Reading(1)：The search for happiness教学评价实录

The search for happiness Teaching analysis 1.

Analysis of teaching content The topic of this unit is about people and themselves, whose purpose is to help students (Ss) to form a healthy lifestyle and positive attitude towards life. The passage is an interview about how to find happiness through the story of Sang Lan, who amazed the world by the way she remained cheerful though she was heavily injured. 2.

Analysis of the Ss Before the passage, Ss have known something about Sang Lan more or less. They know Sang is a optimistic person though terribly injured. But they don’t know the whole story and how she managed to remain cheerful. So the class aims to present a real person to the Ss, which may result Ss in thinking about: What was Sang Lan like before the accident? How did she manage to remain cheerful after it? What should people do facing obstacles and difficulties in life? 3.

Teaching goals By the end of the class, Ss will be able to: (1)

Learn some new words in context: surround, viewer, energetic, appreciation, sorrow, accomplish (2)

Understand the main idea of the interview and the purpose of Dr. Brain using correct reading strategies (3)

Share the story of Sang Lan with others using key vocabulary (successful in, sport, injured, amaze, remain cheerful, find happiness, reach, smaller goals) in pairs (4)

Work in groups of 4 to discuss one of several questions to develop their critical thinking ability. (5)

Form a positive attitude towards obstacles and difficulties life 4.

Teaching process Step 1. Pre-reading (1)

Ss look at 2 pictures of Sang Lan before and after the accident and answer: Can you guess what happened to her? Do you think she is happy after the accident? Why? (2)

Ss read the title of the passage and discuss in groups of 4: How to search happiness when you are healthy? How to do it when you are sick? (设计意图：呈现图片，引发学生兴趣；提示图片人物是桑兰，让学生猜测她发生了什么事情，激活学生已有图式。通过标题预测文章内容，培养学生有理有据进行预测的能力，同时把握文章的题眼。小组活动讨论人在健康和疾病的情况下分别如何去追求幸福，发散思维，同时帮助学生形成强烈的阅读期待。) Step 2. While-reading (1)

Ss read the interview quickly and answer the following questions and then check answers in pairs. a.

What is the name of the doctor? b.

How did Sang Lan get injured? (2)

Ss read the sentences below and decide whether they are true or false to the TV

interview. Circle your answers. 1. Dr Brain studies happiness.

T/F 2. Sang Lan became a gymnast when she was eleven years old.

T/F 3. Before her accident, Sang Lan’s best event was the vault.

T/F 4. Sang Lan was injured in China in 1998, while practising for the Goodwill Games.

T/F 5 Sang Lan broke her legs and will never walk again.

T/F 6. Leonardo DiCaprio visited Sang Lan in the hospital

T/F (3)

Ss read the interview again and complete the chart in pairs. Before her accident, we knew her as a young girl

a young girl who was

in her sport. At the Goodwill Games in 1998, Sang Lan became

while practising the vault. While she was in hospital, the world was

by the way she

. Back in China,

she

Peking University and

. She tells people that she likes to think about

She believes that keeping

helps her

(4)

Teacher divides the class into 2 groups. Ss play a word competition by saying the Chinese meaning of underlined words in context. a.

To some, happiness is being surrounded by family and friends.

b.

Her teammates described her as energetic, happy and hard-working. c.

Sang Lan knew that for many people the secret to happiness is to have appreciation for the good things in life, and to focus on goals.

d.

When the doctors told her that she would never again be a gymnast, she was able to overcome her sorrow by being proud of the things she had accomplished.

e.

I hope all of our viewers have been inspired by Sang Lan!

f.

I think her courage is admirable.

(设计意图：通过快读、略读、跳读培养学生快速获取文章的主旨大意和访谈的意图、观点、态度；通过寻读、细读等阅读策略培养学生有效获取文章具体信息的能力，同时引导学生进一步理解文章内容。填表格帮助学生把获取的信息图式化，了解桑兰事故发生的时间顺序，以培养其思维组织能力。同时为读后活动的语言输出做准备。在语境中学习单词，培养学生的语篇和语境意识，学会通过上下文猜测词意。) Step 3. Post-reading 1.

Ss share the story of Sang Lan using key vocabulary (successful in, sport, injured, amaze, remain cheerful, find happiness, reach, smaller goals) in pairs. 2.

Ss work in groups of 4 to discuss one of the following questions: a.

Why did Sang Lan manage to remain cheerful?

b.

Sang Lan tells us that the secret to happiness is to have appreciation for good things in life and to focus on goals. Do you agree? Why?

c.

Do you know how to find happiness when one is sick or faced with

difficulties after learning the interview? Can you add your ideas to it? 3.

Ss from each group present their results in front of the whole class. (设计意图：该环节为语言输出环节，学生通过和同伴分享桑兰的故事来巩固和运用本课所学语言知识，提升语言的综合运用能力。小组合作讨论问题，组员之间表达观点，交流想法，互相学习，能够增强团队合作意识。请同学上台发表观点，既能训练学生用英语做事情的能力，又便于老师检测课堂目标的达成情况，以期达到以学促教的目的。) Step 4. Homework 1.

Ss try to read more articles online about how to find happiness when in sickness or difficulties. 2.

Ss finish a composition of 120 words on one of their favorite heroes who managed to remain positive in difficulties. (设计意图：课后作业是对课堂内容的补充和延伸。引导学生利用互联网等信息技术获取更多知识，一方面培养学生多渠道获取知识的意识和能力；另一方面促使学生获取更多有关如何面对挫折和困难的人物和故事，激励学生形成乐观向上的生活态度和坚强的意志品质。根据文章内容或课外获取的知识先一篇有关心目中的英雄的文章，是语言输出的高层次训练，有助于学生综合运用语言能力和内化所学知识。)