Reading(1)：The search for happiness优质课教学设计

Module

6 Unit 2 What is happiness to you ？

Reading

The search for happiness

Fu Shan Middle School—Li Xiaojiao Part 1 Analysis of the Teaching Material Module 6 What is happiness to you? is a unit focusing on how to pursue happiness in the daily life, which contains seven parts. This part is the first period of the key reading content. According to the newly-issued Senior English Curriculum standards, the main task of the teacher is to enhance students’ overall reading ability by introducing concrete reading strategies and adopting some reading skills. It only centers on how to develop their reading ability in reading materials, therefore the language points of this period aren’t included.

Part 2: Teaching Aims Knowledge Objectives

To have the students master some useful words and expressions of this lesson. Ability Objectives To check and enhance students’reading abilities. To train Ss to gain an overall understanding of the article and learn to adopt different reading strategies. Moral Objectives To extend students’ understanding of happiness. Part 3:Teaching important points

Help Ss know something about Sang Lan. and something about “happiness”.

Part 4:Teaching difficult points 1. How to read an interview.

2．How to understand the passage better. Part 5: Analysis of the Students Students dare not to speak in class and learn English as a tool for passing exams rather than for communication.

They have great difficulty in the reading part for lack of enough practice and practical strategies.

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Part 6: Teaching Methods 1.

Improve the students’ reading comprehension. 2.

Practice to get the students to master what they have learnt. 3.

Discussion to make every student work in class. Task-based language Teaching

Part 7

Teaching Procedures Step 1: Lead-in Everyone has their own definition about happiness. Keep what is happiness in your mind as your own image and enjoy your own

happy life. Life is not what other people's thinking, but is your inside feeling. Share some pictures about some ordinary people. Even though they are not rich or in hard times or encounter a lot of difficulties, they can find their own happiness. There are also some people who are disabled but never discouraged and they still could live a happy life with determination and perseverance. Now let’s step into Sang Lan’s life and appreciate her attitude towards life. Do you think Sang Lan had had a happy life before she was injured?

Do you think Sang Lan has a happy life now?

What would you do if you had the same problem?

Step 2: Listening

Listen to the tape, paying more attention to the specific details from line 22 to line 62, then find out what Sang Lan did in 1981, 1987, 1991, 1998 and 2007. Step 3: Reading strategy Have you ever conducted an interview? What is an interview? What preparations will you make before you are going to interview somebody? The reading text is an interview from a TV programme about happiness.

Dr Brain, a psychologist who studies happiness, is interviewed in a television talk show and tells a story about Sang Lan.

Do you know what an interview means and how to read an interview?

Let’s read the Reading strategy on page 19.

From here we can learn that an interview is a formal meeting at which one person asks another person a series of questions on a topic.

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should pay attention to the topic, the opinions related to the topic, the questions asked and the answers to the questions.

Step 4: Fast reading

Go through the passage quickly to find the basic information about an interview: the interviewer, the interviewee, the topic and the questions.

Step 5: Careful-reading for detailed information True or false questions. Detailed information about Sang Lan. Topic

People

1.__________

TV host and Dr. Brain

Being 2. __________ by family and friends

What happiness

means

Achieving some 3. _________ things.

Spending an painless day and staying alive

Born in Ningbo, China in 1981

Before

Beginning to learn4. _________

getting

at six and being a junior gymnast for eleven years

injured

About

Sang

Lan

While in

hospital

Starting to win 5. _____________

in 1991

Being described as a girl working hard, keeping happy and full of 6. _________

Being 7. _______

and inspired by lots of famous people

Thinking of good things and keep in good spirits

Overcoming her 8 ______ and feeling proud of what she had accomplished

After

Studying 9. ___________

at Peking University

returning

Hosting a sport program about the 2008 Olympic Games

home

10.___________ better treatment for disabled people

Step 6: Discussion( work in groups )

Now we’ve gone through the passage and known a lot more about Sang 3

Lan.

Appreciate her several beautiful photos again.

Look at smiles on her face.

What do you think of her?

Can you describe what kind of girl she is?

You may use the spidergram to help you.

Personality of Sang Lan

Further discussion: 1.

Suppose you had a chance to interview Sang Lan, what would you like to ask her about? The following are suggested answers:

Childhood and school education

Things or experiences that had left her the deepest impression before the accident

Reasons for learning gymnastics

Things that encourage her during hard times

Current physical condition

Expectations for future

Future career plans

Attitudes towards life, success and failure

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Sang Lan tells people that to be happy, one must keep busy and think about positive things. Do you think this is a good way of finding happiness? Every one of us will encounter setbacks in our life. How do you face them and always keep positive and optimistic? Step 7: Homework

（Prepare an interview.）

Key words 1.

birth

Useful expressions 1.

Can you tell us a little bit about……？

2.

We’d like to know something about……

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2.

success 3.

accident 4.

attitudes 5.

new life 3.

We heard that your best event is……

4.

That must have been very difficult for you.

5.

How did you deal with it? ……

Design on the Bb. The Search for Happiness Personality of SangLan:

Reflection after teaching:

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