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Unit 11 Sad movies make me cry.
Section B (1a-1e)
Teaching Aims
· Language goals
Develop Ss’s abilities in predicting. Ss can predict the ending of The Shirt of a Happy Man.
· Key words and phrases
power, fame, search, even though
· Key sentences
1. The general finds a happy person with power and money.
2. What made the poor man so happy even though he had no power,
money or fame?
3. The general searched for three days and found a happy person.
Teaching Difficulties
Ss are able to share the ending of the story with their own words.
Teaching Aids
multimedia courseware or other realia that the T needs for teaching
Teaching Procedures
Tips
Step 1 Before-listening
视频吸引学生兴趣并帮助学生快速进入主题。学生看视频回答问题帮助学生复习之前所学知识。
学生通读文本,回答问题,巩固复习所学知识。
学生给故事编一个结局,引入听力部分,激发学生思考 。
Lead-in
Step1: Show Ss teaching goals.
T: Morning everyone. Today we will continue to talk about the story of the happy man, and I hope you can write an end for the story.
Step2: Ask Ss to watch a short video clip and answer the questions.
Q1: What is happiness?
Q2: What will make you happy?
(Before Ss answer the above two questions, ask them to talk about the video with their partners. )
Review
· T asks Ss to read the story and answer questions.
Q1: What’s the doctor’s advice?
Q2: What makes the prime minister unhappy?
Q3: What makes the banker unhappy?
Q4: What makes the singer unhappy?
Q5: What happened at last?
(When Ss are reading, T collects their pronunciation mistakes and leads Ss to read again. Ask Ss to answer the questions so as to check Ss understanding.)
1a
· Ask Ss to choose one possible ending the story in 1a.
T: Look at the possible endings to about the unhappy king in 1a. Do you think any of these is the right one? If so, which one?
(T don’t need to spend too much time on this step, because it’s just a lead-in.)
Answers will vary.
1b
· Ask Ss to discuss other possible endings for the story with their partner.
(T may want to highlight the fact that the story is fable, w