Reading(1)：The search for happiness教学活动设计方案

铜山区大许中学高二英语教案

M6 U2 Reading1 The search for happiness

教师：阙敏

2017.11.20 Teaching aims: 1.To let the Ss grasp Reading Strategy on how to read an interview. 2.To introduce an interview on happiness and show how to stay happy in difficult times. 3. To help the Ss develop a right attitude towards happiness.

Teaching steps: Step one : Lead--in 1.

Show some pictures about different people’s opinion on happiness and ask the students to talk about them in pairs or groups. 2.

Show a picture of Sang Lan and ask the students to guess her happiness. 3.READING STRATEGY: read an interview People (at least 2) :_________

& _______

Ask the Ss to scan the text and find out: Interviewer:______________________

Interviewee: _____________________ Topic of the interview:____________________ Step two:Self-learning test:

1．Ask the Ss to read the text and then answer the following questions.

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(1)What’s the topic of the TV

interview?

(2)What is the name of the doctor? (3)How did Sang Lan get injured? 2．Ask the Ss to decide whether the following sentences are true(T) or false(F)．

(1)To all the people，happiness means achieving success in something.(

) (2)Dr Brain has read several books about how San Lan found happiness after the accident.(

) (3)Sang Lan amazed the world by her outstanding achievements in gymnastic.(

) (4)Sang Lan was injured because a coach changed the way the equipment was set up.(

) (5)The doctors in the top hospital said that she would never walk again.(

) (6)Sang Lan’s primary goal is

to advocate better treatment for disabled people.(

)

3.Ask

the Ss to

Read Para 1 -2 to find out what happiness is. Read Para 5 to find the related information.

Before the accident_______________________________ While in hospital____________________________________

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Now /After leaving hospital_____________________________ Read Para 7 to complete Sang Lan’s file

Name

Birth

Place

Personality

Step three:Group-work and expansion: Ask the Ss to work in groups: Before the accident : Sang lan _________

learning gymnastics at 6, and she started________competitions in 1991 and kept______________. She was described as_________, happy and hard-working. To ________her goals, she had to live apart _______her parents, she was happy to _______herself to gymnastics and make her parents ______of her.

While in hospital:

was proud of the things she had (6)_______________. Many (1)________ visitors

went to (2)______ her up. She was always in good (3)_______ and thought about (4)_______ she could do to get better. She was happy for her teammates’ (5)__________ and Sang Lan

Birth year

Best event

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While hospital

Hearing she would never be a gymnast, she was able to overcome her (7)________ and felt thankful to be in (8)______ and (9)_______ to have the rest of her life to(10 )______new things. After the operation: She went back to China after the operation and recovery for several months in America. She went to Peking University and 4 years later , she ____________with a degree in ________________.she also ___________ a sports programmme about the Beijing Olympics, and continued to be a ____________figure on TV. However her primary goal is to advocate better treatment for __________ people, she says that she likes to be _________and keeping busy and smiling help her stay_________. Ask the Ss to discuss: What can we learn from Sang Lan?

Step Four：Test in class:(当堂检测）

Ask the Ss to tell True(T) or False(F): (

) 1.The topic of the TV interview was about happiness.

(

) 2. The disabled don’t have happiness.

(

) 3. Sang Lan became a gymnast at 11.

(

) 4. Sang Lan was injured

in 1998, while

practicing for the Goodwill Games.

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(

) 5. Sang Lan

lost heart after the accident.

(

) 6. Sang Lan set a good example for those

who don’t know how to find happiness.

Summary:

Sang Lan is a good 1. ____________ of someone who is happy with her life.Before her accident，she was happy and 2. ____________in her sports.By the time she was 17 years old，when she 3.____________ in the gymnastic tournament at the New York Goodwill Games，she had been a 4. ____________ gymnast for 11 years.But in 1998，a small accident could have cost her her future happiness.She would never walk again.But she never lost heart.While she was in hospital，she 5. ____________ the world by the way she remained 6. ____________.And now she finds happiness 7.____________ reaching much smaller 8.____________ and through the love of the people around her. Enjoy a poem!

Homework: 1.Review the text after class . 2.Underline the important phrases and sentences in the text and try to analyse them . 3.Share your happiness with each other.

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