The Art of Living教學設計

[設計說明]  the step of fast reading  is intended  to train the students’ ability to analyze the structure of a material.
step 5    listening
  get the ss to listen to the material which was read by a foreign teacher in our school. it may keep the pure accent of english. after listening, the students are wanted to give out the main idea of each part.
[設計說明]  the step of listening   is intended  to train the students’ listening ability and the ability to sum up the main idea in each part.
step 6    skimming
get the ss to read carefully the three parts of the text one by one. they have some different tasks to do.
part 1 (task 1)
we want too much (greedy)
reason we don’t know how to be content and what we really need.
result someone else in the world may be suffering. 
conclusion wanting is the source of suffering. 
part 2 (task 2)
thinking:  how do you understand “in today’s world some are money-rich but time-poor?” do you have real examples in your life?
(some people have enough money but don’t have enough quality time. they only care about how to make more and more money but may not spare a single minute to stay with their families. )
part 3 (task 3)
1. which of the followings do you think the author is in favor of?  _______ .
a. think carefully of what you really need.
b. apply whatever you can to get whatever you want.
c. be content with who you are and what you have.
d. love what you are doing at present.
a.a b c     b. a c d     c. a b d     d.b c d
2. “when we…, when we stop to smell the roses, when we…, what we need automatically comes”.  it suggests that __________.
a. roses are good to smell
b. we should seize each golden minute
c. we should send more roses to our lovers
d. few people smell roses
   [設計說明] this step is intended to train the students’ ability to get the detailed information in a material and help the ss to understand some difficult words and sentences as well.
step 7  summary
first get the ss to do a true or false exercise. then put the true sentences together to form the summary of the text. however, the ss have to add some conjunctions to the text to make it flowing to read.
[設計說明] this step is intended to help the ss to go over the main information in the material and train their ability to make a material smooth by adding some conjunctions.