Unit 2 What is happiness to you?
s: the painful experience i had was my failure in one exam. i had never failed in any exams before. that time i felt frustrated and even lost heart in my study. after a talk with my teacher, i realized: no pains, no gains. i looked back upon my attitude towards study before. even the easiest things will become hard for you if you don’t try. so now i try my best to do everything. the results turn out that my effort is not in vain. i feel satisfied and happy.
t: good! you have expressed yourselves very clearly.
step ⅵ text analysis
help the students learn something about interview.
t: the text we learned today is an interview. can you tell me how to read a n interview?
s: first i will get the topic of the interview. and then i will read the questions and answers carefully.
t: good! let’s read a reading strategy to know how to read an interview. please open your books to page 19.
after several minutes.
t: can you tell me what an interview is?
s: an interview takes place when one person asks another person a series of questions on a topic.
t: when reading an interview, what is important for us to do?
s: it is important to carefully scan the first paragraph to find out the topic of the interview.
t: what should we do after that?
s: then we should carefully read each question and try to fully understand the question before reading the interviewee’s response.
t: if we want to get a better understanding of the topic, what should we do?
s: we should pay special attention to the answer to the question.
t: thank you, very good. in this class, we learned sang lan’s search for happiness and we also learned how to read an interview. everyone did a very good job. class is over.
step ⅶ homework
1. remember the new words and expressions.
2. retell the text.
the third period word study
teaching goals 教學目標
1. target language 目標語言
a. 重點詞匯和短語
excitement, happiness, frustration, sadness, fear, content, hot under the collar, over the moon, down in the dumps, on cloud nine, feel blue, fly off the handle
b. 重點句子
i was angrier than ever before.
i knew i had tried my hardest, and a feeling of contentment came over me.
i now realize that the boy who won made a better speech, but i did the best i could.
i am content with second place, because i know that i tried my hardest, and that is more important than winning.
2. ability goals 能力目標
enable the students to express their emotion properly.
3. learning ability goals 學能目標