Project(1): Making a happiness handbook优质课教案内容

M6U2 project Making a happiness handbook

Teaching Aims: After this period, you will be able to: 1.

Understand two passages abut happiness. 2.

Describe your own ways to stay happy. 3.

Write an essay about happiness in your life.

Teaching difficult and important points: 1.

Try to analyse the structure of the two passages. 2.

Learn to use some sentences in the passage to write.

Teaching Aids: A computer and multimedia

Teaching Method: Task based teaching method

Teaching procedures: Step1. Pre-reading Enjoy the video and tell the topic T: Can you fully understand the video? Ss:No, only a part of it. T: Maybe it is difficult for you to understand it. You can only tell me the topic.

Step2.Making a happiness handbook What can make a good handbook? T:Show some pictures to them. Ss: Attractive covers/Beautiful pictures. Conclusion:Attractive covers

Beautiful pictures

Nice articles

Step3 Fast-reading 1.

Is the writer a teenager or an adult? 2.

What time does the writer consider to be the happiness of his/her life? Passage one: An adult/The golden days at school Passage two: A teenager/The future days

Step4.Structure of the two passages Part1(para1) Opinion of happiness

Part2(Paras2&3) Reasons why he/she thinks so. Part3(Para4) Conclusions of the passages

Step5 Detail-reading Read the two passages again and find out reasons. (Requirements: find out some sentences about reasons in these 2 passages and try to recite them.) Competition: The teacher divide the classroom into 2 parts and then to check which part can recite as many sentences as possible. Examples: Golden days 1.My whole life was still ahead of me. 2.At that point in my life, I could have done anything or become anyone. My future happiness 1.No one will be sad because humans will have learnt to... 2.Robots and computers will assist us with... ...

Step6 Discussion Time

Do you think happiness lies in the past，the present or the future? Ss:... What makes you happy? 1.

I will find happiness in being successful at__________________. 2.

Families will be able to spend the maximum amount of their precious time

__________. 3.

__________ is an important part of happiness and it is hard to stay happy and cheerful when you are ill.

Step7 Write an essay on happiness Structure of your essay The title The beginning: your opinion on happiness The body: reasons (details and examples) The end: your conclusion

Step8 Show time Read your essay aloud.

Step9 Homework

Finish your essay.

Read the texts again and learn all the new words in them by heart.