Unit 2  What is happiness to you?

help the students learn how to use exact words and idioms to express their emotion.
teaching important and difficult points 教學重難點
how to express the emotion properly.
teaching methods 教學方法
asking and answering, and practicing.
teaching aids 教具準備
a projector.
teaching procedures && ways 教學過程與方式

step ⅰ revision
t: last period i asked you to remember the new words, now let’s have a dictation.
check the new words and ask the students to hand in their dictation paper.
t: next, let’s have a revision about the text. i’ll ask some of you to retell the story about sang lan.
s: sang lan, born in ningbo, china in 1981, began learning gymnastics when she was only six years old. she was a dedicated athlete, who had spent many years practicing her sport. her strongest event was the vault and she was the best in china. her teammates described her as energetic, happy and hard-working. she hoped to win the vault at the goodwill games. however, during a practice vault, the young girl made a small mistake. her mistake cost her ability to walk. while in hospital, she had many visitors. they all said she was in good spirits. and sang lan won the sympathy and admiration of people across the world with her good attitude and beautiful smile. now sang lan studies journalism and is also hosting a sports programme about the beijing olympics. with her positive thinking, she is a role model for young people nationwide!
t: excellent! thank you!

step ⅱ word power
in this step, the students will learn how to use words related to emotion and their adjective and noun forms. first, get the students to know what abstract noun is.
t: look at these words, among them, which can be experienced through our five senses (touch, taste, sight, hearing and smell)?
show the following words to the students:
excitement, training, preference, apple and water
s: apple and water.
t: yes, what about the other words?
s: we can’t experience them through five senses.
t: these words can be called abstract nouns. can you give the definition of an abstract noun?
s: an abstract noun is a noun that refers to an idea, an action, a general quality or something that we can’t experience through our five senses.
t: very good. please look at the word excitement. just now, we called i t an abstract noun. nouns related to emotion are generally abstract nouns. can you think about more nouns related to emotion?
ss: happiness, sadness, fear, frustration, horror, anger, contentment, fright, concern, jealousy, sorrow, anxiety, depression, loneliness, nervousness, disappointment.