Module 6 Unit 2 Reading

The search for happiness

Liu Juhua

Tongling No.3 High school

Teaching Aims:

1. Learn the story of Sang Lan and understand the true meaning of happiness.

2. Develop students’reading ability.

3. Improve students’oral English by talking their own opinions when it comes to the topic Happiness

3. Master the basic characteristics of an interview.
Teaching Important ＆ Difficult Points:
1. Read an interview.

2. Learn the story of Sang Lan.

3. Help the students understand the true meaning of happiness.
Teaching Methods:

Individual, pair and group work.
Teaching Aids:

A tape recorder, a projector and a blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1. Greeting and Lead-in

Greet the students as usual.

Show some pictures and figure out what happiness means to them. They are people with different professions.

Step 2. Reading strategy

1. Help students understand the meanings of interviewer and interviewee.
2. Question: What are the steps to read an interview?

Step 3. Fast reading
Read the whole passage quickly and answer three questions.

1. Who is the interviewer?

2. Who is the interviewee?

3. What questions does the interviewer ask in this passage?

Step 4. Careful reading

(1) Ask students to listen to the tape (Lines 1 to 9) and find out the happiness to different people.

(2) Ask students to read the passage from line 10 to line 35 and find out the background information of Sang Lan.
Birth date: ______

Birth place: __________

Teammates’comments: ___________

Year of starting winning the competitions:____

Year of being disabled: _____

Ask students to find out more information of Sang Lan and make a dialogue.

(3) Go through the rest of the interview quickly and find out three periods

of Sang Lan’s story.

Period1. Before the accident

Period2. While staying in hospital

Period3. After leaving hospital

Then fill in some blanks

Step 5. Post-reading

Ask students to do some exercises related to this passage.

Step 6. Activity

Make an interview on the topic “Happiness”.

Step 7. Homework

Retell the story of Sang Lan

Reflection: