M6-U2 The search for happiness
Teaching Aims:
1. Enable the students to learn some information about sang lan and discuss the true meaning of the happiness.
2. To help the students develop the reading ability (including the analytic ability, summarizing ability and the ability of acquiring the information by different of ways and means.) by teaching the text.
3. To teach ss the basic characteristics of an interview and enable ss to master the reading strategy and become more competent in reading a business proposal.
Important and difficult points:
1. How to make ss master the structure and main idea of reading this passage.
2. How to improve their reading ability with various means of teaching
3. How to help the ss understand the article better without feeling monotony and finish the connected exercises.
Teaching methods:
Visual-scene, Tasked-based, Communicative method, Fast-reading method, Careful -reading method, Discussion & Activity.
Teaching facilities: PPT, tape-recorder, blackboard.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Greetings and lead-in
1. show a video on the happiness on the screen
2. Discussion: what does the happiness mean in your mind?
(Make a summary: Different people find happiness and fun in different things. There are certainly no criteria assessing which way of being happy is the best.)
3. Lead the text:
If possible, I will ask students to collect some relevant information before class. Tell students that they are going to read an interview from a TV programme about happiness. Ask students to exchange the background information and experience about Sang Lan they have found with each other. (show the ppt to complement their information and help ss get much more information of sang lan.)
Purpose:
1. Play a video to make ss feel very happy and in good mood and arouse their interests.
2. Encourage ss to express their minds using their own words.
Step-2: Fast-reading:
During this process: Ask students to skim the text and work out the structure to find out the main idea of the paragraphs and then finish the exercise A.
Step-3 Reading strategy: reading an interview.
Design question:
Tell ss to scan the style of whole text, then ask ss:
1. Do you find any different of this text. (Lead ss to answer: this is an interview.)
2. How to read an interview?
Step-4 careful reading
Reading the text again, then do some activities.
1. Choose some exercise from C1, C2 on the screen.
2.. Discussion: Encourage students to discuss freely their true feelings after reading Sang Lan’s story.
3. Brainstorm: What adjectives can you use to describe Sang Lan? Why?
Using the board designing, help ss master the main idea of the text. Ask students to describe Sang Lan's personality.
Purpose:
1. Varieties of teaching ways can arouse the ss’ interests as well as avoid the monotony during the process of reading the article.
2. I will design varieties of activities and approaches to meet the different need of the ss, and make full use of the multimedia to make the lesson vivid, interesting, and effective.
3. My aim at promoting the ss’ analytic ability, summarizing ability and the ability of acquiring the information by different of ways and means.
Step-5: consolidation and group work
1. Design charts and blanks on the screen to ask ss finish them for helping ss understand the text better.
2. group work( group discussion )
a. Do you think Sang Lan had had a happy life before she was injured?
b. Do you think Sang Lan has a happy life now?
c. What would you do if you had the same problem?
3. Then: Suppose you had a chance to talk face to face with Sang Lan, what would you like most to ask her about?(whole class discussion.) Purpose:
This serves as a consolidating exercise for students to practice their spoken English. Encourage them to discuss freely and bravely in English and later ask some students to express themselves.
(Make a summary of the whole text.)
Step-6 Homework
1. Underline the useful words, phrase and sentence patterns and know how to use them freely.
2. write a composition: what does the happiness mean in your mind?
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