Unit 7 Live with disease教案
-- diagnosed with cancer, ‘i’ also have something to say to you. now let’s see what ‘i’ will say to you.
ii. while-reading
questions:
q1: how did cancer change the writer’s life?
q2: compare the writer’s situation with that of xiaohua. in what way are their experiences similar or different?
q3: do their experiences strike you?
q4: what have you learnt from them?
(get the students to put emphasis on some language points, especially how the writer expresses what he thinks. e.g.
i remember having an empty feeling in my stomach and thinking that my life was going to end.
there were days when i wished that i were dead so that i would not have to feel so sick.)
iii. writing
life is like a moon, sometimes round, sometimes not. we have happy times and also sad moments. if we draw a timeline, we will find it is not always straight. take myself for instance…
steps to follow
step one: think about your past days: what were some events that made you very happy? what made you very sad?
step two: draw a timeline of your life and mark the best times (the highs) and the worst times (the lows).
step three: talk about the happy and sad things to your partner, with reference to the timeline.
step four: choose one event, either happy or sad, which impresses you most. try to remember all the details of it, especially how it made you feel, what it made you think and why it is important in your life. prepare for writing it down.
step five: work out an outline of what you are going to write.
step six: read an example.
step seven: begin to write.
iv. homework
1. write an essay about an important event in your life.
the fifth period
goals:
1.to learn about some antonyms
2. to practice using some useful words and phrases in the text
teaching procedures:
i. lead-in
ask students some questions about xiaohua. on one hand, they can review what they have learned. on the other hand, teacher can lead them to the learning of the useful words and phrases in this way
q1. do you still remember xiaohua?
q2. what has happened to her?
q3. what is her attitude towards the disease?
(she is a brave girl. she is not discouraged by aids, instead, she tries her best to encourage and help other aids patients.)
ii. learn and practice using some antonyms
1) ask students to pay attention to the two words in bold and explain to them their meanings, pointing out that they have opposite meanings and this kind of words are called antonyms.