Project(2): Making a happiness handbook优秀获奖教案

Unit 2

What is happiness to you? project

Aims and requirement Get a clear understanding of handbook and describe the ways to stay happy. Cooperate with others and write an essay on happiness and design their own handbook.. Procedures Step 1 Greeting Step 2 Lead in

Have a free talk with students about happiness and encourage them to express themselves freely. Step 3 READING STRATEGY:

What is a handbook? Discuss in groups: What makes a good handbook?

Nice articles, Beautiful pictures ,Clean handwriting,

Decent design

Step 4 Presentation I. Fast reading Task 1. Have students read the first essay“Golden days”and ask the following questions after they finish it. 1. Is the writer old or young?

(The writer is old. He says“…to look back on my school days”and “when I was young”,implying that he is not young any more.) 2. What time does the writer consider to be the happiest of his life? 3.Why does the writer think those days were happy? (Lines 7-14. In a word, he could fully understand his adolescence.) 4. What does the writer think young people can do while old people can’t? (Young people are healthy, so they can stay happy and cheerful.) Task 2.Read the second passage and answer the following questions. 1 .Is the writer a teenager or an adult? How do you know that?

2.Why does the writer think that his or her happiest days will be in the future?

3.What does the writer think an adult can do while a teenager can’t?

4.Why does the writer think it is nice to think the happiest days are still ahead of time? Task 3. Match the following words with their meanings

innocent ________

income________

accomplishment________

communicate________

guarantee________

assist________

company________

mature________

a.

to something successfully finished or gained b.

help or support c.

the presence of another person d.

to share or exchange opinions feelings, information, etc. e.

to promise that something will certainly be so f.

fully grown and developed g.

money that one receives regularly, usu. as payment or for one’s

work

h.

having little experience of the world and not be able to recognize evil

II. Discussion 1.Do you think the happiest time lies in the past or in the future?

2. Secrets to happiness Happiest time lies not only in the past but also in the future. Only if you live effectively and use your head to make some small

changes.

set goals smile more ready to help others learn to share enjoy the family harmony with all kinds respect the weaker have a good sense of humor get online during free time maintain high confidence

III. Language points

Useful expressions

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look back on my school days（L1)

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at that point in my life (L4)

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those golden days(L5)

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Play in the sunshine(L9)

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As an innocent child(L12)

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Enjoy my adolescence(L15)

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Stay happy and cheerful (L17)

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I’m proud when I think about my accomplishments (L24)

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My vivid and happiest memories(L26)

When I imagine my future (30)

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successful in my job (30)

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this is why (L33)

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fix many of the problems（L38)

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assist us with the

things that are boring(L42)

simplify our lives(L43)

Instant meals(L44)

spend the maximum amount of time(L44)

give me the motivation to work hard (L54)

key words: 1 look back on (upon) / look back to

回顾；回首（往事）；回忆

My grandparents often look back on their bitter life in the old society.

知识链接：

look up 向上看；尊敬，仰视；

在词典、参考书等中）查寻

look down

向下看，俯视；

look down on /upon sb 看不起某人，轻视某人

look for 寻找；期望；

look forward to 盼望

look into 调查

2

fix many of the problems（L38）

fix v. （1）

把……固定于…… fix + n. + adv.

The table was fixed to the floor. 那张桌子被固定在地上。

（2）

确定，决定

（有时与up连用）

fix (up) a date/ a time/ a place for the meeting 决定会议日期/时间/ 场所

fix one’s

/

/

on … 把某人的注意力/眼睛/ 思想集中于……

（3）.解决

Everything had been

.

一切预先解决了

3. Technology will guarantee good health and…(Line39)

guarantee n. 保证书；保证；

v. 保证

guarantee sth;

guarantee sb sth;

guarantee to do sth;

guarantee that …;

我不能保证你会得到这份工作。

I can’t guarantee you

the job.

I can’t guarantee that you’ll get the job.

n. The new television had a guarantee with it.

这台新电视机有保修单。

Money is not guarantee of happiness.金钱并不保证一定幸福。

4.

Assist

us with the things that are boring(42)

assist sb. to do sth.

assist sb. with sth.

assist sb. in sth./doing sth.

Good glasses will assist you

. 好的眼镜有助于阅读。

We all assisted

(mend )the roof.

Excellent sentences(ppt) Making a handbook about happiness(ppt46-49)

Homework: 1. Decorate and enrich your handbook after class 2. preview the language points in this part according to the paper.