________________________________________________________________________

Read para.11—para.15 to answer the question: What does Sang Lan believe? ________________________________________________________________________

Match the sentences below.

1.Before her accident a. she likes to think about positive things. 2.At the Goodwill Games in 1998 b. she graduated from Peking University and hosted a sports programme .

3.While she was in hospital c. we knew her as a young girl who was happy and successful in her sport.

4.Back in China d. Keeping busy helps her to stay positive. 5.She tells people that

e. Sang lan became badly injured while practising the vault .

6.She believes that f. the world was amazed by the way she stayed cheerful.

IV. Post reading 1.

Task-based reading (one word) Title: The search for _____1______ Theme

How to find happiness

Introduction to ●She was born in Ningbo, in 1981.

Sang Lan

●She began learning ____3____in 1987.

●She was happy and successful in her

sport before the accident.

Time In 1998.

Place At the Goodwill

Accident Games .

happening to

She was not aware _____2___ Sang Lan

___4__

of the change of Sang Lan

the way the for example

equipment had

been set up.

Result

She fell and broke her neck.

Information during ●She was _____5____ up by many Sang Lan’s stay in visitors. hospital

●She was able to _____6_____ her

sorrow by being proud of the things she had accomplished.

Today’s Sang Lan

●Likes to be _____7______.

●Believes that keeping busy helps her stay ____8______.

____9____ Sang Lan’s courage is _____10______.

2.

Find out the adjectives to describe the personality of Sang Lang: Brave,_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3.

Discuss the questions below: 1.

What does the example of Sang Lan show us?

______________________________________________________ 2.

How can we search for happiness even in difficult times?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Homework

Sang Lan began learning gymnastics at six years old and _______ herself to gymnastics, which made her live ______ from her parents. Her teammates described her ___ energetic. However, a small accident could have ____ her future happiness. She was _______ to a hospital where her parents and friends ______ her up and she __________ her sorrow. She was in good ______ and stayed ________ even in difficult ______. She _________with physical disability, and gradually ________ to her new life and feels happy to be alive and lucky to have the rest of life to learn new things.