Reading(1)：The search for happiness第一课时教学实录

Period 2

Reading (1) Three-dimensional targets: 1. Knowledge and skill: Help the students learn how to talk about disabled people who have got great achievement and also how to read an interview. 2. Process and methods: To enable the students to talk about the story about Sang Lan and learn how to read an interview. 3. Emotion and attitude: To improve students’ reading comprehension.

Teaching important and difficult points

Talk about Sang Lan’s story and how to read an interview. Teaching methods

Fast reading, careful reading, and discussion. Teaching aids

A tape recorder and a multimedia. Teaching procedures and ways

Step ⅠBrainstorming Greet the students as usual and get them to listen a song. T: Are you happy? Great! All of you hold positive attitudes . T: What is happiness to you?

Different lives have different happiness.

T: Today we will read an interview. The main character in the interview is Sang Lan. Do you know anything about her? That is a shock to everyone.

How did she overcome the difficulties? Let’s move to the text.

Step Ⅱ

Reading strategy and Fast-reading Get the students to read the reading strategy quickly . T: It’s an interview. Now find the related information to it.

Step Ⅲ

Careful-reading Get the students to listen to the text carefully and learn more detailed information to question one. T: Sang Lan’s situation in different period:

Before the accident (Line14-31) Year of birth :born____________ Birth place:____________ When to begin learning gymnastics?

______. The best event:_______ Started winning competitions in the year of______. How long had she been a junior gymnast ?

How did she get injured at the Goodwill Games?(Line31-37)

A coach ________ the way the equipment was set up, but Sang Lan was not ______of the change until it was too late. She hit her_____, and then _____ to the gymnastics mat with a broken______.

While in hospital (Line39-50)

Back to China (Line54-59) When and where did she finish her study? What does she believe?

How to search for happiness

No matter who you are,

no matter where you are,

no matter what trouble you meet,

stay p_______/c_______/o_________/d__________...... Only in this way can you feel _____________________

Step Ⅳ

Discussion Task: Conduct an interview about what your happiness is.

Suppose: You’re a host/doctor/scientist/teacher/saleswoman/farmer/mother…

Work sheet H: Hello, everybody. I’m the host of CCTV-1. Today we are talking about happiness. What’s your name and what do you do?

A: Hello . My name is_____. I am a(n)______. H: Would you like to tell me what your happiness is.

A: As for me, happiness is__________

H: I’m glad/sad to hear that . Why do you think ________ is your happiness?

H: I hope we can learn much from _____and try to achieve more goals.

Summary

An optimist sees the rose, a pessimist the thorn.

乐观的人看到的是玫瑰，悲观的人只看到它的刺。

Happiness is a form of courage .

幸福是勇气的一种形式。

Step Ⅴ

Homework

Write a short story about happiness.