Reading(1)：The search for happiness主要内容及教案内容

Module 6 Unit 2

The search for happiness 郴州市二中

高二年级英语组陈群

Teaching aims: By the end of the class, the students will be able to: 1.

Master the main idea of the passage; 2.

Comprehend the detailed information. Teaching important point: Master the main idea of the passage. Teaching difficult point:

Comprehend the detailed information. Teaching method:

Task-bases Teaching Method Teaching aid:

multi-media Teaching procedures: StepⅠ

Lead-in

1. Show students some pictures, then ask them to observe pictures and answer questions. What is happiness to these people? 1). For policemen, firefighters and soldiers, happiness means serving the people; 2). For these players, happiness means winning matches. 2. Interview students about the definition of happiness in their eyes. Then, show some views about what the happiness is.

Happiness may be knowledge, health ……

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Ask students what the happiness is for the disabled, and introduce Sang Lan’s story to students.

Sang Lan used to be an excellent gymnast of China and won many honors for the Chinese. ……

Step II Reading 1.

Have students read the reading strategy and master the reading skills about how to read a interview. People: interviewer and interviewee; Ways to read an interview: 1)Read the topic that interviewer introduces in paragraph 1. 2)Find the person interviewed. 3)Read each question carefully.

4)Read interviewee’s response .

2. Have students read the paragraph 1 and answer two questions.

1). What is the topic of the TV interview?

(Happiness). 2). Who is the interviewee?

(Dr Brain) Then read the paragraph 1- pare 5 quickly, and get brief introduction about the topic.

1) What does happiness mean to common people?

(To some, happiness is being surrounded by family and friends. To others, achieving success in something.) 2) What does happiness mean to the disabled?

(Happiness can simply mean a day without suffering or just being alive). 3. Have students read the passage quickly, and find out the three questions raised by the host.

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Can you tell us a little bit about Sang Lan and who she is ?

How old was she when the accident happened?

How has Sang Lan adapted to her new life? 4. Detailed information. Students should read the rest of the passage (Para. 6- para. 12) carefully and get the detailed information about Sang Lan’s experiences and the process of search for happiness.

Step III After reading Have students recall Sang Lan’s story and ask them to conclude Sang Lan’s personalities with words in the passage.

Brave, cheerful, determined, hard-working, energetic, active, positive, optimistic, etc. Step V Review Have students fill in the blanks according to the passage. Sang Lan was originally an 1. energetic (energy) happy and hard-working girl. By the time she competed in the gymnastics tournament at the New York Goodwill Games, she 2. had been (be)

a junior gymnast for eleven years. Even though she had to live apart 3. from her parents, she was happy to devote herself 4. to gymnastics. ……

Step VI Homework 1. Review the passage

3. Finish the tasks on Page 20– Page21