Good friends教案1
survive
when airplanes crash (fall down), most people die. if, like chuck, they don’t die, they go on living, so i cangues that to survive means to go on living.
deserted
the text tells me that chuck lands on a deserted island. the text also tells me that there are no people on the island, so i can guess that a deserted place means a place where there are no people.
challenge
the text tells me that there are different challenges in chuck’s life-he has to collect water, hunt for food, and learn to survive without friends. i can guess that a challenge is something difficult that you have to do.
share
i know that i like to talk to my friends when i am happy or sad. if i am sad, talking to a friend makes me feel better. i can guess that to share happiness or sorrow means something like tell others about how i feel or make others understand how i feel. the dictionary says that share means to have the same interest or feeling as someone else.
unusual
i know that usual means something that happens all the time or normal. if i know that the prefix un- means not, i can guess that unusual means not normal or strange.
such as
a lucky pen and a diary are example of favourite objects, so i can guess that such as means for example or like
post reading
after reading the text a second time and doing the post reading (page 4 ), try to translate the whole piece sentence by sentence into correct chinese.
suggested answer to the post reading
1. he has to learn how to collect water, hunt for food, and make fire. more importantly, he has to learn to live without friends.
2. he has learnt a lot about himself when he is alone on the island. for example, he has come to realize that friendship is important in his life, that he hasn’t been a good friend, and that he should care more about his friends. ( he learns a lot about himself. he realizes that …)
3. open for discussion
4. discussing the question in groups. role- play, each student represents one of the four people and has to persuade the others that he or she should be given the parachute.
language study
page 4, 5
integrating skills
after reading all the three passages on pages 6-7, try to translate them sentence by sentence into correct chinese.
while translating and correcting the two sections reading & integrating skills, make as much comparison as you can between the english text and the chinese translation version and try to find out things as follows: