Reading(1)：The search for happiness第二课时教学实录

Module 6 Unit 2 reading：The search for happiness Teaching aims: 1. To improve students’ reading abilities.

2. To master the main idea of the article and learn to adopt different reading strategies.

Teaching important points: 1.How to read an interview. 2.How to understand the passage better. Teaching difficult points: 1.To get some idea about the passage. 2.To learn something about Sang Lan, and learn from her Teaching procedures:[来源:学_科_网]

Step 1: Greetings and Revision:

To read some words and phrases on page76 then recite these words. Step 2:Lead-in:

Show some pictures to students and answer the following question. Can you tell any things that can make you happy? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Step 3: Reading strategy: read an interview

Find out the elements(要素) of an interview and how to read an interview How to read an interview? the first paragraph:

Introduce ________ of the interview, who the __________ is and what he/she does. the following paragraphs: 1. Think about the kind of opinions on the ______ the interviewee might have. 2. Carefully read each ________ and fully understand each _________. 3. Pay special attention to the ___________ to this question. Step 4: Fast reading

Skim the text and find the related information Interviewer:_____________________ Topic:__________________________ questions :____________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Step 5: Careful-reading: true or false:

Task 1

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

) 2. Dr Brain studies happiness.

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) 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. Task 2 : Different understandings of happiness: What is happiness?

1. Being _____________by family and friends. 2. ______________ success.[来源学科网ZXXK]Interviewee:_________________

3. Having a day without _________or being alive.

Task 3: To find the related information about SL:

( before the accident): 1. When did she begin learning gymnastics?

______. 2. The best event:_______ 3. She started winning competitions in the year of______. 4. How long had she been a junior gymnast ?__________________ Task 4. While in hospital

Many (1)________ visitors like Leonardo DiCaprio went to (2)______ her up.

She was always in good (3)_______ and thought about (4)_______ she could do to get better. She was happy for her teammates’ (5)__________ and was proud of the things she had

(6)_______________. Hearing she would never be a gymnast, she was able to overcome her (7)______________ and felt (8)__________to be (9)_________ and (10)_______ to have the rest of her life to learn new things.Task 5: After leaving hospital. 1. When and where did she finish her study?[来源学科网][来源学。科。网Z。X。X。K]

____________________________________________________________________ 2. What does she believe? ___________________________________________________________________ Step6:Post-reading

Discussion: 1. What kind of girl is Sang Lan?

(Sang Lan’s personality )

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What is happiness to you?

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Step 7: Summary: Step 8: Homework: 1.Read the text till you can read it fluently[来源:Zxxk.Com]

2.Interview your teachers/ parents about their happiness. 3.Write a report on “The Search for happiness”.