Teaching aim:

1. help the students understand the passage fully

2. help the students form a positive image of happiness and to live happily in their lives

3. train students’ ability of reading

Teaching importance:

1. understanding of the sturcture of the article

2. understanding of the story of Sang Lan

3. learn what happiness is

Teaching methods:

Listening, reading, speaking, discussing

Teaching aids:

Computer, TV presenter, Blackboard

Teaching procedure:

Step1 Lead-in (free talk)

1. What can bring you happiness in your daily life?

2. What is happiness to different people?

3. What is happiness to you (students)?

Step2 Fast-reading

Different understandings of happiness.

Read the first paragraph and find different understandings of happiness and fill in the blanks.

Step3 Reading

1. Free talk about disabled people.

When something unfortunate happened, what will they do?

Will those who are disabled give up the hope for happiness?

Do you know these disabled people?

Do you know who she is?-----Sang Lan.

2. Skimming and scanning

Skim the passage and answer the three questions above.

3. Listening (Line 11~19)

Question: Why was Sang Lan taken an example?

4. Careful reading

a) Before the accident (Line 20~38)

1. read the information about Sang Lan and finish the chart

2. accident happened (picture and description)

b) While staying in hospital (Line 39~53)

Quesitions:

1. Why did those famous people go to see her in the hospital? (picture showing)

2. What was her reaction when the doctor tole her that she would never again be a gymnast?

3. What was her secret to happiness?

c) Back to China ( Line 57~62)

Question:

What did Sang Lan do after she came back to China?

(some pictures about the activities that Sang Lan took part in)

Step4 Post-reading activities

1. Pair work

What adjectives can we use to describe Sang Lan?

2. Group work

Enjoy a short video and have a discussion----If the worst things happens, how to adapt to the new life and search for happiness?

3. Enjoy a poem about happiness

4. Funny picture about how to find happiness.

Step5 Summary

Step6 Homework

1. read the passage again and finish the exercises in the “Great English Class”

2. recite the story of Sang Lan ( before the accident, while in hospital, back to China)